Stolen fuel and ease of access causing headaches for Paul Collard and the Vanderhoof Flying Club
Private aircraft owner Paul Collard is tired of thieves stealing fuel from the floatplane he has parked along the tarmac at Vanderhoof Airport.
“We did get considerable fuel theft over the winter,” said Collard. “They siphoned my plane dry and at least three others that I know of that were parked at the airport, some on the tarmac, some on the grass.” “The big point is the airport has no security, there’s no fence, no gate, 24/7, he said. “We’ve had sporadic events before, but this winter, significant amounts of gas were stolen.”
The District of Vanderhoof received a donation last year of rolls of chain-link fence which had been used to mark the perimeter of a work camp on airport land that was used during construction of the now-completed Coastal GasLink pipeline project and that fencing material has been earmarked for the airport.
Collard suggested the airport consider a phone app system that controls gate access, like those that currently in use at storage locker facilities in Prince George. The gate is operated when a client inputs the correct code.
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