Press v. AGC Aviation LLC

STROUD, Judge.

This case started when the music stopped, in an aviatic version of the game of musical chairs-or musical engines-Avantair was playing with its airplanes. The music stopped when Avantair was forced into bankruptcy, and at that moment, defendants' airplane had no engines, while plaintiffs' airplane had two engines that were originally on defendants' airplane. Plaintiffs filed this declaratory judgment action to resolve the parties' dispute over who gets to keep the engines.

*447 Because the controlling contracts allowed Avantair to play musical chairs, plaintiffs get to keep the…