AirTalk.org Aviation discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Siezed aircraft Goto page 1, 2  Next          AirTalk.org Forum Index -> Owning Airplanes View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Guest Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:46 pm    Post subject: Siezed aircraft Good day, I understand that the seized aircraft that are used for drug running are often sold or auctioned. I am particularly interested in Cessna 172's. Does anybody have any contact or website details on these aircraft? A collegue of mine who I have lost contact with bought a King Air from this source once. Back to top Steve Foley Guest Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:40 am    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft I typed 'seized aircraft' into google. The first page returned was www.treasury.gov/auctions/customs/planes.html <rbaviation (AT) webspeed (DOT) co.za> wrote in message news:1177699594.220463.146450 (AT) b40g2000prd (DOT) googlegroups.com... Quote: Good day, I understand that the seized aircraft that are used for drug running are often sold or auctioned. I am particularly interested in Cessna 172's. Does anybody have any contact or website details on these aircraft? A collegue of mine who I have lost contact with bought a King Air from this source once. Back to top Gig 601XL Builder Guest Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:45 am    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft rbaviation (AT) webspeed (DOT) co.za wrote: Quote: Good day, I understand that the seized aircraft that are used for drug running are often sold or auctioned. I am particularly interested in Cessna 172's. Does anybody have any contact or website details on these aircraft? A collegue of mine who I have lost contact with bought a King Air from this source once. Not a lot of 172s making the Columbia-Miami run. Have you Googled US Government Auctions? If in your search for this info some company offers to provide it for a fee (and they will), don't pay the fee and keep looking. Back to top Gig 601XL Builder Guest Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:19 am    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft Which is a Steve Foley wrote: Quote: I typed 'seized aircraft' into google. The first page returned was www.treasury.gov/auctions/customs/planes.html Which for some reason takes you to the Real property auction. Here's a link for the aircraft but there aren't any available right now. http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/gsaauctions/ Back to top Robert M. Gary Guest Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:27 am    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft On Apr 27, 11:46 am, rbaviat...@webspeed.co.za wrote: Quote: Good day, I understand that the seized aircraft that are used for drug running are often sold or auctioned. I am particularly interested in Cessna 172's. Does anybody have any contact or website details on these aircraft? I don't think 172's are very popular with drug runners. You may get a good deal on a really piece of junk 210 though. Drug runners don't do good annual inspections, AD compliance, etc. I heard that hundreds of mothballed 737's have been bought up by these guys now. -robert Back to top Jim Carter Guest Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:21 am    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft I'll bet that bird's a bitch to get into a 2500' unlit grass strip at night. -- Jim Carter Rogers, Arkansas "Robert M. Gary" <N7093v (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:1177709256.284973.264980 (AT) r30g2000prh (DOT) googlegroups.com... Quote: ... I heard that hundreds of mothballed 737's have been bought up by these guys now. -robert Back to top Jim Stewart Guest Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:43 am    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft Jim Carter wrote: Quote: I'll bet that bird's a bitch to get into a 2500' unlit grass strip at night. Yeah, but you only have to do it once... Back to top Robert M. Gary Guest Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:58 am    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft On Apr 27, 3:21 pm, "Jim Carter" <jim.car...@swbell.net> wrote: Quote: I'll bet that bird's a bitch to get into a 2500' unlit grass strip at night. -- Jim Carter Rogers, Arkansas "Robert M. Gary" <N70...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:1177709256.284973.264980 (AT) r30g2000prh (DOT) googlegroups.com... ... I heard that hundreds of mothballed 737's have been bought up by these guys now. -robert- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I don't know that they need to get into dark strips at night anymore. That's kind of the point. A lot of drug running is done in the open in South American today, they can use 737's. -robert Back to top Ron Natalie Guest Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:28 pm    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft Jim Stewart wrote: Quote: Jim Carter wrote: I'll bet that bird's a bitch to get into a 2500' unlit grass strip at night. Yeah, but you only have to do it once... If we pull this off we'll eat like kings... Back to top C J Campbell Guest Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:28 pm    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft On 2007-04-27 11:46:34 -0700, rbaviation (AT) webspeed (DOT) co.za said: Quote: Good day, I understand that the seized aircraft that are used for drug running are often sold or auctioned. I am particularly interested in Cessna 172's. Does anybody have any contact or website details on these aircraft? A collegue of mine who I have lost contact with bought a King Air from this source once. You kind of want to watch out for those. You might not get all the maintenance records or even an airworthiness certificate with the plane. -- Waddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor Back to top Douglas Paterson Guest Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:56 am    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft "Jim Carter" <jim.carter (AT) swbell (DOT) net> wrote in message news:zHuYh.19156$JZ3.5336 (AT) newssvr13 (DOT) news.prodigy.net... Quote: I'll bet that bird's a bitch to get into a 2500' unlit grass strip at night. ... I heard that hundreds of mothballed 737's have been bought up by these guys now. Matter of perspective.... :) http://img478.imageshack.us/my.php?image=landing26hk.jpg http://www.myflightblog.com/archives/000096.