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Old 09-01-2014, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Timbo View Post
That's why I never left the airplane at an out station until the fuel truck showed up, I wanted to see which one they were going to use! Lots of line boys didn't know the difference between a turbo-prop and a recip. More than a few times the 100LL truck showed up to fuel our TURBO Commander. It didn't help that it looked a lot like a Shrike from a distance, which was a recip.

Recip airplanes with "TURBO" decals used to be prone to getting fueled with jet juice. I think the FAA ultimately issued ADs to remove all those decals.
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