Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Video: FAA resolves Kings issue - AOPA

Fellow pilots,

I can identify with the re-use of N numbers being problematic.

When I first N numbered my trike, I found that the number had originally been on a GA
plane.
My trike has been N numbered since around 2005.
As recently as last week, when I called 800-WX-Brief, the briefer questioned me about
the aircraft being a trike because their database still listed the number as being on a
wrecked GA aircraft.

R. Williams

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From: "jimmyg51147" <james-galvin@sbcglobal.net>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:33:24 -0000
Subject: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Video: FAA resolves Kings issue - AOPA

> Your logic is flawed in so many ways that I don't have time to detail
> all of them. Here are some: 1) "It is not their job to verify
> information given to them from a federal agency." It IS their job. And
> sooner or later it has to be done. Here they chose to verify it after
> committing all the resources detailed in the report and detaining the
> Kings. Had they done the verification prior to starting out the police
> could have spent the time eating their favorite doughnuts.
>
> 2)"The fault lies with the FAA and other agencies and possibly Cessna
> who knew this N number had a problem and should have made sure it had
> been changed." You expect Cessna or for that matter you or I to check
> EVERY data base (past, present, and particularly the obsolete ones) to
> make sure the N-number we are using is free and clear in each
> database. Please explain how we are to accomplish is task and rectify
> any discrepancies. 3) "I think that the FAA also should not reissue
> numbers from a stolen aircraft in such a short period of time or maybe
> never reissue them so something like this could not happen again." I
> don't even know where to start with this one! 4) "They acted they way
> they have been trained and the department policy." And you thought
> this was appropriate. This was hilarious. KEYSTONE COPS comes to mind.
> I got a kick out of them asking John King where the VIN number was
> located on the plane.
>
> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, medicbill@... wrote:
> >
> >
> > I believe the police acted appropriately based upon the information they recieved.
It is not their job to verify information given to them from a federal agency. The
fault lies with the FAA and other agencies and possibly Cessna who knew this N number
had a problem and should have made sure it had been changed. Especially since it had
happened before. Has this plane flown since the last time it I think that the FAA also
should not reissue numbers from a stolen aircraft in such a short period of time or
maybe never reissue them so something like this could not happen again.
> >
> > If it had not involved a high profile couple it would not even been found on the
back page of the arts section. The police were given a report of a stolen aircraft from
a government agency. The police have to depend on the reliability of that report and
act upon it appropriately. Which is exactly what they did. In todays world after 911
how can they act any other way.
> >
> > As far as how they handled the situation after the Kings landing to the police they
were conducting a felony stop. No different then they would if it was a stolen
vehicle. They had no idea who was in that plane. They acted they way they have been
trained and the department policy. To do it any other way is how police officers end up
dead.
> >
> > The fault lays with the FAA and the government agencies who handle the
registrations and the databases that the information comes from not the police who are
doing their jobs. The Kings were only detained and not arrested. Once the info was
cleared up they were released. Can it be stressful? Yes. I met the Kings at Oshkosh and
even though they may be getting up in years they both appeared to me to be tough people
and I am sure they handled it very well. Obviously they figured out a training angle
from the situation just like you would expect they would.
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