BUSTED!!!! :-(

1:1_Scale · Post by **1:1_Scale** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:17 pm

On October 26th, I recieved a letter from the FAA notifying me that my requested N number for my -7, 32GK, had been reserved in my name. Yippee!!

Today, I recieved a letter by certified mail from John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA that my aircraft, a Cessna 310, registration number N32GK violated their noise ordinance on Dec. 18

Now, I figure I'm in DEEP kimshie over this since 1) I'm aparently flying a twin engine RV that looks like a Cessna and has not recieved an airworthiness certificate, 2) I'm taking it on long cross country flights when I haven't flown off Phase 1, 3) I'm doing this at 6:28 AM when I SHOULD be in bed with my wife, and 4) I don't even have my PPL yet, so THERE'S ANOTHER can of worms

So, should I sell my tail kit and tools now and invest the money so that when I get out of prison I can pay for the whole plane? I really am not looking forward to being Bubba's "friend"

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:34 am

That is funny! I don't care who you are, that's funny!!

How do you guys get these other emoticons?

Post by **Spike** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:20 pm

Got any good tools I might want to buy?

Spike

dons · Post by **dons** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:42 pm

That is funny. I do hope they write you back and apologize for the 'error' once you explain the status of that registration. Let us know.

jsherblon · Post by **jsherblon** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:14 pm

About a year ago I got a phone call from the sheriff's office in a county in Ohio. They were checking on some suspicious activity involving a low flying helicopter with my reserved N number.
Turns out the N number I had reserved once belonged to a helicopter in the mid-west. They seemed to believe me when I told them I wasn't a heilcopter pilot, didn't own a helicopter, and was building an airplane & had reserved the number. I still wonder if the helicopter is flying with that number.

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:05 pm

cjensen wrote:How do you guys get these other emoticons?

Hmmmm, I am not sure?

CJ

cjensen · Post by **cjensen** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:11 pm

Found it!!

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:23 pm

I knew you would!

CJ

1:1_Scale · Post by **1:1_Scale** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:18 pm

Spike wrote:Got any good tools I might want to buy?

Spike

VULTURE!

I'm fixing to be Bubba's lover and you're circling for my pneumatic squeezer and tungsten bucking bar!

Chad, I'm hi-jacking the emoticons from another site I visit

I called John Wayne and told them that it wasn't me, and it looks like it was a typo- the owner of 31GK is going to be getting a letter now

MattSR · Post by **MattSR** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:58 pm

Those Tungsten bucking bars worth while?

captain_john · Post by **captain_john** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:14 pm

MattSR wrote:Those Tungsten bucking bars worth while?

Yup!

Get them from www.buckingbar.net!

CJ

Wicked Stick · Post by **Wicked Stick** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:24 pm

captain_john wrote:
MattSR wrote:Those Tungsten bucking bars worth while?
Yup!

Get them from www.buckingbar.net!

CJ

I second that comment. If not for the fact that I've only got one last skin to rivet, and that I can borrow John's, I'd be buying one right now.

Rockyjs · Post by **Rockyjs** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:17 pm

Dave,
You gonna finish that bird this year?

svanarts · Post by **svanarts** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:49 pm

Similar thing happened to me once back when I owned my Champ. I got a fuel bill and tie-down fee sent to me from some airport in New England. I told them my Champ hadn't been east of the Rockies in 45 years. They were pretty nice about it.

Dan A · Post by **Dan A** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:51 am

I know the feeling. i got a call several years ago, when I had my T-craft, from Las Vegas FSDO telling me that my aircraft was seen buzzing homes in the city. I had never flown my plane in Nevada let alone Las Vegas. They also were very kind in handling it. And appologized!
Dan

1:1_Scale · Post by **1:1_Scale** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 3:23 pm

The lady that I spoke to was real polite about it and said that she would look into it and call me back. I got the call less than five minutes later. She didn't ask for any proof or anything

My wife got the mail and opened the letter and got a good laugh out of it from the get-go

kklewin · Post by **kklewin** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:52 pm

Glad to see it worked out....I got a call too from the FSDO in LA saying I had flown into the US illegally from mexico and had eluded some F-18s in my Aztec! Wow....I don't even have an Aztec, my RV was years away from being finished, but somehow it had my reserved N-Number on it....oh and on the day in question I was on my way to Iraqi Freedom living on a cot in the RAF Lakenheath Base Gym......they made me write a letter and I haven't heard from them since.....=)

Kurt