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In the two weeks since an American
DC9 airliner was busted by Mexican
troops at a small airport in the
Yucatan, carrying 5.5 tons of
cocaine packed neatly into 128
identical black suitcases (somewhat hilariously marked 'private')
the search for the true owners of
the plane has produced these
startling new developments...
The busted DC9, dubbed
"Cocaine One"
in an
earlier story, had an
identical twin, a
second airliner painted with the same
distinctive
blue-and-white-with-gold-trim of
official U.S. aircraft, the
MadCowMorningNews can
reveal exclusively, and under the
control of the same company. Or
Company.

SkyWay Aircraft was
the only tangible asset of SkyWay
Communications Holding, a
firm whose existence served as nothing more than a meager
excuse to run a penny stock fraud
scam, successfully relieving
investors of over $40 million
dollars in only three years.
During 2003 and 2004, both DC9's
controlled by the firm (N-numbers
N900SA & N120NE) boasted an
official-looking Seal beside the
door bearing the familiar image of
an American eagle clutching olive
branches and arrows in its talons,
around which were emblazoned the
words "SKYWAY AIRCRAFT, PROTECTION
OF AMERICA'S SKIES."
A cover story should at least provide
a little, you know...cover
The Seal and paint job made the
planes look like they belong to
Homeland Security, specifically the
TSA (Transportation Security
Administration.)
The tricked-out airliners were
supposedly used to
perform in-flight demonstrations of
the spiffy new technology of
SKYWAY AIRCRAFT and its
corporate parent SKYWAY
COMMUNICATIONS HOLDING CORP.
That
could not, however, have been the
true purpose of the planes.
SkyWay said it's patented technology
promised to protect airplanes from
terrorism, and provide high-speed
Internet at 30,000 feet. To the
shock and anger of investors who
lost 30-40 million dollars,
it did nothing of the kind.
Even a cursory inspection of the
company and its principals quickly reveals
that SkyWay had no products,
no prospects, and nothing to
demonstrate.
What they did have, though...
were a couple of airliners
masquerading
as official U.S. Government planes.
Imagine the possibilities.
Vancouver
stock scams make a sudden appearance
in our tale
SkyWay Aircraft wasn't
in the business of in-flight
entertainment or Homeland Security,
we discovered.
They were in the business of putting
out press releases.
We wondered: were we being too harsh?
Had the company’s management
merely been over-enthusiastic,
overly-optimistic, or mis-informed? Not a chance...
Glenn
and Brent Kovar, a father-and-son
pair of scamsters and penny stock
fraud specialists, "ran" (we used
the word advisedly) SkyWay. They had
run the
same scam several years earlier with
similarly gratifying (for them)
results.
The firm was called Satellite
Access Systems, (SAS) which,
as best we can figure, ended up
being worth about three
one-thousands of a penny per share.
The Vancouver Sun
linked them to a Vancouver stock
promoter who was kicked off the
Vancouver Stock Exchange, Rene Hamouth, and a U.S. promoter
described by Forbes magazine as a
"persuasive scoundrel" found guilty of "awarding himself
millions in excessive compensation,
siphoning off company funds to cover
personal expenses, and diverting
company assets."
But, as they say in TV-land: Here's
the beauty part...Chairman Glenn Kovar
liked to
boast about his
long-standing ties to
the CIA.
We took the Seal off. Forget about
the Seal.
Frederic Geffon
from Royal Sons LLC, the Florida air
charter company which the FAA listed
as the last registered American
owner of "Cocaine One,"
was happy to talk about Brent
and Glenn Kovar's most recent (last
year)
bankruptcy.
"Their company is a scam and he’s a
scammer. I got sold a bill of goods
about his stock. Everybody out here
at the (Clearwater-St. Pete
International) airport invested with him,
and we all lost it all."
In
an exclusive interview, Geffon was quick to
point out that the DC9 was no longer
his concern when it left
the general aviation terminal at
Clearwater-St. Pete on April 5th
heading for Caracas and its
ignominious rendezvous with destiny.
Moreover, he told us,
the phony Homeland Security Seal
was no longer on it, a
statement confirmed by photos of the
plane taken in Mexico after its
interdiction (see photo above.)
'N' numbers are like car
registrations, only not as precise

It
ranks as one of the Top Ten Drug Seizures in
World History.
But among the numerous mysteries surrounding the
case is the question of why a story of a mountain
of cocaine
headed straight downhill towards the
American market
had been received by U.S. officials
and the major media
with such stony silence.
U.S. authorities
have made no
statements identifying the
organization involved in the massive
drug move.
Nor have they addressed serious questions
with obvious national security
implications.
