It's not the same as the strange case of the missing 727 from a couple of years ago, but it's not the same as stealing a Cessna for a joy ride, either. "It" is last weekend's apparent theft of a Cessna Citation VII, which went missing from the St. Augustine (Fla.) Airport (SGJ) sometime Saturday and mysteriously materialized a few hundred miles away at the Gwinnett County Airport/Briscoe Field (LZU) in Lawrenceville, Ga., Sunday morning, according to The Associated Press. Published reports say the jet -- which is operated by Pinnacle Air Jet Charter -- landed at SGJ at about 10:40 a.m. local time Saturday. According to the AP, the jet's crew parked the Citation on the ramp, turned loose their passengers and waited for an outbound flight assignment. It was a lengthy wait -- the crew first realized their jet was missing on Monday morning. By Monday, the Citation had already been parked at LZU for at least a day -- since the tower at LZU is closed overnight, local authorities believe the Citation landed before 6:30 a.m. Sunday. The pool of likely suspects can't be that large, of course -- how many Citation VII-qualified pilots were there in the St. Augustine area last Saturday?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/news/dude-wheres-my-bizjet