[JYO] Airport re-opened

 
 
 
 
JYO was re-opened yesterday afternoon, subject to a short closure today to  
have a crane lift the steel mats back onto a truck. Airport management moved as 
 quickly as possible to get things back to normal, but there were quite a few 
 aircraft and owners inconvenienced by this outage. Don't think we don't know 
 that !

This unfortunately was one of those weird 'it happened in just the  wrong 
spot' accidents compounded by the new types of materials found in today's  
airplanes, which is not conducive to calling the local towing firms and 
dragging  it 
onto a flatbed (like we normally do). Recovering the aircraft using normal  
methods (used by our list of companies on-call, which we update frequently)  
could quite easily have turned the aircraft from 'repairable' to 
'unsalvageable' 
 in about 30 minutes. The airport would have been open almost immediately, 
but  the airplane would have been junk.

The aircraft was recovered by two  massive construction cranes using special 
slings (specific to the Premiere)  flown in by Raytheon. 

Thanks for everyone's patience,

Dennis  

Premiere at JYO 
Posted by: "Dennis B. Boykin IV" _boykin_dennis@boykin_de_ 
(mailto:boykin_dennis@xxxxxxxxx)   boykin_dennis 
Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:53 am (PST) 

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