Mystery deepens as California man’s plane keeps getting stolen, taken for a joy ride, repaired and returned: ‘There’s no real leads’

Someone keeps stealing a California man’s plane and taking it for joyrides, before returning it — and the owner can’t figure out who or why.

Jason Hong, 75, owns a 1958 Cessna Skyhawk single-engine plane. He told theLos Angeles Timesthat although he doesn’t fly much anymore, he went to visit his plane on July 27 — his birthday — only to find it wasn’t in its hangar at Corona Municipal Airport, which is just east of Anaheim.

“I got confused,” he told the paper. “I thought, ‘did I park it somewhere else, did the airport manager move it?’ But I looked all over.”…

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