john smith wrote:
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"Peter Duniho" wrote:

"LWG" wrote in message
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And then there was the FAA inspector who tagged an aircraft with a Q-tip
prop because he thought it had prop damage. True story, happened back in
the late-70's, early 80's.

I heard it was a "she" who tagged the Q tip. Owner thought it was joke his
buddies were playing on him.



Yes it was a female that did the tagging along for various alleged
violations. If I remember correctly it was on one of the Phoenix area
airports. We had a client whose aircraft was there for maintenance that
got tagged for having 3" N numbers. He forwarded the violation letter
that he got to us as our boss was also his DAR. Turns out it was some
female within the DC office that wanted to get transferred to the
Flight Inspection group. She tagged something like 60 aircraft and
wrote up violation letters on them all to try and prove how good of an
inspector she was. Turns out that nothing she tagged was a violation
and it created a big headache for a couple of the FSDO's for a week or
two. Time frame was around 1989.