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By Daniel Baxter |
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August 31, 2010 - The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) is calling for a review of the government’s process for obtaining, using and sharing aircraft registration information in light of the events that took place with the founders of the King School, John and Martha King.
On Saturday John
and Martha King filed an IFR flight plan and flew in their Cessna 172
aircraft, N50545, from
Upon landing the
King’s were instructed taxi their aircraft to the hanger one. Upon exiting the
aircraft, the couple was stormed by the |
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What the
King’s did not know was earlier in the day federal authorities were
monitoring flights and checking aircraft tail numbers and that the
King’s aircraft came up as a stolen aircraft when they filed their
IFR flight plan. In 2002, a Cessna 150 with the same tail number
N50545 was reported stolen.
However, what
authorities did not know was that tail number had been canceled by the
FAA and reassigned on January 13, 2009, and that the King’s leased
aircraft was owned by the Cessna Aircraft Company. The reassignment of
the tail number was never communicated to other government agencies and
the “We believe there is an urgent need for the creation of a joint government-industry group that can expeditiously conduct a top-to-bottom review of the process to ensure that incidents such as this one never occur in the future,” said NBAA President and CEO Ed Bolen. “We recognize that law enforcement officials need to have a reliable source of up-to-date aircraft information to prevent illegal activities,” Bolen continued. “At the same time, we believe the government process for using the data appears woefully inadequate. |
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