Importing a Glider from Canada to US

One more little tid-bit concerning importing a Canadian glider. The gentleman we sent to pick up the ship had a prior misunderstanding concerning the possession of a controlled substance and the Canadians wouldn't let him in the country! The seller had to meet him at the border, shove the trailer across the border, load the ship and hand shove it back across the border whereupon he departed South, glider in tow, waving a fond farewell to the Canadian authorities with his social finger.
:) JJ

On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 11:54:11 AM UTC-6, JJ Sinclair wrote:
One more little tid-bit concerning importing a Canadian glider. The gentleman we sent to pick up the ship had a prior misunderstanding concerning the possession of a controlled substance and the Canadians wouldn't let him in the country! The seller had to meet him at the border, shove the trailer across the border, load the ship and hand shove it back across the border whereupon he departed South, glider in tow, waving a fond farewell to the Canadian authorities with his social finger.
:) JJ

The Canadians also don't take kindly to those who've had DUI convictions. Here is some info:

http://www.himsprogram.com/Content/H...adianEntry.pdf

I spent an hour and a half trying to get into Canada with a box of vintage sailplane association Tshirts. Apparently they were very worried that I was going to set up a black market T-shirt shop while I was there.

Getting the glider into the US was easy from my perspective but my customer had hired an import agent to dot the i's and cross t's. I handed them a pile of paperwork. I ran through the xray thing the semis go through to check for illegal aliens and they had a look in the front of the trailer and I was back in the USA