Someone broke into my airplane :(

Who would keep their logbooks in the plane? I keep them under lock and
key at the house. Sorry to hear of your misfortune. There isn't a tree
tall enough to swing those *******s from....

Jon Kraus
'79 Mooney 201

nrp wrote:
Bummer -

We had an incident here in western MN about 15 years ago where they
stole the engine from a Mooney in a locked hangar. They left the prop
- maybe because it wouldn't fit in their car/truck or ? They knew
what they were doing as several aircraft in the hangar had been broken
into & the logbooks out on the wing. Guess they wanted to be sure to
get a good one.

It pays to be suspicious around airports.

Jon Kraus wrote:
Who would keep their logbooks in the plane? I keep them under lock and
key at the house. Sorry to hear of your misfortune. There isn't a tree
tall enough to swing those *******s from....

For an airplane shared between several owners in a juristiction where
some of the logs have to be in the plane when it flys (Journey log in
Canada), there often isn't a viable alternative to keeping it in the
plane. The technical log on the other hand is almost never in the plane.

Fred