Two days after Tim Bosma disappeared, jurors at the trial of the men accused of killing him heard Thursday, his pickup truck was spotted in the MillardAir hangar at the Region of Waterloo International Airport – with its doors open and a tarp spread out beneath it.

That testimony came from Spencer Hussey, a familiar face around the airport who was hired by MillardAir in late 2012.

MillardAir was run by Dellen Millard, who is co-accused – along with Oakville resident Mark Smich – of killing Bosma. Both men have pleaded not guilty.

Hussey’s testimony included talk of a visit he paid to his employer’s Waterloo Region hangar on May 8, 2013, two days after Bosma disappeared.

He said that he was there to talk to Millard about company business.

Other employees were in the shop doing what seemed to be their normal tasks, he testified, but one thing struck his as unusual – a black pickup truck.

Hussey told jurors that he is now convinced it was Bosma’s truck, although on that day he had yet to hear anything about the missing Hamilton man.

He said he saw that the truck’s carpeting had been pulled out, and there was a blue tarp underneath it – neither of which, he said, were normal sights in that hangar.

Cans of spray paint were also on the ground, near the tires, Hussey testified.

Hussey said he asked about the truck, and was told Millard had purchased it from somebody in Kitchener “to save on fuel costs.”

Later in his testimony, Hussey said that Smich “spent a lot of time” with Millard, estimating that he was present on 80 per cent of the occasions Hussey saw Millard around the hangar.

Among the day’s other witnesses was Const. Steve Griffin, a Waterloo Regional Police officer who was part of the team that had Millard under surveillance following Bosma’s disappearance.

Griffin testified that he began his surveillance of Millard on May 10, and was told to focus on tracking his whereabouts and identifying anyone he may have been associating with.

He said he first found Millard in a vehicle leaving the airport area, which then stopped at a residential property on Maple Grove Road.

Griffin said he kept up his surveillance as the vehicle returned to the airport, then followed a different vehicle from the hangar to a bank in Kitchener’s Deer Ridge Plaza.

The constable said he walked into the bank to verify that Millard was one of the people in the new vehicle, and then followed it onto Highway 401.

The trial also heard from Millard’s uncle, Robert Burns.

Burns testified that the two had a “distant” relationship as Millard was growing up, but that he tried to “watch over him” because Millard’s parents had separated.

Burns is a veterinarian, and much of his testimony focused on animal cremation.

Jurors have heard that Millard ordered a large-scale animal incinerator known as ‘the Eliminator’. The Crown alleges that the Eliminator was used to burn Bosma’s remains.

Burns said he had heard secondhand that his nephew was interested in getting into the animal cremation business, but never directly discussed it with him.

The trial is now on a break until March 21.