Tepper Aviation - Aircraft Operated By Tepper

Aircraft Operated By Tepper

• N1018H - Cessna TR-182, c.n. R18201649 - owned by Tepper
• N2189M - Lockheed L-100-30 c.n. 4582 (registration no longer valid) Lars Olausson's entry for c.n. 4582 in the 25th edition of the "Lockheed Hercules Production List - 1954-2008" (self-published, Såtenäs, Sweden), reads: L-100-30 (Model 382-G-30C), delivered April 1975 - Gabon Air Force TRK-KA, April 1975, same April 1980. Registered TR-KKA by August 1981, same, February 1989. Sold to Pegasus Aviation Finance Company, registered N2189M, 1989, registered to Alaska World Trade Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska, January 1990, same, March 1990. Registered to Flight Cargo Leasing, Dover, Delaware, April 1990, same, September 1990. Leased to Tepper Aviation . As of January 1992, marked in overall white w/ a blue line, no markings, blister on top of fwd. fuselage. Flights to Riga and Kiev, February 1992. As Rapid Air Trans, November 1993, same January 1994. To Pegasus Aviation, February 1995, same, May 1997. Carrying Tepper Aviation titles, June 1998. At Basra, May 2004, no titles as of October 2005. N2189M registration passed to JJS&D, LLC, 824 Market Street, Suite 1000, Wilmington, Delaware, 19899-1680, registration date 7 December 2006; reregistered N2731G to JSS&D, January 2007. Operating with no titles, May 2007. N2731G was previously assigned to a York, Pennsylvania-registered Cessna 182B, c.n. 52031, registered June 28, 1996, and delisted as destroyed.
• N8183J - Lockheed L-100-30 c.n. 4796 - Lars Olausson's entry for c.n. 4796 in the 25th edition of the "Lockheed Hercules Production List - 1954-2008" (self-published, Såtenäs, Sweden), reads: L-100-30 (Model 382G-39C), delivered November 1978 and sold to Safair, November 1978. Leased to SCIBE, Zaire, registered 9Q-CBJ, November 1978. Stored at Brussels by October 1988, same January 1989. Registered to Pegasus Aviation as N123GA, January 1989. Registered to Rapid Air Trans as N8183J, February 1989, operated by Aero International. Leased to Tepper Aviation, December 1989?, same, March 1990. As of April 1993, white overall, no titles. Operation for U.S. government, October 1993, same, November 2004. Registration N8183J transferred to Q2P, L.L.C., Wilmington, Delaware, October 2006. Registration changed to N2679C, November 2006, TA on tail, November 2006. Operation by Tepper, March 2007 (Lars Olausson, Production List, 2008, 26th Ed., page 95).
• N9205T - Lockheed L-100 c.n. 4129 (crashed November 27, 1989) Lars Olausson gives this history: L-100 c.n. 4129, (Model 382G-30C) delivered to ZAC-Alexander, registered 9J-RBW, April 1966, sold to Maple Leaf Leasing, 1969, leased to Pacific Western Airlines, line number 383, March 1969, damaged Eureka, Nunavut, August 1969, rebuilt as L-100-20, December 1969. Leased to Alaska International Air, (earlier Interior Airways, later MarkAir), December 1969. Sold to Pacific Western Airlines, registered CF-PWN, 1977, then sold to St. Lucia Airways, registered J6-SLO, May 1985, named "Juicy Lucy", (after a rock and roll band), 1969–1972, transporting cargo for UNITA, July 1987. Sold to Tepper Aviation, Florida, N9205T, January 1988, named "Grey Ghost" - crash landing at Jamba, Angola.
• Although it's not proven, it appears likely that the recently re-registered Lockheed L-100-30 N3867X, c.n. 4684, (Model 382G-35C) is also operated by Tepper. The airframe is registered to T3D&H, L.L.C., 824 Market Street, Suite 1000, Wilmington, Delaware - CIA front companies have been known as "Delaware corporations", as described by former Deputy Director of the CIA, Robert Amory, Jr., due to the lenient incorporation laws of that state. ("The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence", by Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks, Dell Publishing Company, Inc., New York, New York, 1974, chapter 5, page 146, ISBN 44004698175.) The Glomar Explorer was built in a Delaware shipyard.
• N4557C, L-100-30, c.n. 5027, (Model 382G-69C) is widely supposed to be operated by Tepper, given that it is owned by the same shell company as N2189M and N8183J. However, this is also not proven. The Landings database for U.S. civil registrations does not have a record of N4557C. Olausson lists the following registrations for 5027: Lockheed Aircraft Company N4278M, China Air Cargo CAAC B-3002, delivered November 1987, same, July 1991. China Eastern Airlines, September 1991, same, June 1992. Air China, March, 1993, then China Air Cargo, February 1994, (according to Olausson, fish charter to Japan, October 1998). Sold to Safair ZS-JAG, May 1999, operating October 2003 in all white scheme, same December 2003. To Rapid Air Trans (Tepper) N4557C as of January 2004. At Mojave, California, August 2004, January 2007. Registration transferred to Northcap, L.L.C., Wilmington, Delaware, 06-Mar-2007, according to the Landings database. There are four companies operating Hercules that list the same Wilmington address, all with cryptic names. Update: The 2009 edition of the Olausson Production List (April 2008) reports that N4557C was reregistered N3796B, April 2007, (page 107). N3796B has been noted carrying out flight testing of an avionics modification at Mojave Air & Space Port, Mojave, California in November–December 2008, wearing Tepper titles and colours.