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The Jet Center 2026-10-08 published Epstein's staff tracked arrivals at St. Thomas's private-aviation terminal: a 2012 landing under a tail number no aircraft held, and a 2014 Black Diamond Learjet whose owners were said to be bidding for the terminal.
St. Thomas Jet Center
Alliance Aviation
Jeffrey Epstein
Larry Visoski
Lesley Groff
Todd Meister
Richard Kahn
Stephen Deckoff
Black Diamond Capital Management
Signature Flight Support
Epstein
StThomas
Aviation

The Jet Center

St. Thomas Jet Center is the fixed-base operator for private aircraft at Cyril E. King Airport on St. Thomas, and runs the lower-cost operator Alliance Aviation at the same field. Michael Hancock and Susan Hancock bought it from the Boehlke family in 2002.1

On October 1, 2012 a message to Todd Meister read: "We will land at 12:15PM in St. Thomas FBO: Alliance Aviation. Tail # N3FD." Meister forwarded the message to Jeffrey Epstein and to Lesley Groff, who wrote to Epstein, copying the pilot Larry Visoski, that Meister would be "going to the island tomorrow with his Venezuelan friend and that Larry is to pick them up in the helicopter upon arrival."2 The Justice Department's Epstein Library returns 29 documents for "N3FD."3 The FAA's records list two earlier aircraft under the mark, a Wittman W-8 cancelled in 1994 and an Extra 300 exported to Germany in 2005; no aircraft was registered as N3FD in October 2012, and the mark has been held in reserve since July 2022.4

On May 16, 2014 Epstein's accountant Richard Kahn asked Visoski to "poke around tonight about Black Diamond Trading," a company he had heard was trying to buy the Jet Center. At 5:40 PM Visoski sent Kahn "LearJet 60," "N114BD" and "Is Blackdiamond," and wrote that "They arrived this evening at 7 PM in the Learjet, can you ask if you want me to introduce myself?" Kahn asked Epstein whether Larry should "meet the aircraft and poke around with them tonight." The reply from the account "jeffrey E." reads "yes why not?"5 The Epstein Library also holds a photograph of the business card of Stephen Deckoff, founder of Black Diamond Capital Management, numbered next to a screenshot of an aviation application showing a St. Thomas to Newark route at 5:40 PM.6 The FAA lists the Learjet 60, serial 166, as registered to Black Diamond Aviation Group LLC from 2004.7

In November 2018 Signature Flight Support agreed to buy St. Thomas Jet Center with Alliance Aviation, taking 49 percent at signing and the rest within 14 months.1 On April 19, 2024 the FAA registered an EC135 helicopter, N615BD, to Stephen H. Deckoff as an individual in St. Thomas.8

  1. Curt Epstein, "Signature Acquires Virgin Islands Bases," Aviation International News, November 1, 2018, https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2018-11-01/signature-acquires-virgin-islands-bases; Lori Abbotts, "St. Thomas Jet Center forms joint venture with Signature Flight Support," Virgin Islands Daily News, November 5, 2018. ↩︎

  2. U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00644307 and EFTA00403869 (Meister, "Fwd: Flight," October 1, 2012) and EFTA00403872 (Groff to Epstein, "Todd Meister," October 1, 2012), DataSet 9, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00403872.pdf. ↩︎

  3. U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, search for "N3FD," 29 results, https://www.justice.gov/epstein. ↩︎

  4. Federal Aviation Administration, Releasable Aircraft Database, DEREG.txt and RESERVED.txt entries for 3FD, and N-Number Inquiry Results for N3FD, retrieved October 8, 2026, https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=3FD. ↩︎

  5. U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA02383246 and EFTA02583238, DataSet 11, May 16, 2014, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02583238.pdf. ↩︎

  6. U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA01204007 and EFTA01204006, DataSet 9, undated. ↩︎

  7. Federal Aviation Administration, Releasable Aircraft Database, DEREG.txt entry for N112BD (Learjet 60, serial 166) and registry listing for N114BD, certificate December 9, 2004, Black Diamond Aviation Group LLC, https://registry.faa.gov/database/ReleasableAircraft.zip. ↩︎

  8. Federal Aviation Administration, N-Number Inquiry Results for N615BD, retrieved October 8, 2026, https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=615BD. ↩︎