4/5/12 Email sent from Norman Echelberry to
Ormond Beach staff requesting information
City Manager Joyce Shanahan,
I have three questions. I believe this may need to be sent to the Law
Department/City Attorney but I could not find contact information on the City
web site.
Question 1:
On March 6, 2010 (the date I found online) Ormond Beach filed a court injunction
to stop an aviation School (Euro American School of Aviation) from flying planes
because it was operating without liability insurance.
I could not find any follow up on this issue and am requesting to know if that
requirement was met and how often this requirement is checked by the City of
Ormond Beach? Also which Department checks it and has records for these
documents for future inquiries?
Question 2:
July 9, 2011, a Euro American School of Aviation aircraft N9202C, crashed at the
Ormond Beach Airport. According to NTSB’s current records the investigation
results are still not released as of April 5, 2012. Will the City of Ormond
Beach attempt to recover costs related to the crash (fire/police/etc.) from Euro
American School of Aviation?
Comment and Question 3:
For the past several years I have been involved in complaints about noise and
safety issues involving flight schools operating at the Ormond Beach airport.
During this time I have accumulated hundreds and hundreds of photographs of
aircraft, mostly flight schools flying in the area.
I have notice checking registrations lately through the FAA site, that several
aircraft that were previously registered with the FAA as “Ormond Beach Aviation”
or “Euro School of Aviation” are now registered in a “naming scheme” using “Fly
4 Fun XX Inc. (The XX being a different lettering system for each plane, such as
“1D”, “75”, “5N”, etc.)
The address for all the Fly 4 Fun aircraft is 108 W. 13th Street,
Wilmington, Delaware.
When researching this address on the internet it is an office building with
hundreds of corporations listed there, not all Fly 4 Fun and different types of
companies. That address appears to be just an office for companies to use when
filing as a corporation through it.
What I am concerned about, and others should be, is if one of the Fly 4 Fun
aircraft crash, example into a nearby restaurant or the City sport fields off
Hull Road, attempts to contact someone at this address or recover any damages or
responsibility would be going back to the registered owner of the aircraft,
which could be possibly an empty office used as a mailing address?
Is there any significance to why they may be doing this for each aircraft to
avoid liability or insurance?
Norman Echelberry
1032 Shockney Dr.
Ormond Beach, Fl 32174
386-677-9507
normanechelberry@earthlink.net
Cc: Vince Kinsler