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case in point (long)

Posted by JimH on Thu Oct 03, 2002 09:06:10 AM

In reply top LOL I was thinking the same thing - :0) N/T posted by Tony on Thu Oct 03, 2002 05:51:50 AM

I flew my long cross country saturday in a 1973 C-150 Aerobat...Before I left, I went through the maint. logs for the airplane, just for the heck of it. This airplane has had so much new metal put on...mostly from wind damage...could I still call it by its serial number?..the log book did, do I care, no as long as it is sound and airworthy. This airframe has over 6000hours, and you know it has been yanked and banked by so many students that something has gotta be cracked. But...in referring to the logs I felt confident that because of the work preformed on the airframe that I had a sound airplane to entrust my life with. Granted...its a Cessna...not a Spit or some exotic warbird...but as long as it is airworthy, God love it...it is a safe flyer. I do not agree with the practice of building a new airframe around a data plate and calling it original...I think the appropriate way to "advertise" the airframe would be to designate it as a "dataplate restoration, dataplate flown by...such and such person...such and such group". In looking at the logs for my trusty Cessna...it would be a stretch to call her original...but she flies. I think that is all we can ask for when a person pours finances and hours into an airframe and rivets a "used" dataplate to the airframe to give it an identity. In essence a portion of history has been returned to the skies, maybe for another generation or two, to observe in here natural element...hopefully that long!

IMHO

Jim

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