Posted on 04/19/2016 3:40:07 PM PDT by Let's Roll
asking or telling??
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.
No, it isn’t. The Trump 757 is fine. This article is about a Trump Cessna. Has nothing to do with the jet he’s using to campaign.
It usually is grounded, between flights. They don’t leave it up in the air.
The aircraft in question is a Cessna executive jet, not the 757 Trump has been regularly campaigning in.
His 757 is fine along with 3 helicopters, another nothing burger
Records kept with the Federal Aviation Administration show the aircraft’s registration lapsed on Jan. 31. Laura J. Brown, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration, confirmed that the plane’s registration was not in good standing and said the owner had not renewed it.
The F.A.A. could also fine or assess other penalties against the owner, the operator or both; Mr. Trump owns the plane through a limited liability company. Though it is unlikely that the agency would seek the maximum penalty, flying with no registration could result in a civil penalty of up to $27,500, a criminal fine of up to $250,000 and imprisonment for up to three years, it said.
Regardless of the story, I’ll bet the crew managing the B-75 have their hands full scheduling maintenance so as not to interfere with Mr. Trumps schedule. They’ve been putting a lot of hours on the bird the last 6 months.
Something about it not being registered.
Sounds like bureaucratic b.s.
Maybe they’re not flying it?
Anyone who works around jets or other aircraft can tell you of numerous trivial seeming things that can ground one. This is a 100% meaningless story, except for one thing.
It tells us someone is going through every single thing Trump has registered in his name, desperately hoping they can find dirt. They are crawling through the FAA registry now. It’s really kind of creepy and exactly why DC and its professional election consultant class is so disgusting.
Oh, the article suggested it was the big fancy jet, not the multi-million dollar puddle jumper.
Dream on. It does not have to be registered if it is not being flown.
Yeah, it’s when they ground unexpectedly that it’s news.
See:
https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/aircraft_certification/aircraft_registry/reregistration/
Mr. Trump often presses the 1997 Cessna 750 Citation X, which was designed to seat eight people, into action. It has made hundreds of flights since he announced his plan to seek the Republican nomination in June 2015, according to F.A.A. records reviewed by The New York Times.
Dozens of those flights were made after Jan. 31, when the registration expired. The plane flew as recently as Monday, when it was used to transport Team Trump between La Guardia Airport and Buffalo for a campaign event on the eve of the New York primary. On Friday, it flew to Plattsburgh, N.Y., and to Hartford for rallies in those cities, according to radio transmissions broadcast by the plane that were archived on a flight data website and reviewed by The Times.
The price of flying privately does not come cheap. The Trump campaign has paid a company that Mr. Trump owns more than $3 million for campaign-related travel since he announced his candidacy.
The price to register an aircraft, however, does come cheap: It costs only $5, and the registration is valid for three years.
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