Thunderbird Aviation

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Only positive- nice new building. I rented a cessna 172 for the first time from thunderbird this summer. For an aviation company being around for 50+ years they seemed as if it was their first day in business... Their prices were ridiculous for an out of date cessna 172. I got to the airport and signed out the aircraft and asked for an extra headset for my passenger. The headset that was given to us was a 1980s model David Clark that was complete junk. The mic would not even stay in position unless it was held up by the person wearing it. When we got to our plane it had less than half tanks (when I made the reservation i told them it would be 2 150lb people and would need full tanks for our flight.) now we had to wait another 25 minutes to get fuel because the line guys were busy filling 3 other aircraft ahead of ours. The plane was filthy with candy wrappers and empty water bottles under the seats and on the floor. This aircraft had not been washed in weeks, maybe months with dead bugs all over the leading edges and windshield. The autopilot was inop and the GPS database was outdated. The NAV2 VOR was inaccurate. Oil level was at 4 quarts!!! Way to low for a 172. It was clear they do not take care of their rental/training aircraft to keep them appealing to the customer. DO NOT fly their piper aircraft. They are old old old and seem like those engines will quit at any time. Paint is chipping all over the place and hail damage on the airframe. I don't understand how they think that looks good to a customer? I feel bad for the instructors. Management keeps them in the back room and they have to be there 8 hours a day and only get paid for the time hey are instructing which some days there is no instructing because not enough students to go around to all their instructors. I would not recommend renting or getting flight instruction from thunderbird because their aircraft are junk and their prices are ridiculous. They care more about transient aviation business now that they opened their new facility. Disappointed non returning customer....

ALL U.S customers and airlines be extremely careful there is a fake flight school and college that does not follow government regulations, F.A.A Rules to operate aircraft the school is Named Thunderbird Aviation it is located in Crystal, Minnesota and Academy College They are flying damaged aircraft over charging customers they also do not have well qualified pilots to train customers. They also have extremely very old aircraft that has no radar system any type of electrical system to locate an aircraft. The company is very discriminative when a different skin color comes in to there building they give racial face expression, they continue to say very racist words they also call other flight schools that is not apart of them and destroy there retention that they have for future pilots. They do not follow F.A.A rules or regulations of operating aircraft on ground our in the air they also do not maintenance there aircraft as routine basis they fabricate record books and write them up. There aircraft's do not have engine hooks and latches that are trustworthy there is cracks on the aircraft wings screws are bad worn The radio Systems are very old they do not communicate the landing gears on the aircraft's are leaking oil very bad the engine are in very bad condition but enough to fly a 2,000 feet not pass The aircraft gauges are very terrible and does not show intention of gravitation They pilots do not have high qualification to fly any customers they need very tremendous amount of additional training including job exp in order to train pilots according to F.A.A regulations. They pilots are very high on alcohol and also nicotine they fly very unsafe were there is not enough enough attention given to the customer. The Pilots are very discriminative to customers such as black or any ethnic considered different then them. Managers and Presidents also do not comply with F.A.A rules at all they they always tell customers we do not have enough money to repair please do not tell anyone please give us some time or they co to other flight school and take there aircraft and fly it that same day with no permission F.AA or insurance company Customers airlines be very safe do not by any chance go near Thunderbird Aviation totally wash your hands before you are sitting behind bars because they no how to lie Academy College and Thunderbird Aviation is a fake flight school and college stealing thousands of dollars from the government big time . Academy college is giving fake accredited Operations Managers are very discriminative to black customers our any pertaining different ethnics then them the continue to abuse customers with racist actions and man treat them to the point of calling other flight schools to defend them to lie against another customer and start calling Different Government offices and police departments so they can put somebody into a deadbeat. Recently a black 27 year old male was interested in flying airplane he was a little scared on how to go about he needed a little help in terms of finance and flying he had close to $50,000 cash set into his account as from what we where told he wanted a solid plan where he can have a bright future and a good career the flight continuously tried to fraud him because he was a black boy or they thought he had a lot of cash. They then went to another located ten miles from them and started complaining about him in a very discriminating manner they brain washed the flight school to a total point that they started pordgeing terrible phone calls to the Crystal, Blaine police department located in Minneapolis, Mn. They also then brain washed the police officer and and the police officer decided to call a black police officer that officer came in they started to brain wash him so they can get him on the sa...