Aviation Worldwide Services, LLC
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Aviation Worldwide Services LLC (AWS) is a sister company to Presidential Airways, Inc., both of which are owned by Blackwater USA, Melbourne, FL. AWS owns the planes, and Presidential Airways operates them.[1]
The company appears to provide air services to the CIA - flight records show that its N964BW has made at least two trips to the agency's Camp Peary training facility,[2], N963BW went there in March and April 2009[3] and N962BW went there in May 2006.[4] Another plane it owns, N968BW, flew from Washington Dulles International Airport to Camp Peary on March 13, 2007. [5]
In October 2005, the Washington Post reported that AWS is a defendant in a wrongful death suit in the U.S. District Court in Florida, brought by the families of the three soldiers killed when the company's N960BW (Blackwater 63) crashed in Afghanistan. The co-defendants are Presidential Airways Inc., STI Aviation Inc. and Air Quest Inc. The suit alleges negligence.[6][1]
Planes Registered to AWS
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AWS is the registered owner of the following planes (this is an incomplete list):
Contact details
1371 General Aviation Drive,
Melbourne, Brevard County,
Florida 32935-6310, United States
(source)
SourceWatch resources
- Blackwater Airstrip Airport (NC61)
- Blackwater USA
- Camp Peary ("The Farm")
- Central Intelligence Agency
- N962BW
- N964BW
- Presidential Airways, Inc.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Trevor Aaronson, "Err America: A plane crash in Afghanistan has a Florida company defending its mercenary profits in court", Broward-Palm Beach New Times, October 27, 2005.
- ↑ Tracking data for N964BW, flightaware.com. Accessed June 9, 2006. Registration req'd to view historical data. (Saved 161KB PDF)
- ↑ Tracking data for N963BW, flightaware.com. Accessed April 16, 2009. Registration req'd to view historical data.
- ↑ Tracking data for N962BW, flightaware.com. Accessed June 13, 2006. Registration req'd to view historical data. (Saved 163KB PDF)
- ↑ Tracking data for N968BW, flightaware.com. Accessed June 21, 2007. Registration req'd to view historical data. (Saved 166KB PDF)
- ↑ Griff Witte, "Blackwater Broke Rules, Report Says: Army Probed Deadly Crash in Afghanistan", Washington Post, October 5, 2005.
- ↑ FAA records for N962BW. Undated, accessed June 23, 2007.
- ↑ FAA records for N963BW. Undated, accessed April 16, 2009.
- ↑ FAA records for N964BW. Undated, accessed June 23, 2007.
- ↑ FAA records for N968BW. Undated, accessed June 23, 2007.
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