Airplane keys

A friend (A) with a '51 Bonanza had someone (B) drive him 150 miles to
retreive it from being weathered-in a week earlier. On arrival, A
found he had forgotten his keys but his non-pilot driver (B) suggested
the friend try some of Bs key ring just-in-case they could force the
lock. The friend found not one, but two keys that would work.

nrp wrote :
The friend found not one, but two keys that would work.

Pretty common. There are only 5 or 6 different types of keys. I
carry three different airplane keys and can get into quite a number of
airplanes. While trying to assist a transient pilot that was locked
out of his plane, I found that none of my three airplane keys would
work. Just for fun, I tried the key to my office file cabinet. It
worked perfectly.

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

wrote:
nrp wrote :
The friend found not one, but two keys that would work.

Pretty common. There are only 5 or 6 different types of keys. I
carry three different airplane keys and can get into quite a number of
airplanes. While trying to assist a transient pilot that was locked
out of his plane, I found that none of my three airplane keys would
work. Just for fun, I tried the key to my office file cabinet. It
worked perfectly.

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

When I worked at an avionics shop, we kept a small box of misc. keys around
for when owners would drop the plane off after closing and forget to
leave the key.

It usually took no more than 2 or 3 tries to find a key that worked.

--
Jim Pennino

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