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Old 11th Jul 2015, 07:19
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I accept your point plovett.

however I see the other side of the experience.
take my mate freddoh and his little vintage cessna 150.
it was rebuilt by a victorian LAME out of two aircraft one a crashed fuselage and one a crashed wing. the undamaged bits were married into one aircraft.
the aircraft is still the only cessna I've flown that has no need for control trim tabs it is such a straight airframe.
lived all its life in a hangar.
I don't believe it needs a sids teardown.
it is totally uneconomic to do the program and as a result a perfectly serviceable cessna will end up being scrapped.

I'd take the aeroplane out and fly it now.
I have a pretty good idea what it is like inside.
I've done work on it.

another cessna 150 I know of is sitting in a hangar somewhere in the eastern states.
it has a total of 300 hours on it.
the owner has had medical problems for decades evidently.
the sids cost will probably see it scrapped eventually.

hang your heads in shame CAsA.
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