Originally Posted by
andrasz
The most likely outcome would be aluminium cans. Without records all life limited parts need to be assumed to have zero hours/cycles left, and the cost of re-conditioning and re-certifying all such components are probably akin to buying a new aircraft.
I can conform this , in a smaller scale, a few years back the office near a hangar burned in a small airfield and all the Log books and maintenance records of a few gliders and aircraft went up in flames. . . After months of litigation with the local CAA , the aircraft could not be re-registered and were ultimately scrapped.