I may have found it!

[huskerpony]

N973MW
Unknown Owner

05-Jan-2008 GLF3/Q Metropolitan Oakland Intl (KOAK) Dallas Love Field (KDAL) 05:30PM PST 10:19PM CST Scheduled

05-Jan-2008 GLF3/Q Kona Intl At Keahole (PHKO) Metropolitan Oakland Intl (KOAK) 12:04PM HST 06:35PM PST En Route


Wasn't he supposed to be "disappearing" in Kona this week? (Although we do know he was in Honolulu yesterday, but maybe he returned to Kona last night after his meetings?)




There is also this flight that suspiciously came back from the Caribbean to LA today, but made a quick turn around to Dallas and straight back to LA. (I looked some stuff up on the company though, and it looks like they're mainly Berkely alums.)


NG5U
LKM, Inc.

05-Jan-2008 C25B/Q Dallas Love Field (KDAL) Santa Monica Muni (KSMO) 03:53PM CST 05:32PM PST En Route
05-Jan-2008 C25B/Q Hollywood Int'l (KFLL) Dallas Love Field (KDAL) 01:08PM EST 03:15PM CST 3:07
05-Jan-2008 C25B/Q Terrance B Lettsome Int'l (TUPJ) Hollywood Int'l (KFLL) 09:29AM AST 11:41AM EST 3:12

[FWMustangGirl]

That could be it! Fine bit of work. Kona is only about an hour flight from Honolulu.

[couch 'em]

Since it says "unknown owner" I looked the tailnumber up on the FAA database and got these results, not sure they are current since it lists "reserved N-number": http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=973MW&cmndfind.x=14&cmndfind.y=23


Reserved N-Number
Type Reservation------------------------N-Number Change
Mode S Code----------------------53307762
Reserved Date----------------------10/04/2007
Renewal Date------------------------------ None
Purge Date --------------------------------None
Pending Number Change----------------------- 444GA
Date Change Authorized --------------------------10/04/2007
Reserving Party Name -------------------------MACDONALD DEBBIE
Street ------------------------------- 5803 GLENMONT DR
City -------------------------- HOUSTON
State --------------------------TEXAS
Zip Code --------------------- 77081-1701
County--------------------HARRIS
Country -------------------------UNITED STATES

[huskerpony]

It appears that Debbie MacDonald may be Debbie MacDonald of Transwestern Commercial Services, a national commercial real estate company that began in Texas.


The Board of Directors is huge (and no names grabbed me on first glance,) but here is the link to the corporation leadership:

http://www.transwestern.net/Corporate-Leaders.asp



Doing a search on the site for SMU/Southern Methodist, I came up with only one SMU tie--a regional president went to SMU:


Chip Clarke
President, Gulf Coast Region & Mountain Region

Chip has a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas,
and is a licensed Real Estate Broker in Colorado
and Texas

[OC Mustang]

firephil says that they came out of Orange County...try looking there too. Steinberg is in Newport...that's next door to John Wayne/Santa Ana.

Ford may have 2nd plane as well. He was originally founder and owner of Golden State Bancorp which owned CalFed...he was pretty used to going into OC, LAX, and San Fran.

[huskerpony]

firephil says that they came out of Orange County...try looking there too. Steinberg is in Newport...that's next door to John Wayne/Santa Ana.

Ford may have 2nd plane as well. He was originally founder and owner of Golden State Bancorp which owned CalFed...he was pretty used to going into OC, LAX, and San Fran.

Haven't seen anything coming out of OC. Just that one that went from the Caribbean to Hollywood to Dallas to Santa Monica all in a few hours. A couple things out of Monterrey, but that seemed too far north.

Besides, firephil also said he arrived at 5:30 yesterday, when we know per Hawaii news reports that he was still on campus at UH yesterday afternoon.