Here’s the whole thing:
If you look at the website flightaware.com and search a tail number, in this case N5343M, you will see the N number belongs to a SR20 that at one time was registered to Stephen C. Paddock of Mesquite, Texas and Henderson, Nevada (Our Shooter). You will also see that it is currently registered to a company out of Roanoke, Virginia named VOLANT LLC. A company that works with the “Defense/Intelligence” community per their website. Wait it gets better. The registration is listed as active. Don’t worry that it shows the last flight for the Aircraft three years ago. They only show the flight when a flight plan is filed.
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Flightware pulls their data directly from the FAA registration database, so it should be accurate correct? Now the interesting part. If you go to faa.gov and put the same tail number into their search engine (N5343M), you will find that the FAA says that the N number is inactive. The last registration was to a Cessna 152 (a different aircraft) to some guy in San Diego, California. There is no mention of the current registration by VOLANT LLC or Stephen Paddock.
The FAA database is updated everyday business at midnight. So, it looks like someone either scrubbed the FAA database and forgot or didn’t know that Flightware posted the same info. Maybe someone at Flightware is playing a big trick on everyone and putting false info in their database.
All I know is that the name of Stephen C. Paddock now has something in common with a Spook Outfit. Very interesting!
Interestingly, if you click the registration link on that page you get the page with the SR-20 info. The registration page has a link for its data source, which leads to the FAA page with inconsistent data.
But unless flightaware was hacked, it got its data on the flight from the FAA at some point.
self ping
I hope you took screen shots.