He consulted Jane’s, the private-sector database for aerospace information, and identified a twin-engine turboprop that he thought was likeliest to be the one employed by the police. Then he pulled up the UK’s civil-aviation registry, which had a list of all aircraft of that type operating in the country. The records indicated that most belonged to conventional government agencies. But a small number of the planes, Veale told the detectives, “stood out like bulldogs’ bollocks.” Their ostensibly private owner was a partnership, rather than a limited company, which could leave the people behind
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