A plane hovering on a crane: some people in Gilching may have wondered about that on Wednesday morning. Here is the explanation.
Oberpfaffenhofen / Gilching - Your probably last aviation had a discarded Cessna on Wednesday morning. However, the engines of the aircraft, which many Gilchingen and Oberpfaffenhofen residents may have noticed, did not have to be started. A crane, hanging on two thick belts, transported it from the special airport in Oberpfaffenhofen to the Aero-Bildung company in the immediate vicinity. It will be used there in the future - for training purposes.
The campaign lasted a full four hours, reports Aero Education Managing Director Robert Voit. The company dedicated to this was employed between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. The Cessna first had to be towed to the edge of the airport and then prepared for air transportation. "It was attached, secured and balanced," says Voit. Bringing the machine into balance is one of the trickiest and most time-consuming tasks in such an action. “And a decent amount was necessary. We had to cross the trees, ”explains Voit. The crane boom used is 46 meters long and can carry 250 tons.
Balancing act: A lot of preparation was necessary so that the Cessna could be transported from the airport in Oberpfaffenhofen to the Aero-Bildung company premises.
Aero education has been around for 18 years, and the company has been outside the airport for ten. "But we have never had anything like this," says the managing director. The company trains aircraft mechanics and electronics technicians for the IHK degree or for international licenses, especially practical and technical. The students, who come from various companies, tweak the old airplanes and helicopters. They install and remove parts and carry out maintenance work. Among other things, the Dornier types 228 and 328 and the Bell UH-1 and BK 117 helicopters. Voit: "With the Cessna, we are expanding the variety of our training."
Voit does not want to say anything publicly about the origin and owner of the old Cessna. However, he explains that it is not so easy to get discarded planes for training. “It often takes us a long time to find aircraft. The ways are very different. Sometimes we can buy them, sometimes we get them on permanent loan. ”Usually the machines are loaded onto trucks by low loaders. Voit calls the "happy fact" that the Cessna could be lifted "quickly" by crane. He reports: “Most of the devices come from Germany, we have also bought a helicopter in New Zealand. It was broken down into parts and then brought to us. "
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