A Clermont County mail-order company that specializes in general aviation pilot supplies is cooperating with the FBI investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

        Sporty's spokesman Bill Anderson confirmed Saturday night that his company has provided the purchase history of several people to the FBI.

        The 40-year-old business, located at Clermont County Airport, employs 250 people and is described as one of the nation's largest suppliers of general aviation pilot supplies.

        “Virtually every student pilot in this country and many throughout the world know about Sporty's,” said Mr. Anderson. “All pilots know about us.”

        The New York Daily News reported Saturday that terrorists who slammed jetliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon bought life-size training posters of the inside of the jet cockpits from Sporty's catalog.

        The $39.95 posters show the exact locations of controls and detail the view the pilots would have from the Boeing 767s they rammed into the twin towers, according to the Daily News.

        Mr. Anderson declined to confirm the Daily News account, saying it was up to the FBI to release such information.

        The report said the FBI gave Sporty's a list that included some of the hijackers, as well as others.

        Mr. Anderson declined to say which items were purchased.

        The owner of Sporty's, Hal Shevers, said, “If you can learn to fly a plane from a cockpit poster, you must be a genius.”

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