Anybody missing a Boeing 727??

[regionalcap]

Plane abandoned at Hanoi airport




Vietnamese authorities say they are mystified as to who owns a Boeing 727 which has been abandoned at Hanoi's Noi Bai airport.
The plane was flown in from Siem Reap in neighbouring Cambodia in late 2007 and has been unclaimed ever since.
An airport official told the BBC that they believe the owners could be an airline based in Cambodia.
The official said that if it remains unclaimed, the plane will have to be sent for scrap.
The plane has a Cambodian flag on its fuselage and is emblazoned with the name Air Dream, but the authorities say they have no information about the airline.
Earlier, one security official at Noi Bai airport told the BBC's Vietnamese Service that the plane belongs to bankrupt budget Cambodian airline Royal Khmer, but this is not certain.
Permission was originally given for the plane to remain at the airport while essential maintenance was carried out but these repairs have not been done.
Online newspaper VietnamNet reported that the owners could be unable or unwilling to pay the required airport parking fees.

 

[BIGGOAT]

You guys figured me out. I bought the thing so I could start a new airline and staff it with underpaid regional expats. The first sceduled run will be ATL to Gotebo OK. No airport there yet but i will get pork dollars for one

Goat

 

[Lear70]

Reminds me of what happened when Express One shut down right after Christmas 2001.

A couple guys were stuck in hotels while the company raided the HQ building, took out the computers, phones, and projectors (and anything else of value), and chain padlocked the front and back doors into the building with a sign hand-written that said (Closed, no point of contact).

A couple crews flew the airplanes to all sorts of weird places in order to get home. One crew took a 727 up to Alaska and it sat up there for a while until the lienholder figured out where it was.

Weirder things have happened... Usually it's a Lear or Citation that gets abandoned after a couple drug runs,,,

 

[Raskal]

... Usually it's a Lear or Citation that gets abandoned after a couple drug runs,,,

Hmm. 72...must've been a helluvalotta dope.

 

[PropPiedmont]

Didn't a 727 get stolen about 4-5 years ago out of Central or South America? No one ever knew what happened to it.

 

[Colonel Savage]

Didn't a 727 get stolen about 4-5 years ago out of Central or South America? No one ever knew what happened to it.

Yes, but it appeared in Central Africa several weeks later with no sign of the crew. The registration number would not trace, so that was fake, and I think the airframe had a few bullet holes in it.

 

[whymeworry?]

Sounds like some labyrinthian mercinary/ CIA operation that simply ran out of funding mid-stream.