Wind damage to aircraft at Denton, Texas

[baronbeeza]

From another forum....

Wind Damage from last night. About a dozen airplanes damaged/destroyed and several buildings. Just some of the damage. One of the large bulk hangars for Business Air lost all of the doors on the east end of their hangar. It houses almost all their charter fleet.

First pic is U S Aviation Flight School.

[Barnsey]

That's one way of renewing the fleet. Hope they were well insured.

[johnnyfalcon]

The average price of used Cessnas just went up...a little

[baronbeeza]

I was thinking of NZ fleet renewal when I posted. It was a heads up that these machines will be up for tender in the coming weeks.


I used to go down to Wigram and look after the aircraft moored outside whenever a strong Southerly was about to come through.
I spent a lot of time driving stakes and tying the nosewheel hard to the deck. My reasoning was the aircraft can rock and weathercock and the likes but it won't flip if the nose stays put.
I never tied the tail if the nose was secured.

The majority of these Cessna's have lost their tails due to the tail being tied down. The rest of the aircraft may not be too badly damaged.

You can imagine how a tail section would behave once it has broken free though. Like a kite I would think...

[ZacYates]

Oh lord, that's incredible!!!

[baronbeeza]

During Monday night's storm the power was knocked out to the ASOS. It only recoded 60 to 65 kt wind. But the tower has a separate system. Their peak gust was 94 Knots. One of the casualties of a hangar door falling was a Piaggio Avanti.