The Aircraft owned by nobody?
Scuttlebutt has it the aircraft does not belong to the DRC government but to the late Lauren Kabila who passed on in 2001 (I think). And we thought our CAA were slow with registration changes!
Here's a thought - can an aircraft be owned by a dead person? Surely the C of A is not valid - in the case of bad times, who does one sue? what about maintenance oversight ( joke!) and, if the owner has shuffled off, who carries the insurance?
CAA, is this enough of a hint to take a look at the engines and paperwork as they do to us?