{"id":3416,"date":"2014-04-15T11:44:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2014-04-15T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T16:44:11","slug":"about-that-mystery-helicopter-in-the-bundy-cattle-confiscation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3416","title":{"rendered":"About that mystery helicopter in the Bundy Cattle Confiscation…"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Codrea had an article in The Examiner<\/a> over the weekend about the FAA issuing what’s called a TFR for the Gold Butte area. A TFR (Temporary Flight Restriction) is basically a domestic no fly zone, and are usually limited to things like disaster zones, Presidential\/Vice Presidential visits, and rocketry. I don’t know of another law enforcement action that needed a TFR but I could be wrong.<\/p>\n

In his article, he mentions this picture<\/a> from the Las Vegas Review Journal (no link because copyright trolls<\/a>), and how that tail number is not in the FAA Registry.<\/p>\n

He’s right. You can look it up yourself<\/a> if you’d like. There is no aircraft registered as N806IJ.<\/p>\n

Now, there’s this other thing that the FAA allows you to do. You can download the entire FAA Registration Database<\/a> as a zip file of CSVs. It takes a little bit of translation, but what if you open that guy up you can see that there are about 1500 Robinson R44s registered.<\/p>\n

My coblogger oddball said “That 8 is obviously a painted 2” so I narrowed down to R44s that started with a 2, and guess what I found?<\/p>\n

N206TJ<\/a>, registered to Rugged Country Helicopters, LLC<\/a>, based in Cedar City, UT.<\/p>\n

Cedar City, UT, is about 150 miles from the Bundy Ranch. The range of an R44 is 350 miles without refueling.<\/p>\n

So, there’s that.<\/p>\n

They don’t have a web presence that I can find, but I’m sure someone with more time could call them and ask them if that’s their bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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