United States v. One (1) 1966 Beechcraft Baron, No. N242bs

KRUPANSKY, Circuit Judge.

Expo-Leasing, Inc. (Expo Inc.) and Albert Gillette Rogers (Rogers), the owners of a 1966 Beechcraft Baron, appealed from an order directing forfeiture of the defendant aircraft to the United States pursuant to 19 U.S.C. § 1703.

At approximately 8:00 p.m. on December 18, 1983, airport radar on Grand Bahama Island detected an unidentified aircraft at 8,000 feet over the westerly section of the island flying on a westerly heading toward the Florida coastline. Although its point or time of departure was not known, it apparently had flown from a location south of Nassau.…