Someone broke into my airplane :(

In article .com,
"Louis L. Perley III" wrote:

Went out to the airport last night around 8:30p.m. with the
intention of doing some night stop-and-go's to regain night currency in
.....
my 152. The last time I'd flown it was Saturday (From JeffCo to
So I guess the moral is to not leave anything at all in the
airplane. I take my headset with me because I fly various aircraft and
only have one headset. I left the GPS in the 152 because it's the only
airplane without one, and it's one less thing to remember to bring when
heading to the airport. I figured that by burying it beneath the maps
and what not, it would be out of sight, out of mind. Looks like it
didn't work out that way.

Very sorry to hear about your loss, and I can imagine your feelings of
having been violated.

One thing you may want to do is check the serial numbers of any
easily-removed equipment (like tray-mounted radios). When there was a
rash of thefts here in the SF Bay area the thieves, after stealing, say,
a KX-155, would actually find ANOTHER plane with the same type of radio
and swap it for the stolen one so the S/N of the one they ended up with
wouldn't appear on any list of "hot" gear. Who knows? Maybe your GPS
was just a bonus after they were in your airplane already...

Take care,
-Patrick.