Where do you keep your logbooks?

[FloridaMan]

Where do you guys keep your logbooks?  

[MARZ]

Quote: Antares

Where do you guys keep your logbooks?  

[timpercarpio]

I keep my current flight log in my flight bag so it's always with me when I fly.  My older ones are at home with the engine and airframe logs.  If our plane is in for maintenance, then I take those with me.

[Oscar Avalle]

I keep them at home and I have scanned versions on my computer, as well as in my office. Several years ago, when I owned a PA 28, my mechanic had them and his hangar burned down! I lost them and I had a very hard time putting them together again... even so, I lost 20% of the value of the plane...

[PilotDerek]

I keep all the planes logs at the house unless the plane is getting maintenance done. My flight log I always keep in my flight bag. I have an electronic flight log on my computer as well.

[jlunseth]

Plane logs at home, pilot's flight log in my flight bag.

[DonMuncy]

Current pilot log in flight bag. Older one and all plane logs at home. Copies of all of them (updated every6 months) in a box at the hangar. Actually, I don't prefer the hangar, but the copies need to be somewhere other than home.

[kerry]

My IA says if the FAA asks for them say they burned in a house fire. lol

[1964-M20E]

Well the FAA keeps 337s that have been filed.  If I’m not mistaken the regulations state you only need to keep the last 12 months of logs.  Value of your plane dictates you keep the log books from its birth of course that depends on how old the plane is.  The older the plane and how much you paid for it factors heavily into this equation.  I feel this is less of a concern on older planes IMHO.

So if the FAA is asking you give them the last 12 months or so and if you are selling then you produce all of them. 

I keep them at the house except when I have work done on the plane.

[PTK]

All aircraft logs scanned in the computer. Original logs in a safe deposit box at the bank.

[sleepingsquirrel]

I was told to tell my wife that if anything happened and the FAA asked to see my logbooks she was to simply say that she thought my new girlfriend had them and she haden't bothered to find out who the newest one was.

[fantom]

Quote: sleepingsquirrel

I was told to tell my wife that if anything happened and the FAA asked to see my logbooks she was to simply say that she thought my new girlfriend had them and she haden't bothered to find out who the newest one was.

[Joe Zuffoletto]

Flight logs on my Mac and iPhone; aircraft logs at my A&P's shop, which is conveniently at my home field.

[danb35]

All logs at home, with scanned copies in a safe deposit box.  I don't see any reason at all to leave logs with a mechanic (or even for the mechanic to have them at all, other than at annual time).

[bnicolette]

I keep my logs at home in a fire proof safe, a digital copy on my computer which is backed up by Carbonite, plus their on my iphone and ipad.  I have several USB jump drives with the books on them and I carry one in my flight bag.  My mechanic also has one and when the books are updated I email him a scanned copy which he puts on the USB jump drive that he keeps.

Any mechanic I have used has just handed me or mailed me a log book entry that gets stuck in the log book, so really the only time the books come out of the fire proof safe is when I need to stick an updated endorsement in the book.

[jetdriven]

Quote: allsmiles

All aircraft logs scanned in the computer. Original logs in a safe deposit box at the bank.

[David Mazer]

I recently heard of an insurance company refusing to pay out the claim because the pilot logs were in the plane when it crashed and the family couldn't prove the pilot was current.  I keep my old log at home and use Zulu log on the net.

Plane's logs are in a fire resistant box in the hangar and only out when someone needs to review them.  I never leave them with a shop as they can and will hold them hostage if you have a dispute.  A sticker is what I request when work is done.

[Wildhorsesracing]

Quote: kerry

My IA says if the FAA asks for them say they burned in a house fire. lol

[Wistarmo]

1) All original logs never leave the house.

2) All logs scanned into PC

3) Electronic copies as .pdf files in GoodReader on my iPad and iPhone

4) Photocopies in a binder to travel if maintenance needed

5) Same for all manuals

 

[jnisley]

Our reconstructed (at least partially) airplane logs are in a fire-proof safe, never to be touched by any A&P/IA! The story goes something like this, bitter divorce....she has them....he has them....no one knows where they're at..he broke into his own house and stole them ...no one can touch them until divorce is settled and on and on..........Five years later, nothing. If my IA needs information he gets a photo copy of the original, nothing more.

[jnisley]

Oh, almost forgot, you can add bankruptcy to the mix.....

[danb35]

Quote: Mazerbase

I recently heard of an insurance company refusing to pay out the claim because the pilot logs were in the plane when it crashed and the family couldn't prove the pilot was current.

[Kwixdraw]

They would have records of his last medicals and track the info from there.

[Bennett]

1. Pilot's log book (current one only) in the aircraft

2. Prior Pilot's log books kept in a fireproof (fire resistant)safe in my hangar

3. Complete set of photocopies of all Pilot's log books kept in my office which is in a Class A concrete and steel sprinklered office building. Kept in a metal case. Updated every quarter.

4. Engine, airframe, and propeller logs (past and current) kept in the same fireproof (fire resistant) safe in my hangar.

I suppose I could take the time to copy everything to .pdfs and store them in the cloud, but that sounds a bit like overkill to me when I am reasonably sure that my hangar safe would survive a fire or earthquake, and it is hard to believe that I could lose my Pilot's logs and the photocopied set in a single disaster.

[jax88]

What about the major repair/alterations pages and STCs, where should those be kept?