Armory on jet sent tipster to feds

[Rhino]

Armory on jet sent tipster to feds
SECURITY AVIATION: Former flight paramedic says she and her husband called authorities.

By RICHARD MAUER
Anchorage Daily News

Published: February 12, 2006
Last Modified: February 12, 2006 at 04:27 AM


Melissa Bucknall has been a flight paramedic for about a decade, but nothing in her emergency training and experience prepared her for what she saw last summer when her work brought her in contact with the men who had taken over Security Aviation.


"It was all very strange to me," she said in an interview recently. "It was like a bunch of big boys playing a game. They all claimed to be FBI agents and ex-CIA, and SWAT teams."

It was months before the Feb. 2 raids by heavily armed federal agents on the air-charter company's Anchorage and Palmer hangars and the Midtown offices of several related companies. And it was before a prosecutor described one of the men Bucknall had encountered, Rob Kane, as a fraud, and a federal magistrate compared the strange facts in the case to a Sidney Sheldon thriller.

Bucknall, working medevac duty for Alaska Regional Hospital, was having her own doubts about the boasts of the men and the purpose of their companies, she said, even as they showed her their caches of weapons.

Early one morning last September, she said, they seemed eager to show off their new jet and their weaponry, despite what she and others describe as their compulsion toward secrecy.

She had just returned to Anchorage from an emergency flight and arrived at the Security hangar on the south side of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport around 2 a.m. One of the company's Gulfstream executive jets had just landed too, she said.

"It was real secretive, nobody was supposed to know they were there, they had everything locked. Well, we just happened to come back on a medevac mission at the same time," Bucknall said.

Among those on board the Gulfstream were Kane, the self-styled "commander" who last week FBI agents identified as a "principal" of a string of companies associated with Security Aviation and its owner, Anchorage lawyer Mark Avery. Dennis Hopper, an Anchorage firearms dealer, was also on board the jet, Bucknall said.

Avery, Hopper and Security president Joseph Kapper didn't return numerous calls from the Daily News seeking comment. Kane's attorney also did not return a call. Kane himself is in custody on federal firearms charges, accused of illegal possession of two 16-tube rocket launchers capable of being fitted to Avery's private fleet of Czech L-39 military trainer jets................http://www.adn.com/front/story/7440909p-7351731c.html

[Rink]

Sounds like either a buncha amateur wanna-be's or some bunch who just were plain too stupid to be 'connected' with the govt for very long (in other words, throw-away useful idiots that did a few jobs for the govt then tossed when they got too problematic)

#1. too stupid to keep their mouths shut.

#2, too stupid to truly keep Op Sec truly secure.

#3. Too stupid to keep their stuff hidden like the pros would

#4. too stupid to not vet EVERYONE that goes thru their building

Dang I tellya thats a tale of pure plain stupidity on the account of those so-called special guys who were associated with everyone and his pet dork in the govt.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeesh! :rolleyes:

Worst part of it all is... who the heck did these dolts deal with, with these weaponry? and did they pose a security risk to this nation with their selling of rockets and such to unknown possibly hostile participants in their sales???

[Rhino]

.....guys who were associated with everyone and his pet dork in the govt.....They were associated with the Clintons?

[Rink]

Prolly bragged they knew em too I bet, wouldnt surprise me none they bragged that association as well, seemed they bragged the knew everyone else.

[Lazarus]

Well the story does make them sound rather adolescent and amateurish in their conduct, but remember that this is just one side of the story... And the Press has not been known to be exactly objective when it comes to the issue of private ownership of firearms... I get suspicious anytime I hear the press "revealing" some government raid on private citizens and their guns...

I doubt we'll ever hear the full truth of this story - certainly not the other side of it... These kind of stories are published for their initial shock value and then forgotten as the tabloids move on to the next shock story...

Tabloids are what the MSM have become...

[Rhino]

Well the story does make them sound rather adolescent and amateurish in their conduct, but remember that this is just one side of the story... And the Press has not been known to be exactly objective when it comes to the issue of private ownership of firearms... I get suspicious anytime I hear the press "revealing" some government raid on private citizens and their guns...Yep. I kept thinking of Waco when I was reading it. LOL!

I doubt we'll ever hear the full truth of this story - certainly not the other side of it....Unless they burn the place down with people inside. And even then.......

[Rhino]

The plot thickens.

April 17, 2006

FBI To Give Planes Back

By Russ Niles
Newswriter, Editor

An Alaska air charter company with mysterious ties to at least two intelligence organizations is getting back six of eight L-39 Albatross jets seized by the federal government earlier this year. The planes were taken after Security Aviation and one of its principals, Rob "Commander" Kane, were charged with illegal possession of rocket launchers. The government has now determined that at least six of the planes couldn't be fitted with the rockets and it's still examining the other two. A judge has been asked to dismiss the six aircraft from the case and talks are underway to transfer them back to the company. Meanwhile, documents unsealed last Wednesday revealed that, contrary to earlier statements by prosecutors, the federal government now concedes that Kane worked for at least two intelligence agencies......http://www.avweb.com/newswire/12_16a/briefs/192033-1.html

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This has a big following with the L-39 owners in this country. The FAA has a burr in its butt over civilians owning this plane and continue to try to impose its will against them.
The so called rocket pods were dummy units that can be found on EBAY and were gutted and good for show use only. The planes are all de-militarized prior to being allowed into the country.A very thorough process.
I've never seen a L-39 fly with, or have one mounted on the ground, probably due to how it makes the plane less "clean" in flight, but I could see a person wanting one for display at an airshow.
I've flown in the L-39 many times. Its a hoot to fly, very simple in fact. Thats a picture of me and my son in a L-39 after a flight in my avatar.


Photo of rocket pod.
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[Incident_command]

Another issue is how the planes made it in and out of the country, as reported, with these weapons without customs finding them. I flew lifegaurd for 4 years in and out of the country in Lear 24's and can tell you first hand, patient or not, customs would search our aircraft top to bottom. At times even having the patient removed for further inspection. We were instructed what we could and could not carry on each flight and there were no exceptions.

[Rhino]

IC, I reduced the picture size.