AGENCY ADMINISTRATIVELY TRANSFER THREE INACTIVE ASSETS PAO News Release BASE OPS, FLORIDA -- Police-51, Aviation-10 and Aviation-11 have been transferred from the PigsThatFly account. All three have been marked missing with unknown location. They join Chase-3 and Aviation-23 that are already inactive. Police-51 on Patrol, a virtual helicopter, had last reported in on March 28, 2014 when it landed in Bristol, England to execute an arrest warrant. The aircraft had successfully pursued Robert The Robber for about two-weeks. The pursuit terminated with the arrest at the last reported cache placement. The arrest was the first and only for Police-51 and the second of four executed by Agency assets assigned to the Airborne Intercept Unit. The unit is dedicated to providing virtual airborne law enforcement coverage for the East Midlands Caching Groups annual TB Bank Job administered by cHramm. Aviation-10 is the original fuel service truck deployed in early 2013. In April 2013, after being placed in a cache south of Vienna, Austria, a visiting cacher reported that it was not in cache. About six-weeks ago the fuel truck had been transferred to the active account in anticipation of a replacement being deployed. Logistics and manpower issues have hampered the replacements deployment. The desire is to have the replacement Aviation-10 released in the proximity of the last reported position. To date, a contact has not been secured in eastern Austria. Aviation-11 is the lone helicopter transporter deployed in the spring of 2013. About a year ago, in 2013, it had departed from a state park in southwest Virginia. That had been the last activity posted by Aviation-11 and its driver for nearly a year. Late last month a discovery stirred excitement. A couple of days later, the holder from Virginia logged placing in the Florida Keys. After a week it was determined that Aviation-11 was not in the cache. Unfortunately, a suspicious theory by some in Base Ops is that a ruse was a foot to facilitate clearing an account inventory of a long lost TB. Current standard practice by Base Ops is to administratively hold inactive trackables for a year before releasing a replacement. July 2014 will mark a year for Chase-3, that went missing after retrieval at an Ohio event. Aviation-23 made it home to Base Ops without its tag in January 2014.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 18:53:54 +0000