“Private plane pilots, especially those traveling to or through states with relaxed marijuana laws, are being subjected to warrantless searches by state and federal law enforcement, the Toledo Blade reported Monday. ‘None of the stops resulted in anything being found,’ said Steve Hedges, a spokesman for the owners and pilots association. ‘In most cases, the pilots were stopped and held while their planes were searched… I’m told one pilot was asleep in a motel room with his wife when agents kicked the door down and took them back out to the airport to search his plane, only to find nothing there.’ The pilots’ group has filed Freedom of Information Act requests for documentation justifying the searches.”
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/sep/09/private_plane_pilots_facing_searches