tell me your tail number and I will tell you why this happened
It's happening all over France, we had a crew spend 5 hours in the aircraft getting audited in Nice, and this was on a brand new French built aircraft operating FAR135...... They even weighed every single piece of baggage to check against the load manifest.
As we also operate some aircraft under FAR91, we got a nice letter from the local regulators stating that the aircraft are not for hire or reward, they are operated for the owner or his guests!
Have you ever had to deal with US Custom/Immigration?
Yep, found them to be extremely polite, pleasant and incredibly helpful. Maybe I got them on a good day.
(Airport was KEWR)
Mutt