[kingu]

For those who don’t want to dig, it’s the small Cesna jet which had registration lapse in January; odds are the paperwork is already filed and it is just moving at the typical glacial speed that things in the FAA move at.

[A CA Guy]

Oh, the article suggested it was the big fancy jet, not the multi-million dollar puddle jumper.

[editor-surveyor]

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When you buy a plane from a dealer, you can get tail numbers over the phone if it is a standard model.
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