Crop duster missing

The aircraft in the picture doesn't quite look like a Pawnee
to me. Is the picture flattened out a bit perhaps or is it
really some other model ?

Yes, the picture is stretched left to right. It is a Pawnee however. Maybe a
local glider club needed a tow plane? Naw, I don't think that is the case. I
wonder just how many other types of airplanes are stolen in Mexico a year?
Mac Pawnee pilot.

(Mackfly) wrote in message ...
The aircraft in the picture doesn't quite look like a Pawnee
to me. Is the picture flattened out a bit perhaps or is it
really some other model ?

Yes, the picture is stretched left to right. It is a Pawnee however. Maybe a
local glider club needed a tow plane? Naw, I don't think that is the case. I
wonder just how many other types of airplanes are stolen in Mexico a year?
Mac Pawnee pilot.


Very few. I asked my agent about that before going down there. If you
talk to the Bush Pilot Association they will tell you that everyone
has a story about a friend's plane being stolen in Mexico but if you
ask N numbers you almost always come up empty. I think they said that
there are approx 1 verifiable airplane stolen in Mexico a year
(usually a 210). My agent says he sees more planes stolen in the U.S.
with prop locks, locked hangers and wheel locks.

-Robert

(Robert M. Gary) wrote in message . com...
I think they said that
there are approx 1 verifiable airplane stolen in Mexico a year
(usually a 210). My agent says he sees more planes stolen in the U.S.
with prop locks, locked hangers and wheel locks.


There's a simple reason for that. It's much easier for a drug
smuggler to find a suitable Cessna 18x or 2xx (smugglers planes of
choice) at a U.S. airport near the border. Just take it and fly it
over.

Last time I checked, there were about a dozen planes stolen per year
in the U.S. and about 80% were the larger Cessnas stolen from states
on the Mexican border and Florida.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

it's a bad stretch of the photo.. as bad as they write laws, the also are
poor photo editors

BT

"CV" wrote in message
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Len wrote:
Not trying to be alarmist, just thinking that all of us GA folks can keep
an eye out for something odd-

http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaanews/advisory.pdf

The aircraft in the picture doesn't quite look like a Pawnee
to me. Is the picture flattened out a bit perhaps or is it
really some other model ?

CV

Odds are it was stolen by drug runners, not terrorists. That being the
case, the TSA doesn't stand a chance of catching them!

"Len" wrote in message
...
Not trying to be alarmist, just thinking that all of us GA folks can
keep an eye out for something odd-

http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaanews/advisory.pdf

Len
PP-SEL

"Dean Wilkinson" wrote in message
...
Odds are it was stolen by drug runners, not terrorists. That being the
case, the TSA doesn't stand a chance of catching them!

The TSA stands little chance of catching ANYONE other than your average,
generally-law-abiding citizen.

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
...
"Dean Wilkinson" wrote in message
...
Odds are it was stolen by drug runners, not terrorists. That being the
case, the TSA doesn't stand a chance of catching them!

The TSA stands little chance of catching ANYONE other than your average,
generally-law-abiding citizen.



Peter , Exelent point!!!!

It would be nice if the folks who published these alerts would be kind
enough to provide specific information, such as PA 25-150, 235 A, B, C, D,
PA 25-260, extended hopper, Hutcherson conversion full or partial and a
serial number not the Mexican registration, this would let you ID the
airplane clear across the ramp, not just "LOOK A PAWNEE, RUN, RUN you have
30 seconds to impact"(stolen from the we almost took out the Kentucky Gov)
"Len" wrote in message
...
Not trying to be alarmist, just thinking that all of us GA folks can
keep an eye out for something odd-

http://www.eaa.org/communications/eaanews/advisory.pdf

Len
PP-SEL