Word: cessnas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looked at the airplane we would be flying in: a Cessna 182 with a modified door...
Kennedy snaps on his blue roof light and hits the gas. Within minutes, he reaches the Cessna 441. Its props are still turning, but the pilot has fled into the dense, swampy undergrowth. Dressed for the office in a suit and loafers, Kennedy pulls a Walther PPK from his ankle holster and gamely wades in, immediately losing a shoe to the muck. Reinforcements soon join him, and the search goes on for hours. Though the pilot manages to evade them, Kennedy and his colleagues seize nearly a ton of cocaine from the abandoned plane...
They didn't know it then, but that was the start of one of the most remarkable episodes in the history of U.S. law enforcement: the capture and prosecution of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, head of the Panama Defense Forces and "Maximum Leader" of his country. The Cessna's pilot, captured four months later, provided the first testimony linking the strongman to drug running. On Sept. 3, almost six years after that steamy chase, Noriega will walk into downtown Miami's federal courthouse to face a 12-count indictment. He is charged with taking $4.6 million in payoffs between...
Senate Republican leader Bob Dole has two builders of small aircraft, Cessna and Beech, in his state of Kansas. They employ 12,300 people and contribute more than $1 billion to the state's economy. Thus when a 10% tax on the purchase of all small planes was proposed, Dole took off. He got the surcharge limited to those costing more than $250,000, which exempts virtually all of the ones built in his state. Dole has received at least $4,250 from the two manufacturers. Dole also got special treatment for an old friend -- Dwayne Andreas, president...
...flight that they call it the Wobbly Goblin. A congressional defense expert dismissed the public exposure of the F-117A as "pure pap -- a gimmick." This mission, he scoffed, "could have been flown with an Aero Commander, or let Mathias Rust ((the West German teenager who landed his Cessna in Red Square...