Here is the link to the flight: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a34791 Here is another link: https://www.flightradar24.com/N310HS/2ac8e93d
Flight pattern is tight lines back and forth over Quantico. Just landed in Manassas. Manassas airport has all kinds of "interesting" flights.
Registration info: https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N310HS AIRCRAFT GUARANTY CORP TRUSTEE
Here is the link to the flight: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a34791 Here is another link: https://www.flightradar24.com/N310HS/2ac8e93d
Flight pattern is tight lines back and forth over Quantico. Just landed in Manassas. Manassas airport has all kinds of "interesting" flights.
Registration info: https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N310HS AIRCRAFT GUARANTY CORP TRUSTEE
U.S. Government Indicts Aircraft Title, Trust Company Owner by Matt Thurber - March 4, 2021, 6:20 PM
The indictment of a well-known owner of an aviation title company on various charges raises an important issue regarding the responsibility borne by owner trustees when it comes to helping a non-U.S. citizen purchase an aircraft and register it in the U.S.
Debra Lynn Mercer-Erwin, owner of Wright Brothers Aircraft Title (WBAT) and Aircraft Guaranty Corp. (AGC), was arrested in Oklahoma on Dec. 18, 2020, and was subsequently moved to Texas. On February 24, a U.S. grand jury indictment was unsealed in the case of the U.S. against Mercer-Erwin; her daughter Kayleigh Moffett, who was an officer of the companies; and six others. The indictment includes drug charges, money laundering, export violations, and aircraft registration violations.
According to the indictment, AGC acted as trustee and registered “thousands” of aircraft on behalf of foreign owners, which by itself is legal. For some unexplained reason, the indictment points out that the aircraft were registered “in Onalaska Texas, an East Texas town without an airport.” Whether or not the registered address has an airport has no bearing on how trustee-registered aircraft are handled, but this seemingly extraneous information caught the attention of reporters at WFAA TV in Dallas, which wrote and produced stories about AGC and WBAT that resulted in an investigation by federal prosecutor Ernest Gonzalez and Mercer-Erwin’s subsequent arrest and the indictment.
The problem wasn’t that AGC acted as a trustee but that “defendants circumvent United States laws and regulations by placing N numbers in the hands of drug traffickers and prohibited foreign nationals,” according to the indictment.
Specifically, the indictment alleged: “First, the defendants violate FAA and Department of Commerce regulations to register aircraft with the United States while concealing the aircraft’s true ownership and exportation. Second, when law enforcement seizes a registered aircraft laden with drugs, the defendants deregister or otherwise transfer ownership of the aircraft. Finally, the defendants participated in a series of bogus aircraft sales transactions in order to conceal the movement of illegally obtained funds.”