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1khgtadCIY (I have no connection to any of these sites/blogs, I just enjoyed watching/reading about it) -- Doug "Where am I to go/Now that I've gone too far?" -- Golden Earring, "Twilight Zone" (my email is spam-proofed; read the address and make the appropriate change to contact me) Back to top Jim Carter Guest Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:11 am    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft Holy Cow!!! Where was this taken? This has to be a taxiway doesn't it - no runway edge markings. -- Jim Carter Rogers, Arkansas "Douglas Paterson" <lastname.firstname (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote in message news:T6SdnTW6geprKa7bnZ2dnUVZ_qemnZ2d (AT) comcast (DOT) com... Quote: "Jim Carter" <jim.carter (AT) swbell (DOT) net> wrote in message news:zHuYh.19156$JZ3.5336 (AT) newssvr13 (DOT) news.prodigy.net... I'll bet that bird's a bitch to get into a 2500' unlit grass strip at night. ... I heard that hundreds of mothballed 737's have been bought up by these guys now. Matter of perspective.... :) http://img478.imageshack.us/my.php?image=landing26hk.jpg http://www.myflightblog.com/archives/000096.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1khgtadCIY (I have no connection to any of these sites/blogs, I just enjoyed watching/reading about it) -- Doug "Where am I to go/Now that I've gone too far?" -- Golden Earring, "Twilight Zone" (my email is spam-proofed; read the address and make the appropriate change to contact me) Back to top Douglas Paterson Guest Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:11 am    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft "Jim Carter" <jim.carter (AT) swbell (DOT) net> wrote in message news:BbTYh.19937$Um6.10186 (AT) newssvr12 (DOT) news.prodigy.net... Quote: Holy Cow!!! Where was this taken? This has to be a taxiway doesn't it - no runway edge markings. Rand Airport in South Africa (according to the accompanying text). And, no, that's the 50'-wide runway they're on. Do the math, that's less than 5' of pavement on either side of the mains...! :) -- Doug "Where am I to go/Now that I've gone too far?" -- Golden Earring, "Twilight Zone" (my email is spam-proofed; read the address and make the appropriate change to contact me) Back to top Mike Spera Guest Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 5:59 pm    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft rbaviation (AT) webspeed (DOT) co.za wrote: Quote: Good day, I understand that the seized aircraft that are used for drug running are often sold or auctioned. I am particularly interested in Cessna 172's. Does anybody have any contact or website details on these aircraft? A collegue of mine who I have lost contact with bought a King Air from this source once. As others have posted, 172s are not the airplane of choice for this mission. Also, these airplanes do not come with logbooks, may have not been maintained or operated "well", and may wind up being stolen and rebadged. None of this points to a good deal in my view. Aircraft purchased this way may be a good deal if they are to be used as parts. But, without logbooks that may make many parts untraceable and/or unusable. I have not seen a whole lot of discussion of the topic. Good Luck, Mike Back to top C J Campbell Guest Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Siezed aircraft On 2007-04-29 05:59:30 -0700, Mike Spera <mwspera (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> said: Quote: rbaviation (AT) webspeed (DOT) co.za wrote: Good day, I understand that the seized aircraft that are used for drug running are often sold or auctioned. I am particularly interested in Cessna 172's. Does anybody have any contact or website details on these aircraft? A collegue of mine who I have lost contact with bought a King Air from this source once. As others have posted, 172s are not the airplane of choice for this mission. Also, these airplanes do not come with logbooks, may have not been maintained or operated "well", and may wind up being stolen and rebadged. None of this points to a good deal in my view. Aircraft purchased this way may be a good deal if they are to be used as parts. But, without logbooks that may make many parts untraceable and/or unusable. I have not seen a whole lot of discussion of the topic. Good Luck, Mike If the government seized them, it owns them. The former owners have no claim on the aircraft, even if it was stolen. You cannot buy an aircraft at a government auction and then have some former owner come up and say it belongs to him. The title is clean at that point. Logs, documents, and maintenance are another matter. Whatever the reason, the government does seize 172s and other small planes and it auctions them off quite frequently. The idea that small planes are not used for smuggling is total nonsense. -- Waddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         AirTalk.org Forum Index -> Owning Airplanes All times are GMT Goto page 1, 2  Next Page 1 of 2   Jump to: Select a forum Aviation----------------alt.aviationAviation safety EnhancementPlanes, gliders and flying in AustraliaAviation et pilotage (Français)rec.aviationAviation (Aerobatics)Hot air, gas balloons and airshipsHang-gliding, paragliding, foot-launched flightAircraft Design & BuildingInstrument Flight RulesAviation (Classifieds)Military AircraftNaval AviationAviation (Miscellaneous Topics)Owning AirplanesAviators (General Discussions)Aviation related productsAircraft RestorationHelicopters and rotary wing aircraftsFlight SimulationSailplanesAviation (Students)Light aircraftFlying related activities in the UK Airports----------------alt.airportsEdinburgh Airport Glasgow Airport Humberside Airport Luton Airport Aberdeen Airport Glasgow Prestwick Airport  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group SEO toolkit © 2004-2006 webmedic.