Alan,
Happy to know that your task is almost done. Hope to meet up with you
at SNF, along with the usual crew...
Jeff - Baby Blue
251 hours
Alan Burrows wrote:
>
> Hello All
> After many arduous and stressful battles with the U.S. customs (and lots of
> money changing hands), my Europa finally arrived here in Spruce Creek
> Florida at 4pm this evening. Tomorrow I will start the delicate unpacking
> process and hope not too many parts are damaged. The whole process involved
> me being considered a "dodgy character" (some may agree with that view) by
> the customs authority and having the aircraft moved to a secure storage
> facility where it could be thoroughly searched for illicit contraband. The
> container had three separate holds placed on it and was only released after
> many irate phone calls from me and a thorough in depth search by the men in
> power. Oh yes and did I mention the fact that they were charging me storage
> whilst they had the container. They released the container ( and the
> aircraft) yesterday and our trucker turned up today to collect it all only
> to be told that they couldn't release it as the " Inspection fee" had not
> been paid.... it had but they just didn't look at the right bank account for
> it! SO more irate phone calls and we were finally informed that they had
> found the money and we could have the container. The trucker had been there
> from 11am to 2.30pm waiting for it. But now it's here as you can imagine,
> life is good again. And tomorrow we start battle with the FAA.
> Hope to see everyone at Sun 'n Fun.
> Happy Flying and building
>
> Cheers
>
> Alan
>
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