We had three FAA guys show up at a skydiving center (dropzone). After they dealt with the DZ, they started ramp checking everything that moved and in one case "grounded" a plane because they said the registration was out of date..... It was tied down, had not moved all day.
When they started doing that, I dropped off my rig and walked to the hangars. I told every single person I saw that the FAA was there and they were doing ramp checks on everything.
Sure enough they started walking to us, and as they got closer, all the hangar doors were being closed. By the time they got within conversational distance, all the hangar doors were closed and we were all sitting in chairs outside the hangars with soft drinks. They asked if we had planes at the airport and we all replied that we did. They asked if they were here, we said they were locked up in the hangars. They asked if they could see them, we said they were locked up in the hangars. They asked if they could just see the paperwork, we said they were locked up in the hangars. They started asking questions about the planes, we said they were locked up in the hangars. They asked if we were going to go fly today.... You guessed it, locked up in the hangar.
Finally they said they were not going to inspect us, just wanted to, "talk airplanes" with us.... I asked them if that was true why did they ask to see the paperwork already?
They left, upset we didn't let them look around.
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1996 Challenger II CWS - Sold 113 hours
1974 Citabria 7ECA - Sold 211 hours
RV6 Partnership - Sold
1986 Pitts S1S - Flying
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