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Busted Again! Another American “Mystery Plane”
Posted on July 15, 2014 by Daniel Hopsicker
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At the heart of the story of Australia's current experience with the latest American-registered drug plane busted overseas is that this is not just another American "mystery plane."

It's a "stealth" mystery plane.




Another American “mystery plane” was busted last week, this time in Australia, at the Illawarra regional airport in the seaside city of Wollongong, an hour south of Sydney.

Police seized a cache of 35 kilos of illegal drugs found on an American-registered Swearingen Merlin twin–engine turbo-prop during an initial search, sources told ABC Australia, and said one local man, already known to police, had been arrested.

The drug seized went unspecified, but speculation focused on heroin.

The news sent local media in Australia into a three-day tizzy. One newspaper published seventeen separate photographs showing police swarming over the aircraft from a variety of different angles, to no particular effect.

“Mystery plane raided: Pilot flew across Pacific, left it in Philippines” reported ABC Australia.

“Mystery surrounds THREE DAY police ‘drug’ raid on 43-year-old light plane” headlined London’s Daily Mail.

America's 'mystery planes' are the Foo fighters of the 21st Century
The notion of life as a series of “mysteries” which may never be solved may be replacing explanations citing “conspiracy” as the default rationale for unexplained events.

In American general aviation, examples seem to be everywhere:

“Crash Jet Had Air of Mystery,” headlined as New York Post story on an American-registered Gulfstream II luxury jet from St Petersburg caught carrying four tons of cocaine in the Yucatan in 2007.

“How the U.S.-registered Gulfstream ended up in the hands of suspected drug traffickers,” reported the AP, covering the same story, “remains a mystery.”

America's “mystery planes” are the “Foo Fighters” of the 21st Century. Investigating them is like chasing balls of light. Still, it may be possible to answer a few of the many unanswered questions on the U.S. side of the current imbroglio in Australia.

The so-far shadowy American owners of the Swearingen Merlin (N224HR), who began the whole chain of events when they exported the plane to Australia, should not be sleeping comfortably at night.

But, of course, as we all know, they are.

A Delaware State of Mind
David Baddams, owner and chief pilot of Snow Goose International, the Australian aircraft ferrying company contracted to move the plane, is a retired Lieutenant Commander in the Australian Air Force and Top Gun-type fighter pilot extraordinaire.

A post on the Snow Goose's Facebook page revealed some details of the plane’s journey around the edge of the Pacific. When the controversy erupted, the company issued a press release, declaiming responsibility after delivering the plane to its destination, which, the release said, was not Australia, but the Philippines.

So Snow Goose's contract with "Oregonian Aero Club LLC," the company says, was to ferry the plane from the US to the Philippines."

Leave that aside for the moment. The big question is: Just who, exactly, is the Oregonian Aero Club?

The "Oregonian Aero Club" is incorporated in secretive-to-the-max Delaware. So the rub will be in finding out who–or what–is behind the Oregonian Aero Club.

Ol' Dave Baddams offers no clue, though we're sure he knows. On this, as well as on the 'delivered in the Philippines' nonsense, we suspect he's selling wolf cookies to his American cousins, and to his Australian brethren as well.

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Corporations may be people, too, as our Republican friends are fond of saying. But in Delaware, they're gods. When people get pulled over for driving erratically, say, or shooting up a bank, their identities become public records.
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