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Tribe Seizes Aircraft After Emergency Landing

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A pilot is fighting to recover his 1946 Stinson 108-1 following an emergency landing over Red Lake Nation tribal territory in northern Minnesota last month. The incident has drawn attention to a decades-old tribal resolution the tribe says established a 20,000-foot minimum altitude over Red Lake lands and renewed questions about who controls the airspace above tribal territories. Pilot Darrin Smedsmo was en route to Bemidji Regional Airport for …
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AVweb broke the news in on Monday, November 10, 2025.
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