On 29 September 2008 I took the attached picture of a Jet Ranger flying over New York. Not the best of pictures but it has sparked off an interesting debate which hopefully members here can add to/assist with.
The registration appears to be N32ZA or possibly N22ZA although there also appears to be something under the paintwork suggesting Nx9xA.
N22ZA has pictures in the databse showing it is a Long Ranger in a similar colourscheme. N99ZA is a Jet Ranger in the scheme in on-line pictures from the period although later pictures show it with the colour sweep up the tail that the Long Ranger has. The operator would appear to be ZIP whose titles appear on the Long Ranger and have a later picture on N99ZA on their website. They no longer own either of these aircraft.
I believe my picture to be of N99ZA but that for some reason it has been painted up as either N22ZA or N32ZA. The registration history shows that it was never registered in either of these marks. There appears to be no reservations for change of N numbers at the time. N32ZA has been a Zenair for some time.
Did anyone see or photograph N99ZA at the end of Sptember 2008? Was there anything special happening that would have caused false marks to be painted for photographic reasons?