Ron Wanttaja wrote:

: That's the other factor of course. I've only seen tailhook installation on
: taildraggers, but I doubt that, on trigear airplanes, they merely unscrew
: the tiedown ring and screw in the hook release mechanism. There's probably
: reinforcement that's added as well, which would make moot any comparison to
: pulling the plane by the stock tiedown ring.

FWIW, the banner tower based at my field uses a Cessna Hawk XP. The banner
tow point is the tail tiedown. I asked if there are any reinforcements
added, and he said "No.".

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Aaron Coolidge (N9376J)