A short time ago I conveyed a story to the LML of how my newly acquired 360 was valued at $475,000 by my friendly assessor.  I quickly sent in all the paperwork requested that showed it was not a IV PT!

I was surprised when one of the aircraft evaluators called me to ask some questions about the airplane.

As she was talking to me she said she was looking at a picture of it taken last October.  That puzzled me what picture she was looking at.  I went home and did an N number search on my tail #.  To my surprise a lot of information came up.  And not just the FAA.gov stuff!

 

My picture showed up on some web site called Irishairpictures.com.  Some photographer snapped a picture of it while I was at an airshow and that happened to be the one the tax lady was looking at.  The other surprising thing was that every email I wrote to the LML that had my tail # with my signature also showed up, obviously from the archives.  I searched on a few other random tail #'s that members list with their email and there's plenty of information on all of them!!  Especially when people on the builders list show budgets and $$ spent!

 

So I guess this is just a friendly reminder, if you don't want to show it to the world, be careful what you write.  Unfortunately, there isn't much I can do about those crazy poparazzi!

 

Steve

no tail # available!!