Your tax dollars at work

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FAA EMPLOYEE STEALS CESSNA 210 ... AND 214 OTHER THINGS?
(www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1261-full.html#199276)
Working with a government computer system that allows federal agencies
to trade between them their resources, a field technician with the FAA
in San Diego allegedly took home some 215 government owned items,
including a Cessna 210. Court papers made available Thursday indicate
investigators are still trying to discern how widespread the problem
was. "There is a great concern about who knew what about this"
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Jennings told The Associated Press,
"about whether it's something that was systemic." The employee is said
to have given the aircraft to his half-brother (along with a yacht
that the relative took to Canada, where it remains) who even managed
to get insurance for the government-owned aircraft. With that
insurance, the relative received a payment of $45,000 after the
aircraft was damaged in a 2007 storm while parked at an airport in
Louisiana. Prosecutors allege the 210 was obtained from the Forest
Service, a 44-foot Navy yacht from the ROTC, another boat previously
used by the Border Patrol, a Chevrolet K2500 truck from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ... and the list goes on.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[jimmytavino 16]

Cessna 210 is a NICE airplane.....

retractable landing gear( the pilot would extend the gear, for climb out,,, and we stood ON THE BRAKED TIRE!!!
cabin size about like a 182...

I made a bunch of jumps out of one...
( 9696 Tango ) when i first started jumping...

if I knew they were available for FREE!!!!!! i would have grabbed one...!!!

jmy