Unmarked Aircraft at Dulles Airport

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2 June 2012.
FAA aircraft registration records show that the three Vision Airlines aircraft below are owned by International Bank of Commerce, Vision Asset Co. LLC and Wells Fargo Bank Northwest NA Trustee. Vision Asset Co. LLC is the financial unit which handles aircraft leasing for Vision Airlines. A 27 May 2010 document (in German):
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/40561767/Globaler-Airline-Newsletter-von-Berlinspotterde
"Vision Asset Co LLC ... flies mainly for the U.S. military."

http://www.airlineinfo.com/Sites/DailyAirline/web-content/ostdocket2009/ost090120.html
Vision Airlines, Inc.
May 14, 2009
Vision initially plans to conduct three weekly roundtrips between Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Gulfport, Mississippi with one Boeing 737 aircraft. In addition, the company plans to grow its fleet to five Boeing 737 aircraft to expand its ability to operate Part 380 public charters and traditional single-entity charters in international markets, as well as add five Boeing 767 aircraft that will be primarily dedicated to servicing a U.S. government contract.

http://www.airlineinfo.com/Sites/DailyAirline/web-content/ostpdf74/134.pdf
2009 Document
2. A revised pro forma income statement that identifies the costs attributable to the spare Boeing 767 aircraft to which Vision needs to have access to support its government contract operations is attached as Exhibit B." An Exhibit B note states "Variable costs include 2 spare 767 aircraft ..."

2 June 2012. Add links to photos of the very faintly marked aircraft in use for international flights as distinguished from Vision Airlines domestic US flights which have prominent markings:
Several photos taken 2007-2010 of the N767VA aircraft in Romania, Denmark and Slovakia:
http://jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?regsearch=N767VA

As an example, high-resolution photo of "N767VA (CN: 21870) Vision Airlines Boeing landing on runway 31 [in Bratislava, Slovakia] after the flight from Washington Dulles. First B767 for Vision Air. Also note the almost invisible registration:"
http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6083633

Two photos of "N768VA Vision Airlines Boeing 767-222 taken 12-03-2011 at Bucharest:"
http://img.planespotters.net/photo/176000/original/N768VA-Vision-Airlines-Boeing-767-200_
PlanespottersNet_176161.jpg (side view)
http://img.planespotters.net/photo/107000/original/N769VA-Vision-Airlines-Boeing-767-200_
PlanespottersNet_107132.jpg (underside view)

Two high resolution photos of "Vision Airlines Boeing 767-200 N768VA taken on June 6, 2011 in Dulles International Airport:"
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3112/5806868894_2a233800fe_o.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3269/5806305659_e1a7c4fb6a_o.jpg

1 June 2012. A4 sends:
Google Docs describing a Vision Airlines charter flight from Miami to Havana and return:
http://bit.ly/KnJBA8

1 June 2012. A3 sends:
Here is a map on the area you are interested in, with lots of labels. Gate 317 may be of interest to you.
http://www.mwaa.com/file/1-12-C069_SOW-AppendixA1.pdf
Copy the file to Cryptome, and host it there, and that will likely pull the file from the MWAA site when it is revealed. http://cryptome.org/2012/05/dulles-airport-map.pdf (7.6MB)
The address you seek is "45045 Echo Road" that you can find on the reference map. This is Ramp R-12 to R16. The ramps are configured for 5 larger aircraft and perhaps several smaller aircraft. The stains on the concrete suggests the common use of 4 large aircraft
Note the proximity to the subway system, for this aircraft ramp. Assets near the aircraft suggests that these are subject to very fast deployment of personnel and resources.

1 June 2012. The aircraft are discussed here, with links to photos:
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/4790586/
One link shows an aircraft with barely visible ID N767VA, owned by Vision Airlines. A photo of it in Bratislava:
http://www.planepictures.net/netsearch4.cgi?stype=reg&srng=1&srch=N767VA

1 June 2012. A2 sends:
The "unmarked" jets at Dulles belong to Vision Airlines. The one with tan engine nacelles is N767VA, which will lead you to more info via Google. The others are almost certainly N768VA and N769VA:
http://www.airframes.org/fleet/rby

A3 sends: Those planes are 767-200s rather than 737s. [If Vision Airlines, the three are 2-767s and 1-737.]
31 May 2012. A sends:
1) training aircrafts for flight crew
2) new delivery not yet painted

31 May 2012
Unmarked Aircraft at Dulles Airport
Shepherd Johnson sends:
When I flew out of Dulles on May 13, 2012, these two unmarked Boeing 737s were sitting in an area just south of the C terminal on the tarmac at Dulles. These aircraft don't have a "N" number or any other FAA identification. When I returned two weeks later they were in the same position. Any ideas?