Blackwater Bulks Up Air Power Using Little-Known Company

[kpete]

Blackwater Bulks Up Air Power Using Little-Known Company
By Sharon Weinberger April 07, 2008

Private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide has purchased a light attack counterinsurgency aircraft, and over two dozen other aircraft, under the name of an obscure aviation company.

An Embraer Super Tucano was placed on the U.S. civil aircraft registry on February 21, 2008 under the name of EP Aviation LLC. Additionally, 28 other aircraft have been registered to this company, most over the past few months. The list includes 14 Bell 412 helicopters, as well as a number of fixed wing aircraft.

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What are all these aircraft for? Well, the Super Tucano makes sense; it could be used to provide counterinsurgency aircraft training to the U.S. government. As for the other aircraft, one blog, which doesn't note the Blackwater connection, says the aircraft are part of the FBI's contractor fleet. http://lowcountry-listening-post.blogspot.com/2008/01/us-department-of-justice-aircraft.html

more at:
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/04/blackwater-bulk.html

[sabra]

1. this is scary stuff...

[acmavm]

2. Blackwater needs to be put out of business. They shouldn't get

another dime out of the US Treasury. And little Erik the Prince should go on trial for murder.

[eShirl]

3. ASAP

[Greyhound]

4. Any nation that allows this type of "private security force" to remain within it's borders

without being made subservient to local government is just asking for trouble. Posse Comitatus needs to be re-instated and expanded to include any non-governmental, for profit, private body, and strict limitations to small arms imposed.