Originally Posted by
MLHeliwrench
So Russians are buying N reg planes and using US companies for training (Flight Safety is owned by Berkshire Hathaway). How is Russian money paying for this?
training can be done on the aircraft for a type rating, however, that requires TSA approval, under the foreign student program, The requirement is for the training, not the checking, if they already had a license and type, but pretty sure that given they are operating from a criminal state, that is currently conducting war crimes, are doing illegal operations, which may well include the basis that the approvals to fly out of Thailand, India etc were based on, then not sure that is of any concern to them. They may find new adventures around Avdiivka in the near future though, without the need for their licenses that should be a question from ICAO as to how the Russian CAA permitted such an operation to depart, and enter and abuse other ICAO airspace. (given Vlads status on international law, that is probably not on his horizon either, and ICAO has all of the interest in compliance of a bloated bureaucracy anywhere).
It is not always illegal to do an operation that colours close to charter, but these clowns would not likely be interested in any compliance to the ICAO norms of Annex 6 Part I.
Shame, that was a nice DA10, MSN 128 IIRC.
Looking at the registration from the FAA, it was registered with the FAA in August 22 and de registered in September 23. I had info on it in July 22 on what would have been the temporary FAA registration pink-slip/flywire. It is curious that the registration has been reserved still by the same DE entity, so it may be that the plane was never sold to Russia, this may be a lease of the aircraft, in which case, good luck getting the rubles out of Russia. The earlier owners were in Morocco, and they had a nice fleet of Falcon 10 (incl MSN 120) and Falcon 20's. Their planes were pretty nicely kept by the records they provided.