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Basler BT-67 - N845S - Stevens Express Leasing Inc (Empresa Fachada de la CIA)
During the conversion to turbine, Basler had also installed ferry tanks in the aircraft and its first deployment in 1993 saw it flying to Luqa, Malta although precisely where it went to next or what it did over the years that followed and when it returned to the United States also remain something of a mystery. The aircraft was re-registered N811RB to Stevens Express Leasing Inc in June 1998 and re-registered again to the same company as N845S in May 2000 and this remains its current registration today. The FAA file discloses that by October 2006 its total airframe flying hours had risen to 19,524. Given that when it left AUTEC service in 1976 with just over 7,000 hours, over the intervening 30 years it had an average utilisation of 420 hours per year.
Whilst the writer has no personal knowledge of the accuracy or otherwise of what follows, the many newspaper reports and websites which interest themselves in such matters identify Stevens Express Leasing Inc, the registered owners of this C-47, as a CIA front company, and they may well be right. It is claimed that the CIA uses Stevens Express Leasing and several other companies to appear as the owners of aircraft, which are then used for covert activities. The address of the company is in Cordova, Tennessee which is a suburb of Memphis. Here is to be found a lawyer’s office, the address of which is that of Stevens Express Leasing. The company however has no employees, no business premises and no website. Instead, as one report describes it “the company has a CIA-contracted lawyer who provides a mail drop, registers the company with the state and the aircraft with the FAA and interfaces in other necessary ways with government agencies and the public