Posted on 08/03/2013 9:58:44 PM PDT by Stayfree
The Federal Aviation Administration is missing key information on who owns one-third of the 357,000 private and commercial aircraft in the U.S. — a gap the agency fears could be exploited by terrorists and drug traffickers.The records are in such disarray that the FAA says it is worried that criminals could buy planes without the government's knowledge, or use the registration numbers of other aircraft to evade new computer systems designed to track suspicious flights. It has ordered all aircraft owners to re-register their planes in an effort to clean up its files.About 119,000 of the aircraft on the U.S. registry have "questionable registration" because of missing forms, invalid addresses, unreported sales or other paperwork problems, according to the FAA. In many cases, the FAA cannot say who owns a plane or even whether it is still flying or has been junked.
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As I often read a post assuming it is current: Just a cautionary note that this happened 2.5 years ago.
Have they tried looking for them at ... airports? Maybe that’s an idea too radical for them.
Mine`s still up in the tree.
Not to worry, Citizens. Your health care data will be securely in the control of your government. Please allay your groundless fears.
I knew that when I posted it, but I would bet a bundle that the FAA has accomplished very little in updating the registration list. It is like the guns I registered in the early sixties, I have move over twenty times since then and even the NRA could not keep track of my address changes as a Life Member and I bet the ATF still lists my address as of 1963.
I sure hope they are at least keeping close track of the heavies.
Some kook with an old 707 full of fuel could cause a lot of pain. :-(
Keeping track of planes is a very legitimate use of government resources... I certainly wish them well.
FO Mr. G man.
You don’t need to know every damned detail about everything, under the rubric of “it’s for the chillun” and Duh Fuhrers Homeland Security crappola...
LoL :-)
So they’ve lost planes, have no idea who has remained in the U.S. after their visa expired, don’t know where most of the 30 million who came across the border from Mexico illegally are, and don’t know how many people currently on the Social Security lists are actually dead. It’s just amazing.
I ordered a small U.S./Israel flag pin a couple of months ago from Israel as a gift for a friend. Fedex notified me when it was shipped and at any time of the day I could check on-line as to its location. They were able to keep track of one very small package coming from a foreign country yet the government can’t keep track of something as large as an airplane.
He said "some kook", not "some homo".
Most of them are most likely private planes that their pilots might fly once a year or so.
"Consolidated Information for all FedEx Companies
Workforce
More than 300,000 team members worldwide
Average Daily Volume
More than 10 million shipments for express, ground, freight and expedited delivery services
Service Area
More than 220 countries and territories, including every address in the United States"
All started by a USMC pilot and his term paper from his college days. (Man, have I been a slacker!)
The horror!
No big deal. Lots of fighter planes and bombers have been secretly re-assigned to county sheriffs and police departments.
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