I have an old Airborne Ti hardtail. It's eleven years old and the frame will probably last forever.
This doesn't having anything to do with the OPs situation, hopefully now resolved, but I just had to reply to your mention of an Airborne frame. I have a Flyte Arsenal road frame.. which is basically an Airborne Zeppelin. Flyte was a very short lived attempt to keep Airborne alive with a new company name in the wake of their legal battles with Huffy Corp. I guess there is now an Airborne Bicycles Company again, but separate (legally) from the original corporation. They were gone just long enough to be able to deny me any warranty claims.
I managed to crack that Arsenal frame in the drive side chainstay after about 3 years and 30,000 miles of riding. I kept that frame and let it sit around gathering dust for a couple years before I finally found a friend with connections and got it welded. I kept it as a backup road bike to my carbon Roubaix and will start using it more often for bikepacking since it has a better geometry for frame bags than the Roubaix does.
I lived in the Dayton area where Airborne/Flyte was located, and have many friends who had or still have Airborne frames. Many of them have also broken the frames, and one friend managed to go through three of them: 1 Zeppelin and 2 Torches. Granted is a strong, muscular sprinter type guy who can put a ton of torque on a bike frame.
Anyway... I love my Arsenal and hope that it does indeed last forever (with an occasional weld or two). Hope yours does as well!
