Have you lost your aircraft recently?
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Have you lost your aircraft recently?
Just heard part of the news that police are all over an aircraft at Wollongong Airport. Landed about a week ago and has been abandoned.
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Police raid plane at Albion Park airport
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Dr Oakie, it was ferried to PH and left there. So the map showing it DCT to doffs is misleading. It has possibly been VFR to all sorts of places and not shown up on Flight Aware.
What happened after the ferry flight was completed ….who knows.
Be funny if the cops only took 35kg of interior insulation out…..
Although you have to wonder, that is a lot of police attention for nothing.
What happened after the ferry flight was completed ….who knows.
Be funny if the cops only took 35kg of interior insulation out…..
Although you have to wonder, that is a lot of police attention for nothing.
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Hey Leafie, you must have a really good network of friends……I am not a Bookfacer so I have no friends 
But the ferry job was IFR to PH and after that I have no idea, that was all that I can tell from FA website and the available info on the Ferry.
How do you get to Coffs in a Merlin in one leg
I am sure there is a good explanation for it all somewhere.
But the ferry job was IFR to PH and after that I have no idea, that was all that I can tell from FA website and the available info on the Ferry.
How do you get to Coffs in a Merlin in one leg
I am sure there is a good explanation for it all somewhere.
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550 pph 4343 Lb FOB = @ F200 = 7.8 hours :: Safe 7.0 hours (420 minutes) @ 264 TAS = 1848 nms ROA ~ Nil wind. D= 1902 (-1848) = 54 nms short. WC + 10 knots GS 272 = 1904 nms ROA. Give it a ferry tank and 20 knots of tailwind, F250 Perth – Coffs (West to East) – piece of cake. Good axe is the Merlin...
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An identity who has featured on this very forum regularly in the past was mentioned by name on the ABC news a moment ago as a leader of the consortium that owns the thing...
I detect an interesting story here.
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So they are saying the aircraft flew more than half way across Australia
and landed without being noticed or just without clearing customs ?
and landed without being noticed or just without clearing customs ?
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I reckon it has been in Broome or somewhere or Darwin and cleared customs. I doubt that it just arrived in WOL, but it could have been full of anything and customs either missed it or were told to miss it so the cops could track it some more.
There will be more to this than the ABC can figure out from a few google searches.
Either that or it is a complete stuff up of a spectacular nature.
There will be more to this than the ABC can figure out from a few google searches.
Either that or it is a complete stuff up of a spectacular nature.