BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK

UNCLAS STATE 128866 SIPDIS PRETORIA FOR MADELINE SEIDENSTRICKER E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ETTC KOMC SF SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE 050174483 REF: 2006 BLUE LANTERN GUIDEBOOK ¶1. This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. ¶2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 050174483 for the export of one (1) International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)-controlled Bell UH-1H helicopter to South Africa. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern inquiry within 45 days. Lack of response to a Blue Lantern inquiry will affect pending and future licenses involving parties to this license. ¶3. Reason for request: Foreign end-user is a non-military entity; verify compliance with Proviso 1 of the license approval. ¶4. ACTION: The Department requests that Post confirm that the foreign end-user, Leading Edge Aviation, is in continued possession of the aircraft and that it is being used for the purpose stated on the license application. Post is also asked to verify that the subject helicopter is not militarily configured and that all fixed hard-points have been removed, as was required prior to export of the aircraft per Proviso 1 (see para 4) of the license approval. END ACTION. ¶5. Details of license application: DTC CASE: 050174483 QUANTITY/COMMODITY: 1 - Bell UH-1H Helicopter, used condition License Value: 850,000.00 USD (COMMENT: According to US Customs data, the helicopter was exported on 9 July 2009. END COMMENT) SELLER: Billings Flying Services Inc. 6309 Jellison Road Billings, MT 59101 Tel: 406-252-6937 POC: Gerhart Blain FOREIGN CONSIGNEE: Leading Edge Aviation CC Hangar A-1 Nelspruit Municipal Airport Nelspruit 1200 South Africa Tel: 013-741-3654 POC: Charmaine Jackson Email: jackson@soft.co.za FOREIGN END-USER: Leading Edge Aviation CC Hangar A-1 Nelspruit Municipal Airport Nelspruit 1200 South Africa Tel: 013-741-3654 POC: Charmaine Jackson Email: jackson@soft.co.za PURPOSE: Leading Edge Aviation intends to use this helicopter for fighting forest fires in South Africa. ¶6. Submitted in support of license application 050183769 were the following documents (PM/DTCC will fax documentation to Post upon request): --Purchase Order from Leading Edge Aviation, dated 3 June ¶2009. --Non-Transfer and Use Certificate (DSP-83),signed by Mark Arthur Jackson of Leading Edge Aviation and M.M. Mogotsi, Deputy Director: HPU, Office of the Defense Secretary, dated 11 June 2009. --Department of State License for Permanent Export of Unclassified Defense Articles and Related Unclassified Technical Data, signed 11 June 2009, approved 6 July 2009. ¶7. Please slug reply for PM/DTCC - BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR and include the words "Blue Lantern" and the case number in the subject line. POC is Meredith Sundlof. Phone: 202-663-3455; Email: SundlofME@state.gov; SIPRNET: SundlofME@state.sgov.gov. The Blue Lantern Guidebook (ref) is available as a PDF file at http://www.intelink.sgov.gov/wiki/Blue Lantern End-Use Monitoring Program. ¶8. Department is grateful for Post's assistance in this matter. CLINTON