Originally Posted by
zambonidriver
I don't see how any of those planes can re-enter any registry even if repossessed. That ship has sailed.
In reality the difficult problem is repossess the airframes. The rest, that is to say, re-enter a registry would be some work, but it is certainly doable.
Take as an exemple N1619A .
-The aircraft was some years at the Brasilian (flag) carrier that went out of business. Maintenance records disappered, maybe conveniently, because many maintenance actions that were done, were latter discovered to be dodgy to say the least ...
-'Sorry', but without those records we can not accept that airframe in our registry.
-Register the aircraft in Africa for a year. Do the maintenance schedule during that time, and provide records of it.
-The aircraft is then accepted at the State that initially, and understandably, had said no.