"Clyde Torres" wrote in message ...

I am not an insurance broker, but I do know a lot of pilots/owners. The 90%
is just a guess on my part, but I feel that it is close. The rising hull
insurance costs are precisely the reason that a lot of owners do not have
this insurance. You hit it right on the spot.

Where are you? I could see at some small field way out in the sticks
with mostly older planes long since paid for that a significant
(though I'll never believe 90%) number of guys cut corners on
insurance just as they do on gas, maintenance, tie-down ropes and
everything else. Maybe in the Southwest or Rocky Mountain states where
you haven't got hurricanes or tornadoes to worry so much about this
wouldn't be completely idiotic, just risky.

-cwk.