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Illegally Acquired Parts To Repair Aircraft For State-Owned Oil Company
George Semerene Quintero, of Venezuela, was sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to evade U.S. sanctions on Venezuela’s Maduro regime by illegally acquiring aircraft parts to service airplanes used by PdVSA, a Venezuelan state-owned oil company. Court documents provided by attorneys for the Southern District of Florida showed that after learning about the sanctions imposed on the Maduro government and PdVSA, Semerene and his accomplices conspired to illegally procure aircraft bearings, rudder parts, joint slide flexes, and actuators from the U.S. to service PdVSA’s fleet in Venezuela...
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From 2010 (YouTube Edition): Chief Pilot Feuerstein and Captain Imrich Successfully Complete Flight Plan
On February 8th, 2010, almost two months after the Dreamliner’s historic first flight, Boeing made history once again as the new 747-8 Freighter took to the skies for the first time. Over 5,000 Boeing employees, customers, suppliers, and community leaders gathered in Everett, Washington, as the 421,200lb aircraft (empty weight) lifted from the Paine Field runway. 747 Chief Pilot Mark Feuerstien and Captain Tom I
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Aero Linx: Alaska Aviation Museum
The Alaska Aviation Museum is located in the heart of Alaska aviation. It sits on the south shore of Lake Hood, the busiest seaplane base in the world, with more than 87,000 takeo?s and landings per year. A half-mile away is Ted Stevens International Airport, the air crossroads of the world. You can watch takeo?s and landings right from the museum. The museum presents one of the finest displays of Alaskan aviation history with interactive displays, memorabilia, photographs, films and artifacts from personal collections of Alaska’s pioneer aviators.
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