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I'll leave details out for privacy reasons. A few days ago, I get a phone call from an unknown number. I usually don't answer if I don't know the number unless I'm expecting a call. I quickly googled the number and found out it's an airport a few hundred miles away. I called them back. The manager told me that an airplane landed at his airport a few months ago and I am listed as the last registered owner of the plane. He gave me the tail number and sure enough, it's a plane I sold over two years ago. When I sold it, I unregistered it, which is something we can do here in Canada to avoid being held liable for things after a new owner takes possession, so as of right now (and for the last two years), the plane simply wasn't registered to anyone. Long story short, the manager told me that some guy (his description matches the person I sold the plane to), flew the plane in a while ago, paid for ramp parking for a week in advance and said he'd come back and pick up the plane "next week". Well, "next week" was months ago, the new owner's phone number doesn't connect anywhere and the airport manager doesn't know what to do with the plane, so he called me asking if I know anything or if I have a different number for the new owner. We compared numbers and we both had the same.
Long story short, the new owner did not register the plane for the past two years but still flew the plane several hundred miles. Maybe he had a ferry permit though but I don't know that. I know the plane just recently passed its annual because my mechanic (several hundred miles away from where the plane is now) told me about it.
This is just a strange story all around I guess.
Long story short, the new owner did not register the plane for the past two years but still flew the plane several hundred miles. Maybe he had a ferry permit though but I don't know that. I know the plane just recently passed its annual because my mechanic (several hundred miles away from where the plane is now) told me about it.
This is just a strange story all around I guess.