FARMINGTON – A judge ordered a Greene man to pay $86,000 for damage done to a Cessna airplane and at least $600 a month during his two-year probation after prison.

Travis Therrien, 26, had pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal mischief in early February and was ordered Friday to serve one year of a three-year sentence and two years probation.

Therrien was charged in June after he admitted to police he had been drinking at a bar in Carrabassett Valley and walked across the street to the airport and started the Cessna in full-throttle. The plane pulled away from its tie-downs and crashed into another Cessna at the Carrabassett Valley Airport, heavily damaging both planes.

Therrien appeared in handcuffs Friday in Franklin County Superior Court in an Androscoggin County Jail uniform, and testified to his financial situation before Justice Michaela Murphy sentenced him.

Replying to questions asked by his attorney, Josh Robbins, Therrien told the court when work was good he made from $700 to $2,000 a week installing drywall. He finds it difficult to get jobs because he has three prior felonies and has no driver’s license because of three drunken-driving convictions.

He won’t be able to get his license reinstated for at least three years, he said.

He is married and although he has no children with his wife, he owes $8,000 in child support for a child in Ohio. He was arrested recently for not paying that support, which is about $100 a month, he said.

Assistant District Attorney James Andrews said one plane owned by Tom Carey of Carrabassett Valley and Peter Gorman of Kingfield was insured and has a small deductible.

The plane owned by Peter McKendry of Scarborough, who also owns a restaurant at Sugarloaf/USA in Carrabassett Valley, was not insured, Andrews said. There is about $86,000 in damage done to the plane.

McKendry testified that he had in-flight insurance, but the plane was not insured on the ground.

“It took me years to save to buy the plane,” McKendry told the court. The last eight or nine years he has used the plane commercially for his restaurant.

He now has fallen $75,000 in debt to the restaurant because he no longer has the plane, he said.

The Cessna is valued at between $105,000 and $125,000 and he has an estimate of $86,000 to fix it, plus he had to pay $5,000 to have the plane moved, McKendry said. After it is fixed, it is estimated the plane would be valued at only $80,000, McKendry said.

“I’d really like to get some restitution out of this,” he told the court.

Andrews said he believes Therrien has the capacity to pay $1,000 a month toward the damage, and it wouldn’t be beyond his capacity to pay $30,000 over two years.

Robbins disagreed and said $100 a month was more realistic due to Therrien’s circumstances.

Robbins said the court should take into consideration that the key to the airplane was left in the plane and made it easy for Therrien to start it.

Murphy compromised on a minimum of $600 a month being paid toward restitution, and if Therrien has a problem not being able to meet those payments he will need to return to court.