feh...
Posted on 04/19/2016 5:33:24 PM PDT by Spunky
Over the past several months, Donald J. Trump has crisscrossed the country making dozens of campaign stops in places like Sioux City, Iowa, and Jackson, Miss., often in his sleek Cessna jet. There is just one hitch: The plane’s registration is expired.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Beautiful plane and a guaranteed oversight or paperwork snafu.
“I am not a Trump supporter, but the FAA records are often slow to update”
So true.
It even says on the FAA site if a registration application was mailed, it could have already been processed.
FAA is not known for being on top of the paperwork, though they constantly threaten pilots about it.
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?MailProcess=1&nNumberTxt=N725DT
Why don't you read the article to learn what they are talking about?
To many fly by night Freepers around here.
The FAA site tells all that it’s best to apply for re-registration five weeks before it expires.
That speaks volumes about the lag time.
Right now the FAA says they are processing documents received as of March 8th. Who knows what they truly have going on?
https://www.faa.gov/licenses_certificates/aircraft_certification/aircraft_registry/
“Secret Service agents wrestled the plane to the ground . . . .”
Looks like it’s the screwup of an AIRCRAFT MANAGEMENT COMPANY
NATL REGISTERED AGENTS INC 160 GREENTREE DR STE 101
Registrant City DOVER Registrant State DE
http://www.aviationdb.com/Aviation/Aircraft/7/N725DT.shtm
The aircraft is owned by DJT OPERATIONS CX LLC, but the registration goes to the above, which is likely a management co., IMO.
RINO is bad enough for me, but I feel your pain.
Possibly if we’re talking about the Citation X. As mentioned by smarter pilots than myself.
Runways and taxiways may not be able to handle an aircraft the weight of a 757. Also remember that some important bizjet airports, KTEB and KASE in particular, have size restrictions on wingspan and weights to keep larger aircraft out.
The far greater speed of the Citation X, its higher service ceiling, combined with its better airport access means that Trump could see huge time savings on many flights, especially transcons. The 757 will provide greater comfort on longer flights (and I believe his has aux tanks to give it considerably longer legs than the Citation), but at a huge cost in time on shorter ones.
A Citation X is no slouch, needing well under 6000 ft at MTOW. There are plenty of small or even medium size GA airports where parking space for an airplane the size of a 757 would be an issue. Depending on which ramp and FBO you taxiid to, KORL would be a tight fit on the ramp. I also know that a 757’s engine’s have clearance issues with the runway lights, the wings would overhang other taxi ways which could cause traffic flow issues. Also, not all FBO’s will be equipped to fully service a 757. There are FBO’s at KORL class airport that can’t provide ground power or air start to an aircraft that size, so better hope you don’t have an APU issue.
In essence, this is probably going to be an FAA issue, not a Trump LLC C issue....
and so it goes.
“The FAA site tells all that it’s best to apply for re-registration five weeks before it expires.”
Like with sleeping FAA controllers there is a long lead time on getting stuff done!
This is what it says:
"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 F.A.A. warned Mr. Trump that the Cessna’s registration was set to expire, records show. On Dec. 1, DJT Operations CX L.L.C., the limited liability company owned by Mr. Trump that operates the Cessna, received a “final notice” from the F.A.A., according to records reviewed by The Times."
feh...
OMG! An expired registration! Whatever will I do? The world is over because a f***ing registration has lapsed. Obviously anyone who would do this is Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Tsar Nikolas, Otto Von Bismark, Vlad the Impaler and Mister Rogers all rolled into one! OMGOMGOMG!!!!!
Someone a few threads back was just complaining that he hadn’t seen reasoned political argument opposing Cruz in weeks on the FR. Pot meet kettle.
Well spunk, I guess it’s a paperwork error by his company or FAA over $5 paperwork because obviously the plane was maintained and received all other clearances to fly.
Maybe you’d like him imprisoned or the plane shot down?
Does this mean he has been flying illegal?
Or does it just mean he is flying on temporary tags?
I don’t have an aircraft, I don’t know what this even means.
A Cessna? I thought he was going around in a Boeing.
This is too much. Having a private server for classified national communications, or stretching definition of natural birth to qualify for the presidency are one thing; but a lapse in registering transportation?? No! This is really going too far!!
The NYT clowns don’t know the diff between a Cessna and a Boeing.
The difference has to do with just which candidate is getting a daily, increasing, anal exam.
My guess is that the plane’s registration might have expired yesterday and someone filed this story at 12:01 AM once they had done something to delay the processing of the renewal.
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