If the thief had a legal right to be inside the fence, then you are
leaping to a false conclusion that this incident is evidence of weak
security at GA airports.

"Skylune" wrote in message
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From AV Web:
"Seneca Stripped While Parked

By Russ Niles
Newswriter, Editor

A Cedar Falls, Iowa, man who local media reports say is an officer of
his
local EAA chapter has been charged with systematically stripping parts
from
a disabled Piper Seneca to be used in his own homebuilt project. John
M.
Norcero was arrested last Tuesday and charged with first-degree theft.
The
Seneca, owned by Jerry Dwyer, of Clear Lake, has been sitting at the
Waterloo Airport since it landed there after an engine failure about
five
years ago. Dwyer told the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier he noticed an
engine and prop missing in August of 2004. Now, both engines, the
landing
gear, instrument panel, autopilot and seats are gone. "It's just
sitting
there on the ground ... flat on its belly," Dwyer said. Dwyer, who
owns an
aircraft sales company, said he left the plane in Waterloo because he
was
having a hard time finding a replacement engine. Even with the blown
engine, he estimated the plane to be worth $100,000 and he figures it
will
cost at least $50,000 to reinstall the missing parts and fix damage
caused
during their removal. "[The thief] chopped a hole in the side of the
damn
thing to get the autopilot out," he said. Norcero was booked at the
local
jail and then set free on a pre-trial release a few hours later."

At least they caught the thief/pilot. How can this type of stuff keep
happening? The lack of security at most GA airports is really
apalling.
Its pilots like the above mentioned clown, the morons who ignore noise
abatement, who (attempt) to take off from freeways after running the
tanks
down to fumes, etc. that are gonna ruin it.

It really is amazing. Mostly all of the bad press GA gets is SELF
INFLICTED by the few cowboys who refuse to abide by any rules of law
or
common courtesy.