HARD EVIDENCE: Sony executives flew from London to Seattle in a Falcon 8X on February 6, presumably to negotiate Call of Duty license with Microsoft

This can be a follow-up to my earlier submit on Microsoft-ActivisionBlizzard, Rumor of Sony having visited Microsoft to barter Name of Obligation license, probably paving approach for clearance of Activision Blizzard buy.

It’s now a longtime incontrovertible fact that Sony executives flew from London to Seattle on February 6. The more than likely clarification for that journey is that after a gathering with the UK Competitors & Markets Authority they went to go to Microsoft to debate the phrases of a long-term Name of Obligation license.

In that earlier submit, I initially made a request (which I’ve in the meantime deleted):

It might be nice if somebody with expertise in monitoring personal planes–such flight data is publicly accessible–could confirm the declare of a Sony company jet having visited Seattle final week. In case you can affirm based mostly on public data that Sony’s go to to Seattle occurred final week, please e mail me […].

In response to that request, a Twitter person named kjgvad (@g_3_r__) supplied me with a few hints:

https://t.co/36bIKAtXQf

verify Feb 6(London->Seattle->) and Feb seventeenth(LA->Seattle)? May this be it? N57SN and N60SN look the 2 more than likely to be ones belonging to Sony.

I [m]ight be incorrect nevertheless.

I clicked on the hyperlink and came upon that the airplane with the registration quantity N57SN certainly flew from London to Seattle on February 6:

So the remaining query was: does that one belong to Sony? The reply is sure:

Flickr person James Ronayne printed the above photograph, which reveals the Dassault Falcon 8X arriving into Luton airport in September 2020–and the Flickr web page states that this aircraft belongs to Sony Company (click on on the picture to enlarge):

Thanks @g_3_r__! That is big.

As @g_3_r__ additionally famous on Twitter, it is fairly frequent for such a aircraft to be (re-)register below an possession belief’s identify. Nevertheless it was registered below Sony’s identify, and Sony is the precise operator:

The screenshot says: “Proprietor / Operator: Sony Aviation”

As Twitter user @bluspacecow pointed out, that is an plane belief managed by the Financial institution of Utah. Additionally, @bluspacecow mentioned this:

Moreover, @g_3_rr acknowledged a few causes for which that is carried out:

Once more, this is a hyperlink to the earlier submit on this topic.

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