Portland to Seattle re aircraft registration number formats and Western Skyways Cessna inquiry
Document date 29 November 1971
Also filed at: Part 111 pp. 44–45
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Subject: Cooper Files: Cooper-Part-111:042-043 Document: Teletype Portland to Seattle re aircraft registration number formats and Western Skyways Cessna inquiry Id: Cooper-Part-111:042-043 Page: https://cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A042-043 What is wrong (title, date, type, which pages belong together, copies)? What does the scan show?
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 111 pp. 42–43 (DB Cooper-2087–2088), Teletype, dated 29 Nov 1971, serial SE 164-81-233 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-111%3A042-043
NR 005 PD PLAIN 5:31 PM URGENT 11-29-71 AJW TO: SEATTLE (164-81) FROM: PORTLAND (164-41)
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UNSUB; NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE ZERO FIVE, PORTLAND TO SEATTLE, NOVEMBER TWENTYFOUR. SEVENTYONE. CAA - HPJACKING; EXTORTION.
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OO; SEATTLE. Re: CESSNA [guess: Sub].35
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RE SEATTLE TELETYPE TO PORTLAND, DATED NOVEMBER TWENTYEIGHT, SEVENTYONE.
ON NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE, SEVENTYONE, [REDACTED] b6 per FAA b7C per FAA ADVISED ALL AIRCRAFT FLOWN IN U.S. MUST BE REGISTERED WITH FAA. ALL REGISTERED AIRCRAFT HAVE SERIAL NUMBERS THAT BEGIN WITH LETTER N FOLLOWED BY FOUR NUMERALS AND ONE LETTER OR FIVE NUMERALS. AIRCRAFT REGISTERED IN FOREIGN COQNTGIES AND OPERATING IN U.S. HAVE REGISTRAT- ION NUMBERS BEGINNING WITH MQLTPPLE LETTERS; HOWEVER, NO COUNTRIES USE LETTERS KDR; KD; DR; OR KR. END OF PAGE ONE
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GIVEN TO MARA[guess: GINE] By PHONE I PUT MEMO IN THIS FILE RE TR-6 BUT IN VIEW OF ABOVE a 9AC TT, I DID NOT SEND [guess: Copy] ANYTHING TO PD. [guess: J. G.]
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SEARCHED _____ INDEXED__b7C per FBI SERIALIZED______ FILED____ NOV 29 1971 FBI - SEATTLE [INITIALS]
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DB Cooper-2087
PD 164-41 . PAGE TWO
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[REDACTED] WESTERN SKYWAYS, INC., PORTLAND, OREGON, A CESSNA DEALERSHIP, ADVISED NOVEMBER TWENTYNINE, SEVENTYONE, THAT DESCRIPTIVE DATA IN REFERENCED TELETYPE INSUFFICIENT TO IDENTIFY MODEL OF AIRCRAFT.
SEATTLE REQUESTED TO REINTERVIEW SOURCE AND DETERMINE FOLLOWING: DID LANDING GEAR HAVE NOSE WHEEL OR (TAIL WHEEL,) WHETHER PLANE WAS HIGH WING OR LOW WING; IF VERTICAL STABILIZER AT TAIL OF PLANE WAS SWEPT BACK OR STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN; SPECIFIC LOCATIOM OF KDR AND NUMBERS ON PLANE; FURNISH RESULTS OF REINTERVIEW TO PORTLAND. P-
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[handwritten, partially illegible] [guess: Rare] [guess: Gold] [guess: or every] [guess: U next to] [illegible] [additional marginal initials/marks on right side, illegible]
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END
CORR PAGE ONE EIGHTH LINE FOURTH WORD SHLD READ COUNTRIES AND NINETH LINE FIFTH WORD SHLD READ MULTIPLE END
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b6 b7C
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DB Cooper-2088
Serials: PD 164-41, SE 164-81, SE 164-81-233