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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, (all somewhat hilariously marked 'private'), the search for the true owners of the plane has produced these startling new developments... The busted DC9, which we've dubbed "Cocaine One," had an identical twin. There was 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, basically nothing more than a meager excuse to run a penny stock fraud scam which successfully relieved 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." The Seal and paint job made the planes look like they belong to Homeland Security, specifically the TSA (Transportation Security Administration.)
A cover story should at least provide a little, you know...cover
The tricked-out airliners were said to have been used to perform in-flight demonstrations of SKYWAYS AIRCRAFT and its corporate parent SKYWAY COMMUNICATIONS HOLDING CORP'S new technology.  But that was not the point 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, however, it did nothing of the kind. But even a cursory inspection of the company and its principals quickly reveals that SkyWays had nothing to demonstrate. No products. And no prospects. What they did have, though... was planes. Planes which looked like official U.S. aircraft. Imagine that.
Vancouver stock scams make a sudden appearance in our tale
SkyWay Aircraft wasn't in the business of in-flight entertainment or Homeland Security. They were in the business of putting out press releases. Were we being too harsh? Could the company’s management have just been over-enthusiastic and overly-optimistic? Not a chance...  In fact, the company's principals ran almost the same penny fraud scam several years earlier with similarly gratifying (for them) results.
At that time they were linked in the press with 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 to have been guilty of "awarding himself millions in excessive compensation, siphoning off company funds to cover personal expenses and diverting company assets." The firm was called Satellite Access Systems,(SAS) which as best we can figure out ended up being worth about three one-thousands of a penny per share. Glenn and Brent Kovar, a father-and-son pair of scamsters and penny stock fraud specialists, "ran" (we used the word advisedly) SkyWay. 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 seals off. Forget about the seals.
 Frederic Geffon from Royal Sons LLC, the Florida air charter company which the FAA said was the last registered American owner of the aircraft confiscated in Mexico, was happy to talk about the bankruptcy last year of Brent and Glenn Kovar.
"Their company (Skyway Aircraft & Holding Co.) is a scam and he’s a scammer. I got sold a bill of goods about his stock. Everybody out here at the airport invested with him, and we all lost it all." In an exclusive interview, Geffon was quick to point out that as soon as the DC9 left the general aviation terminal at the Clearwater-St. Pete International Airport (where he maintains an office) on its way to Caracas and its ignominious rendezvous with destiny, it was no longer his concern. Moreover, he told us, the phony Homeland Security Seal had been removed before it left, 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 was one of the Top Ten Drug Seizures in World History. But among the numerous mysteries surrounding the case is why the story of a mountain of cocaine headed straight downhill for the U.S. market had been received by U.S. officials and the major media with such stony silence. U.S. authorities made no statement about the identity of the organization involved in the massive drug move. Nor did they address a serious question freighted with obvious national security implications: What was an airliner impersonating an official Dept of Homeland Security aircraft owned by crooks boasting of American intelligence connections end up involved in drug smuggling? The question must be considered impolite: On whose behalf did all that coke take wing? Youth wants to know.
Maybe "Cocaine One" was flown by remote control
Even the identity of the co-pilot arrested with the plane (the pilot escaped natch) remains something of a mystery. A theory was being floated by Venezuelan officials in Caracas 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.  Why has the owner of an airliner carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine remain unidentified?
Nobody’s saying. Not the FAA. And not the former owner of the plane, who refuses to divulge to whom it was sold. According to FAA registration information available online at the time the story broke, the DC-9 used by the smugglers on their flight from Caracas Venezuela had been registered to Royal Sons LLC, an aircraft broker in Clearwater owned by Frederic Geffon. But several days later the FAA announced that the DC9 in question had been “delisted and exported to Venezuela,” retroactive to a date just two day after of its interdiction by the Mexican military.
"The FAA been berry berry good to me"
An email from an FAA official did little 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.” We wondered: Had someone been caught with their hand in a cookie jar that the FAA was now clumsily trying to extricate? Was the FAA’s refusal to release ownership records for at least several more weeks indicate that the question of who owned "cocaine One" is a question, like that of who had walked off with the half-trillion dollars that somehow “disappeared” during America’s Savings and Loan Scandal, fated to never receive an answer? Out at the Clearwater-St. Pete International Airport, Royal Son’s owner Frederic Geffon could not agree more with the FAA’s statement, because it exonerates Royals Sons LLC from any ownership responsibility for the plane as it was hauling 5.5 tons of cocaine across the Caribbean to the Yucatan from Caracas Venezuela.
 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 with a straight face.
Place all our folders in "suspense" please
We asked Geffon: Could he could tell us who was piloting the plane when it left Clearwater?  “No, because I wasn’t looking out the window,” he replied. “I was focused on business.”
Could all 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 sales in progress. The CIA, for example, is very adept at keeping files on its planes “in suspense.” If the plane was mistaken for one belonging to the U.S. Government, our aviation source in Venice told us with a smirk, it would have definitely been an advantage if it was trafficking narcotics. Did somebody say… CIA? But wait. There's more...
"One of us cannot be wrong"
“Glenn Kovar told everybody he was with the CIA,” Frederic Geffon told us. “A lot of people at the airport believed him, and became investors in his scam.” Of course, questioning whether there could be a Central Intelligence Agency connection to 5.5 tons of cocaine is, to some, (Pope might be Catholic.and you know who you are) akin to asking out loud if the One of two things must be true: What we're looking at here is 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 already passed through several owners since it was owned by SkyWay Aircraft. If true, nothing about SkyWay is at all germane to a story about 128 suitcases filled with cocaine baking in the heat on a runway in the Yucatan. If true... you've wasted your time. You could have had a V8. Or been surfing for internet porn. Still here? Okay, we'll continue... But, fair warning: Enter at your own risk. Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here...
 Break up the Yankees, FEMA, & the FAA
What first taught us to take the word of the FAA with at least a few pinches of salt had been the numerous occasions during the research for Welcome to TERRORLAND where we had learned of big-time corruption inside the FAA. The FAA had gone 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.'"
Deconstructing the official story
The official explanation so far appears to be that 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 be what they seem in the explanation being offered to explain 5.5 tons of cocaine to the great unwashed masses who aren't on a need to know" basis, we 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, a subsidiary (the only subsidiary) of SkyWay Communications Holdings Corp. Given the high 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 we believe Skyways Aircraft will be shown to have involvement in the story of the coke line to heaven is because they were the ones responsible for painting two DC9's to look like they belong to the US Dept of Homeland Security.  It does not appear to have been an innocent act.
Moreover, the airliners 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 sitting beside a facility of a branch of the U.S. military apparently aroused no suspicion. How strange is that? We wanted to ask, about that, and other things too. Had they ever heard of elite deviance, or deep politics, or state-sponsored crime? Alas, although we remain hopeful, our calls to the Coast Guard Station at the Clearwater-St Petersburg Airport for comment have not yet been returned. Perhaps someone else might have better luck. | 
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