Why was an airliner allowed to impersonate
an official Dept of Homeland
Security aircraft? How did it then
end up being owned by crooks
boasting of American intelligence
connections... and involved in
drug smuggling?
Most importantly... On
whose behalf did all that coke take
wing?
Youth wants to know.
'Cocaine One' not a fit subject for
polite company
Even the identity of the co-pilot arrested
with the plane (the
pilot escaped, natch)
remains a mystery, though initial
news reports confirmed his name as
one of the few actual known facts in
the case.
A theory
was being
floated by Venezuelan officials this
week that the airliner had switched
crews somewhere after leaving
Caracas but before being busted in
Ciudad del Carmen in Mexico's state
of Campeche.
You could almost hear the sound of
creaking leather on the shoes of
officials back-pedaling away from
the case as fast as their little
feet could carry them.
How is it that the owner of an
airliner carrying 5.5
tons of cocaine remains unidentified?
Nobody’s saying. Not the FAA. And
not the former owner of the plane,
who could tell... but refuses to divulge to whom it
was sold.
According to FAA registration
information available online at the
time the story broke 'Cocaine
One' was
registered to Frederic Geffon's Royal Sons LLC.
That statement was rendered
inoperative several days later when the FAA
announced the DC9 had been
retroactively “delisted and exported
to Venezuela."
All the way from Oklahoma City, you
could hear the sound of little FAA
feet, backpedaling furiously.
"The FAA been berry berry good to
me"

An
email from an FAA official did
nothing to clear up the confusion.
“Our records show Douglas DC9-15,
serial number 45775, formerly
N900SA, was cancelled 04/13/2006,
for export to Venezuela. The
aircraft was last registered in the
name of Royal Sons Inc, 15875
Fairchild Dr, Clearwater FL. The
file will not be available to be
sent out until it is updated in
approximately 2 weeks.”
Had someone been caught with their
hand in a cookie jar which the FAA
was helping them
extricate?
Did the FAA’s refusal to release
ownership records for at least several more weeks
indicate that the question of who owned
'Cocaine One'
is fated to never be answered? Would
it end up being like other questions
about equally inconvenient
subjects, like, say, the one about who
had walked off with
the half-trillion dollars
that
“disappeared” during America’s
S & L Scandal?
Out at the Clearwater-St. Pete
International Airport, Royal Son’s owner
Frederic Geffon could not agree more
with the FAA’s recent statement. It
cleared Royals Sons LLC from
any
responsibility for
the plane hauling
tons of cocaine across the Caribbean
from Caracas
to Mexico.
Like the song says: "It wasn't me"
In
an exclusive interview with the
MadCowMorningNews, Geffon
claimed he sold the DC9 weeks ago...
“I
had nothing at all to do with the
plane by the time it was busted,”
Geffon told us. “I sold it three
weeks ago (in late March) to an
aircraft broker, on behalf of
someone in Venezuela.”
“The airplane was out of my name,”
he continued. “I sent a blank form
to the title company. Another
airplane broker was also involved. It was delisted
on the
same day as the incident."
On other questions, however, Geffon
proved less helpful.
Asked the name of the Venezuelan
buyer he sold the plane to, he
responded, “I’m not at liberty to
say. I’ve been asked not to say to
whom the plane was sold.”
Who asked him not to say?
“I’ve been asked not to say who
asked me not to say,” he said.
Place all of our folders in "suspense"
too,
please
Could he could tell
us, then, who was piloting the plane when
it flew out of Clearwater?
“No,
because I wasn’t looking out the
window,” he replied. “I was focused
on business.”
Could the confusion be deliberate?
An aviation executive in Venice
thought so...
"When it comes to registering
airplanes, it’s the Wild West out
there," he explained.
“An airplane is a mobile, big ticket
item. Yet there are no airport
police doing ramp checks, or
checking N numbers at airports.”
“The FAA system for registering
airplanes is little-changed from
when it was started back in the good
ol boy days of the 1930’s. Each
plane has a paper folder, for
example, stuffed with all
correspondence regarding
airworthiness and ownership relating
to that plane.”
“Its an antiquated system which some
feel is kept deliberately in place
to encourage a certain ambiguity
when a plane is interdicted. When a
change of registration is mailed in,
the FAA places a plane’s folder in
what they call “suspense.”
“That’s a tremendous inducement to
anyone with a chance of having a
plane nabbed to keep floating
sales in
progress. The CIA, for example, is
very adept at keeping files on its
planes “in suspense.”
Did somebody say…
CIA?
An
airliner mistaken for one
belonging to the U.S. Government,
said
our aviation
source in Venice with a
smirk, would have definitely
advantages for a drug smuggler.
But wait. There's more...
