Florida wing repair

[Guest]

Looking for recommendations on a good shop for a wing repair in Southern Florida.  A client of mine had an airplane taxi into his J model today and will be needing a major repair or replacement.

Clarence

 

[ArtVandelay]

There’s a shop at KFPR that seems to specialize in major repairs with planes showing up in pieces and leaving looking new. But they mostly work on small commercial jets, but I’ve seen them work on several smaller GA planes. But I have no first hand information.

[EricJ]

Jeebuz, seems like an awful lot of taxi accidents lately, or maybe they're just becoming more evident.

 

[philiplane]

what airport is this at?

[Guest]

12 minutes ago, philiplane said:

what airport is this at?

I believe that it’s in Naples.

Clarence

[dlthig]

Day-yum! That's with 2 syllables if you aren't Southern. 

[philiplane]

1 hour ago, M20Doc said:

I believe that it’s in Naples.

Clarence

Rex Air at Naples is reputable. Call them to see if they can take this on. They mostly do Cirrus work these days, but they work on all types.

https://rexair.net/maintenance/

[Guest]

10 hours ago, dlthig said:

Day-yum! That's with 2 syllables if you aren't Southern. 

I’m northern where we speak the Queen’s English!

Clarence

[N201MKTurbo]

1 hour ago, M20Doc said:

I’m northern where we speak the Queen’s English!

Clarence

What about all those French speakers? They are harder to understand than the southerners. 

[dlthig]

In any language. It isn't going to be cheap, easy or fast. 

[aviatoreb]

13 hours ago, M20Doc said:

Looking for recommendations on a good shop for a wing repair in Southern Florida.  A client of mine had an airplane taxi into his J model today and will be needing a major repair or replacement.

Clarence

 

Its not Florida but I saw more than one airplane in the shop in AirMods in NJ of comparable or worse that came out well fixed - the shop owner Dave is a magician with major repairs and Mooneys especially.

[Schllc]

That’ll buff right out. 

[Eight8Victor]

14 hours ago, M20Doc said:

Looking for recommendations on a good shop for a wing repair in Southern Florida.  A client of mine had an airplane taxi into his J model today and will be needing a major repair or replacement.

Clarence

 

Tough luck, all repair facilities are empty as we all have covid here in FL.

[Bravoman]

How does something like that happen? Was the pilot distracted ( or not paying attention) or somehow loose control?

[Brandt]

31 minutes ago, Bravoman said:

How does something like that happen? Was the pilot distracted ( or not paying attention) or somehow loose control?

Probably a Cirrus. Safety conscious pilot likely pulled the chute but it didn’t prevent the accident…though wife was relieved….

[dlthig]

I'm guessing hand-prop that got away. Possibly a mechanical failure.

[pirate]

This is sad to see, hope everything works out for him.

[Schllc]

Pretty much has to be repaired where it is right?  I’m not sure that would get a ferry permit, much less anyone willing to try a new fly it....

(Edited to announce sarcasm in above....)

naples air center or Rexair, both are crazy busy right now so I don’t envy this guy.

probably best to try and get a new wing.

[carusoam]

See what is going on with Jake… at Daytona… 

Haven’t heard from @jclemens in a while…

-a-

[carusoam]

For a similar project going on a the same time…  but much smaller scale.

-a-

 

[Guest]

9 hours ago, Eight8Victor said:

Tough luck, all repair facilities are empty as we all have covid here in FL.

It must be a very strong variant, it’s lasted for weeks since the outbreak on the golf courses!

Clarence

[xcrmckenna]

Dang! 7 months ago I had a runaway 172 hit my plane. Did half that amount of damage to my wing. Hope he isn’t dealing with Old Republic adjusters, haven’t even started work on my plane because they haven’t authorized anything yet.


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[ArtVandelay]

Dang! 7 months ago I had a runaway 172 hit my plane. Did half that amount of damage to my wing. Hope he isn’t dealing with Old Republic adjusters, haven’t even started work on my plane because they haven’t authorized anything yet.

Really! I guess that’s why they cheapest insurance?

Have you tried repeatedly calling them, I’d ask for a supervisor, that’s ridiculous.

[Guest]

6 hours ago, xcrmckenna said:

Dang! 7 months ago I had a runaway 172 hit my plane. Did half that amount of damage to my wing. Hope he isn’t dealing with Old Republic adjusters, haven’t even started work on my plane because they haven’t authorized anything yet.


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Sorry to here of your troubles,  I can’t believe that they haven’t dealt with your repairs after so long.  
 

I’m not sure how this one will be handled.  The plane is Canadian, so Canadian insurance, but who the adjuster will be is a guess.  This one was hit by another airplane while holding short for take off.  A friend of mine in Naples is going to look it over to see how bad it is.

Clarence

[jclemens]

I spoke with the unfortunate owner this morning.  We can fix it, the problem is moving it.  De-mating the wing to and transporting it will add 20K to the repair cost.  I only trust one company to do that and they are as busy as can be, as are we.