It is alleged that they were part of a conspiracy to import the drugs at the beginning of October 2003.
Richard Styles (35), Joseph Day (35), Joseph Carney (27) and Cliff de Sousa (28) all deny conspiring to import cannabis between 1 July and 6 October 2003.
Opening the case for the Crown, Advocate Stephen Baker told the jury of six men and six women how the plan had come together.
He said that Styles, the pilot, had hired a light aircraft in High Wycombe and flown to an airfield in the north of England to pick up the drugs as well as Day and Carney, who are from Liverpool.
From there the three are alleged to have flown on a course to Dinard in Brittany which passed over Jersey.
Advocate Baker said that the plan was to throw three holdalls containing 90 kg of cannabis out of the plane on to a model aircraft landing strip at Les Landes.
However, they missed the target.
The drugs landed in a garden in L’Etacq near the former Lobster Pot restaurant and were then found by some children out playing.
It is alleged that de Sousa’s role was to pick up the drugs with a fifth man who has pleaded guilty to the charge faced by the four defendants.
The trial, which is expected to last for more than two weeks, continues.
