I was going to say it sure doesn't look like an AIA model.

Another way to reload AI aircraft is to save a flight and then load it.

 

Sadly not: that is exactly what I was doing (and moving between airports between reloading, just to 'make sure'), but the rogue a/c still showed up. That's what foxed me. It was only by restarting FS9 that I found the correct a/c.

I said reload, not remove...

I said reload, not remove...

 

I don't know what you mean by 'reload' then. If you 'reload' a saved flight after you have removed some of the AI folders and the sim looks exactly the same, with the same a/c you have taken away at the same stands as before, in what useful sense is that reloading?  As I say, it's doing just that which meant I spent hours trying to find the faulty a/c.

"Reload an AI Aircraft" means to reload that aircraft with any changes to the MDL or aircraft.cfg files.  This was in reply to people discussing changing the livery of that plane by swapping textures.