Help finding aircraft registration information (Menendez)

FAA ^ | January 31, 2013 | sloop

[sloop]

Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey says an "oversight" is the reason it took him until January to reimburse a campaign donor for flights taken aboard the donor's plane in 2010.

[sloop]

I am curious about the registration information of the aircraft Menendez traveled on to visit his prostitutes. We know he eventually paid for the flights, but the aircraft owner might not be able to accept payments under FAA regulations. I will post the information i have found below.

The "doctor" was Salomon Melgen. The FAA has no planes registered under his name but carriage_hill found the companies he owns:

http://www.dandb.com/businessdirectory/search/?type=cos&Price_ID=6560&Product_ID=6052&requestType=addtocart&keyword=Salomon+Melgen&city=Port+St+Lucie&state=FL

This one:

Drm Med Assist, LLC 2521 Metrocentre Blvd West Palm Beach, FL 334073106

owns a Bombardier Challenger 600 (made in 1981) similar to this one:

http://www.omnijet.com/aircraftpages/chal6001049/index.html

Pictures of the aircraft:

http://flightaware.com/photos/view/681170-b141d9dc2ea279ec043fb5b2cbe674f8d5b7949b/aircrafttype/C600

where it has been the last few days (yeah - back to the Dominican Republic):

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N900LG/history/20130122/0010Z/MDLR/KPBI

This is the FAA registration information for the aircraft:

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=900LG

It does not tell me if the plane is registered to operate under Part 91 or Part 135 of the FAA regulations. Accepting payment for a flight operating under Part 91 is not allowed. (I know there are a few exceptions.) It is allowed under Part 135 (charter) operations.

My guess is this "doctor" operates under Part 91 and the Menendez payments could cause the kiddie diddling "doctor" some problems.

I think i can get that information here if I pay for it and wait weeks:

http://aircraft.faa.gov/e.gov/ND/

The FAA registration department said their south Florida Flight Standards District Office might be able to help me but they are closed for the weekend. 954-641-6000

Moving from operations under Part 91 into Part 135 causes tons of expense, time and tax implications. I suspect violating the FAA FARs would carry a fine and possible loss of his certificate.

Does anyone have access to a database that will tell us its registration?

I have called the FAA, DOT, NTSB and even the IRS. Please help if you can.

[Doogle]

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/StateCounty_Inquiry.aspx

[sloop]

does that tell me what far he is operating under?

[MHGinTN]

We now live in the democrips America. No matter how damning the evidence, degenerate democrips scum like Menendez are at most wrist slapped. The Republicants haven’t the ablls to go after their fellow criminals.

[Doogle]

incoming

[Da Coyote]

The senate is slime.

Period.

[Doogle]

if you can get a photo of the actual AC....W/tail number

[sloop]

i can’t do anything about menendez - but we can sic the faa on the plane owner and cause him a ton of money and grief

IF that is the plane and IF he violated faa regulations

[sloop]

all that is listed above

with the links

[sloop]

menendez MUST pay for the flights - ethics rules

the plane owner CAN'T accept payment

if my theory is correct

[freedom4ever]

This lists it as a transport if the N number is 900LG. Go to Landings.com and search FARs at the bottom of the page

N-number : N900LG
Aircraft Serial Number : 1036
Aircraft Manufacturer : CANADAIR LTD
Model : CL-600 CHALLENGER
Engine Manufacturer : HONEYWELL
Model : ALF 502 SER
Aircraft Year : 1981
Owner Name : DRM MED ASSIST LLC
Owner Address : 2521 METROCENTRE BLVD
WEST PALM BEACH, FL, 334073106
Type of Owner : Corporation
Registration Date : 17-Jul-2009
Airworthiness Certificate Type : Standard
Approved Operations : Transport

http://www6.landings.com/cgi-bin/nph-search_nnr?pass=193800885&&nnumber=900LG

http://www.landings.com/evird.acgi$pass*193800885!_h-www.landings.com/_landings/pages/regulations.html

[sloop]

is it operating under part 91 or part 135?

[Textide]

The owner can fly whomever he likes on his plane under part 91. If he charges them to fly, then he needs some sort of Air Carrier certificate from the FAA (135, 121, 125).

A corporation can own planes, hire pilots as employees to fly those planes, fly anyone willing to get on, and operate Part 91; so long as they don’t charge.

[MHGinTN]

John Conyers, Tom Harkin, Patrick Leahy, Diane Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Congressmen Bonoir, Hastings, Lewis, Waters, and a long list of degenerate criminal democrips (Saundra Levy ring a bell?) show that justice is in fact not just where democrips are in question. Charley Rangel is probably laughing at your efforts, were he reading this thread. But don’t give up ... this might be the one in a thousand democrip criminals actually cornered beyond his fellow criminals abiling him out with a wrist slap. That great re-elected democrip, William Jefferson, was after all held to a small degree culpable for his criminality even if Mayor Bradley in the sewer of DC was re-embraced by the dead soul democrat voters.

[sloop]

i know

it ALL boils down to this

is he operating under part 91 or part 135

MENENDEZ PAID - that we know

[sloop]

oops - and one caveat - do those flights and payments fall into a part 91 exception

[Textide]

He would be operating legally under Part 91. I think you’re barking up the wrong tree. The problem would be the law that compelled him to reimburse a donor for the flight. That law has nothing to do with the FAA.

[PA Engineer]

I also wonder if this is taxable compensation under the part 91 exception. If you are correct about the 91 exception, then he was committing tax fraud.

[sloop]

so why would anyone bother with the hassle of 135?

[Textide]

Part 135 exists to make money flying the public around to negotiated destinations with negotiated prices. All of that is done prior to the flight and is well regulated.

In this case, you have a donor wooing a congresscritter by giving a gift; just as if you bought him dinner. Some sort of campaign finance or ethics violation was feared and so he reimbursed the gift.

I’m not saying the guy is clean, but I don’t think this is an FAR violation.