If you ever flew Twin Star 9ES and wonder about its whereabouts… after the sale earlier this year it was handed over to the buyer in Tracy, CA (KTCY), and after a number of registration-related hurdles were taken the plane has been flown to India.
The most direct way would go NW-bound through Russia, which is obviously not a good idea anymore for a number of reasons.
Instead, with an extra 10%, the resulting ~65 hour/~10,000 nm flight took a much safer route from California via Goose Bay, South Greenland, Iceland, Belgium, Italy, Crete, Egypt, Saudi-Arabia and Oman to India (click on the map to see a larger version).
We salute 9ES and hope she will help mint many multi-engine pilots going forward!