Pearoast from an earlier bread.
I have a theory about these 2-reg planes. I suspect that these former civilian planes were re-registered in Guernsey and tagged as 'military' for a reason and that reason ties into Business Aviation Services in Guernsey.
BAS's website offers some slightly iffy services, such as 'extrication if your plane gets impounded' or the offer of a Dreamliner as a 'penthouse in the sky'.
This has been set up as a network of 'wheelmen' and delivery services, a sort of 'Grand Theft Auto' but using planes instead of cars. As they are 'military' (despite the plane's former civilian history) they don't have to undergo the same clearances, customs or immigration checks that we have to endure.
In short, they are the pretty much the perfect setup to support dodgy money laundering, either via plane mortgages or by delivering iffy financial documents that someone doesn't want seen. They aren't quite 'ghost planes', but they would attract less attention than normal military traffic and could be transporting people that don't want their movements to be tracked, a sort of taxi service for the uber-wealthy.
Anyone care to comment on this?