"One of us cannot be wrong"
“Glenn Kovar told everybody he was
with the CIA,” Frederic
Geffon said. “A lot of people at
the airport believed him, and became
investors in his scam.”
The question of whether there
might be a Central Intelligence
Agency connection to a plane loaded
with 5.5 tons of
cocaine is, to some (you
know who you are)
like asking if the
Pope might be Catholic.
One of two things must be true: We
are looking at a pattern
of systematic ambiguity meant to
protect the privacy of the rich and
famous. To
keep their options open... A pattern
which plays right into the hands of
the unscrupulous, namely drug
dealers, and/or, worse yet,
terrorists.
Or... we're fantasizing,
and what
the FAA is saying is true...
is true, and 'Cocaine
One'
has passed through several owners
since it was owned by the scamsters
at SkyWay Aircraft, in
which case nothing about SkyWay is germane to a story
about 128 suitcases filled
with cocaine baking in the heat on
a runway in the Yucatan.
If the FAA is telling the truth,
we've been wasting your time.
You could have had a V8. Or been surfing for
internet porn.
Still here? Okay, we'll continue...
But, fair warning:
Abandon hope, all ye who enter
here...
Break up the Yankees, FEMA, & the
FAA
What first taught us to take the word of
the federal agency which regulates
aviation with at least a few pinches
of salt were the numerous
occasions during the research for
Welcome to
TERRORLAND where we learned
of big-time corruption inside the
FAA.
The FAA went out of its way to
protect terror flight school honcho
Rudi Dekkers, for example. An
aviation mechanic who worked for
Dekkers said he'd been forced by law
to report criminal acts which he
witnessed Dekkers commit.
"Dekkers did an import of an
airplane," the mechanic explained.
"We found dents on the front of a
wing and replaced sheet metal, and
then we found ribs that were
crushed, which renders an airplane
un-airworthy. Yet Dekkers still sold
the plane!"
"And when I turned him in to the
FAA, they didn’t do a damn thing."
A
second brief example should suffice.
It also involved Rudi Dekkers. He
had forged another aviation
executive’s signature on a repair
order to indicate required repair
work on a helicopter had been
completed. When that executive
discovered it, he told us, he too
was legally compelled to report it
to the FAA.
"I
couldn’t believe it,” he said
indignantly. "I called the FAA to
report a violation and was warned to
leave Dekkers alone. An FAA guy came
out and sat me down and said:
‘I suggest you
back out of this.'"
Of
course, as
we reported earlier, Frederic
Geffon's Royal Sons was listed with
an address which traced to Huffman
Aviation's hanger at the Venice
Airport. Geffon, however, denies any
responsibility for the listing.
Deconstructing
the official story
To recap...
The official explanation so far
appears to be as follows:
"A shadowy and
still-unnamed-but-obviously-very-unlucky
Venezuelan company bought a DC9
airliner that used to use camouflage
to appear to be a U.S. Government
plane, and then got caught with 5
tons of cocaine."
Those crazy Venezuelans! Muy
stupido, non?
On
the off chance that things are
not what they seem we had
decided to take a look at who had
owned the plane before its epic
flight...
The two DC9’s were purchased several
years ago by a still-unexplained
partnership between Frederic
Geffon’s Royal Sons LLC
and
SkyWay Aircraft, the only subsidiary of
SkyWay Communications Holdings Corp.
Given the level of intrigue
surrounding the case,
the revelation that we are no longer
talking about the ownership of just
one airliner tricked out to
resemble a government plane,
but two,
comes as something less than a
shock.
Why do we believe that the sordid
tale of Skyway Aircraft
will be shown to have relevance to
that of the DC9 with enough cocaine
to cut a line all the way to heaven?
The answer is simple: SkyWay was responsible for
painting two DC9's to look like they
belong to the US Dept of Homeland
Security.
This
does not appear to us to be an
innocent act.
Moreover, the planes were parked at the
general aviation terminal at the
Clearwater St. Petersburg Airport, just a few hundred yards away
from a major U.S. Coast Guard
facility housed at the
airport.
Yet—despite America’s hyper-security
conscious post-9.11 aviation
environment—two airliners
conspicuously painted to resemble
government planes sat beside a
facility of a branch of the U.S.
military...and aroused no
suspicion.
How strange is that? We wanted to
ask the Coast Guard that question.
And other ones too: Have they ever heard of
elite deviance, or deep politics, or
state-sponsored crime?
Alas, although we remain
hopeful, our calls for
comment to the Coast
Guard Station at the Clearwater-St
Petersburg Airport have
not yet been returned.
Perhaps someone else might have
better luck.
Thursday: The rest of the story. It
gets even weirder.
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