Plane Seized In Drug Bust
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Plane Seized In Drug Bust
Wouldn't be a Piper Cub, would it?
Plane seized in multi-million-dollar drug bust - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Police have seized a light plane and arrested 13 people as part of a multi-million-dollar drug bust.
Twenty five properties were raided across Victoria yesterday, mostly in Ballarat and Melbourne.
A joint taskforce of Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police has charged 13 people. Nine of them will appear in the Ballarat court today.
The raids were the culmination of a 15-month investigation that has netted assets of $4.5 million, including two houses, a light plane and luxury cars.
Yesterday police seized more than 2.5 kilograms of drugs, a stolen motorcycle, firearms and equipment to make counterfeit money.
They say the crime syndicate moved drugs throughout Australia.
Four of the men charged could face 25 years' jail.
Twenty five properties were raided across Victoria yesterday, mostly in Ballarat and Melbourne.
A joint taskforce of Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police has charged 13 people. Nine of them will appear in the Ballarat court today.
The raids were the culmination of a 15-month investigation that has netted assets of $4.5 million, including two houses, a light plane and luxury cars.
Yesterday police seized more than 2.5 kilograms of drugs, a stolen motorcycle, firearms and equipment to make counterfeit money.
They say the crime syndicate moved drugs throughout Australia.
Four of the men charged could face 25 years' jail.
Plane seized in multi-million-dollar drug bust - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Originally Posted by VH-XXX
What makes you say it was a Piper Cub?
I heard it was a Cessna. All aircraft in the news are Cessna's these day.
I heard it was a Cessna. All aircraft in the news are Cessna's these day.
eg: Cessna Warrior or a Piper C172??
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Sunny must have some inside info!
PS: Light aircraft have always been called Cessnas in the media...
PS: Light aircraft have always been called Cessnas in the media...
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How about hypothetically (hopefully this doesn't get locked), if you were going to use an aircraft to transport some kind of contraban, what would it be?
Let's say Abalone - SuperCub with Tundra tyres. Land almost anywhere the police chopper can. Actually you'd just buy a chopper wouldn't you.
Drugs. RV10? *Moderately* fast, inconspicuous and usually driven by retirees, so therefore low profile and unlikely to be noticed. Good payload.
CriCri. Small and almost undetectable by radar. Small payload. Hard to find pilots brave enough.
Let's say Abalone - SuperCub with Tundra tyres. Land almost anywhere the police chopper can. Actually you'd just buy a chopper wouldn't you.
Drugs. RV10? *Moderately* fast, inconspicuous and usually driven by retirees, so therefore low profile and unlikely to be noticed. Good payload.
CriCri. Small and almost undetectable by radar. Small payload. Hard to find pilots brave enough.
The 'light plane', probable value $60k, ranks ahead of the Maserati or Lamborghini - probable value $300k each.
Don't you just love the prioritisation than a degree in journalism endows upon the 4th estate ?
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Don't you just love the prioritisation than a degree in journalism endows upon the 4th estate ?
happy days,
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How about hypothetically (hopefully this doesn't get locked), if you were going to use an aircraft to transport some kind of contraban, what would it be?
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Yep, make it a Piper Cherokee or similar, it would be reported by the police and media as a Cessna. You would never be found.
I can recall a detective case some years ago in Africa, the British police arrived and were searching high and low for a Pajero. It was a week or so before they realised that in Kenya all 4WD SUV vehicles are referred to as Pajero.
I can recall a detective case some years ago in Africa, the British police arrived and were searching high and low for a Pajero. It was a week or so before they realised that in Kenya all 4WD SUV vehicles are referred to as Pajero.
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Was offered a C210. And yes my own !! Freehold a few years ago.
A few light packages Adelaide, Alice, Kunnunurra. Plus $ 5000 a week. Thats really tempting when your living in sh*t. Sorry ! dosen,t make up for dropping that soap. !
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A few light packages Adelaide, Alice, Kunnunurra. Plus $ 5000 a week. Thats really tempting when your living in sh*t. Sorry ! dosen,t make up for dropping that soap. !
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Probably one of those Cessna Learjets.
It would be the ideal aircraft as in 40 years in the aviation industry, I have not seen one.
But the media seem to find them a lot and Google certainly know about them.
It would be the ideal aircraft as in 40 years in the aviation industry, I have not seen one.
But the media seem to find them a lot and Google certainly know about them.
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If its a light aircraft its a Cessna all other aircraft are Jumbos. Anything thats not a cessna is Qanats.
Easy to find them poor enough.
Hard to find pilots brave enough.
