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We have actually fixed worse. Must be an older airplane, old enough to where it was better to total it. Like with our cars, this is a decision made between the insurance company and the carrier.
A lot of the structural parts on that airplane are out of production. We do keep an inventory of spares but, like in the automotive world, as it gets older the only spares get to be the most commonly needed.
For the bigger structural parts, we would go to the junkyard, again, just like our cars. We have picked apart many an airframe in the Arizona desert to support repairs like this one. It must not be financially advantageous in this case.
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Jeff
'72 911T 3.0 MFI
'93 Ducati 900 Super Sport
"God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the world"
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