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a little (true) story about a small airfield and Homeland security
My moms Uncle had decided to learn to fly..so he bought a cessna 185,( i had mistakenly believed it was a 172 before),built a runway.pavement..built a hanger and a small house..hired a pilot to train him in flight and moved the pilot and his family into the house while he learned to fly...then after he got his lic..the family moved out and he used it as a rental...
about a month ago my moms cousin started getting phone calls..they were odd calls..asking odd questions and she got spooked and would just hang up.after the 12th or so hang up..she answered the phone one day and heard a guy yelling "PLEASE DONT HANG UP..PLEASE DONT HANG UP.." so she said ok you have 5 minutes..i have your number on my caller ID ..then i call the local PD and give em ya number....he says..listen..im with homeland security..my name is.___________ and i need to ask you about your private airport.she says...uh...we dont have one..so he says..well you are _______ and yer at ______ and your father was _____ and he was a pilot of a cessna 185 and had a runway and...so about this time the cousin says..OMG id forgoten about that......
silence.....
he says huh?.....she replies...well the runway is now a leeve road on our farm...the hanger burned down in the 70s and the house was torn down in the 80s.....
he says..wheres the airplane?? she says..well my brother traded it to a farmer down the road for a cotton picker in the mid 90s....should be paper work somewhere...he laughed said oh ok...well it shows as a working airport on some (get this) simulators..and were checking things out....and he accually refered to MS FS9 cof...i checked..its there..
Willis Ranch 75CL,Dos Palos Ca
he then went on to tell her they are checking these types of airports for terrorist type activity....she says...says....she said to him..dont you think it would be more effective to go look?....
My moms Uncle had decided to learn to fly..so he bought a cessna 185,( i had mistakenly believed it was a 172 before),built a runway.pavement..built a hanger and a small house..hired a pilot to train him in flight and moved the pilot and his family into the house while he learned to fly...then after he got his lic..the family moved out and he used it as a rental...
about a month ago my moms cousin started getting phone calls..they were odd calls..asking odd questions and she got spooked and would just hang up.after the 12th or so hang up..she answered the phone one day and heard a guy yelling "PLEASE DONT HANG UP..PLEASE DONT HANG UP.." so she said ok you have 5 minutes..i have your number on my caller ID ..then i call the local PD and give em ya number....he says..listen..im with homeland security..my name is.___________ and i need to ask you about your private airport.she says...uh...we dont have one..so he says..well you are _______ and yer at ______ and your father was _____ and he was a pilot of a cessna 185 and had a runway and...so about this time the cousin says..OMG id forgoten about that......
silence.....
he says huh?.....she replies...well the runway is now a leeve road on our farm...the hanger burned down in the 70s and the house was torn down in the 80s.....
he says..wheres the airplane?? she says..well my brother traded it to a farmer down the road for a cotton picker in the mid 90s....should be paper work somewhere...he laughed said oh ok...well it shows as a working airport on some (get this) simulators..and were checking things out....and he accually refered to MS FS9 cof...i checked..its there..
Willis Ranch 75CL,Dos Palos Ca
he then went on to tell her they are checking these types of airports for terrorist type activity....she says...says....she said to him..dont you think it would be more effective to go look?....
