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Something is odd with the plane situation.
They showed 3 planes but I had a lot of trouble with this video and couldn’t get the tail number of one. I’ll try tomorrow but I often have issues with Glenn and Robyn’s videos.
We don’t know which flight was which as they missed it up. They showed them getting on N323NE. Which is a Cessna Citation Ultra. However, there have been zero flights in that plane from Vegas to SoCal since January.
The other plane is N96205. Now this is weird, it looks like a citation too, but is listed as a Skyhawk (piston plane, not a jet). The tail numbers can cycle -it’s like a license plate for your car, you can change it and register with F.A.A. but you have to have one. This one hasn’t been changed since the single engine. The last flight for that tail number was in the Caribbean in 2019 and listed as unknown owner. There have been no flights plans filed by that plane since 2019. It’s not legal to fly with the wrong number.
Seems very odd that the tail number of that plane that supposedly took them to San Diego is not listed anywhere. In the F.A.A. database it’s listed as a reserved number, since 2021, but nobody has finalized it and it expires in January.
Yet- below is a picture of them getting on the problem plane with the pilot waiting. N96205 is the number I looked up. Then I checked N9620S, just in case. Nothing. Then I checked N9620B which is an old Cessna Cutlass with zero flights.
So something strange seems to be happening in this potato patch. Maybe my eyes are missing something, I’ll pull out the laptop instead of my phone and see if the video is better, and if I can grab that 3rd tail number.
TLDR: the planes shown in this video have not gone Vegas to SD and one doesn’t even seem legal to fly. Yet it’s got a pilot is standing there. Seriously weird.
Maybe I’m wrong and you can file flight plans with the wrong number but it seems like it’d cause a lot of confusion. The Kiwi who has a pilot friendly, can you ask him?

Maybe I’m just tired?
They showed 3 planes but I had a lot of trouble with this video and couldn’t get the tail number of one. I’ll try tomorrow but I often have issues with Glenn and Robyn’s videos.
We don’t know which flight was which as they missed it up. They showed them getting on N323NE. Which is a Cessna Citation Ultra. However, there have been zero flights in that plane from Vegas to SoCal since January.
The other plane is N96205. Now this is weird, it looks like a citation too, but is listed as a Skyhawk (piston plane, not a jet). The tail numbers can cycle -it’s like a license plate for your car, you can change it and register with F.A.A. but you have to have one. This one hasn’t been changed since the single engine. The last flight for that tail number was in the Caribbean in 2019 and listed as unknown owner. There have been no flights plans filed by that plane since 2019. It’s not legal to fly with the wrong number.
Seems very odd that the tail number of that plane that supposedly took them to San Diego is not listed anywhere. In the F.A.A. database it’s listed as a reserved number, since 2021, but nobody has finalized it and it expires in January.
Yet- below is a picture of them getting on the problem plane with the pilot waiting. N96205 is the number I looked up. Then I checked N9620S, just in case. Nothing. Then I checked N9620B which is an old Cessna Cutlass with zero flights.
So something strange seems to be happening in this potato patch. Maybe my eyes are missing something, I’ll pull out the laptop instead of my phone and see if the video is better, and if I can grab that 3rd tail number.
TLDR: the planes shown in this video have not gone Vegas to SD and one doesn’t even seem legal to fly. Yet it’s got a pilot is standing there. Seriously weird.
Maybe I’m wrong and you can file flight plans with the wrong number but it seems like it’d cause a lot of confusion. The Kiwi who has a pilot friendly, can you ask him?

Maybe I’m just tired?