You know the kind. They last flew in 1981 but the owner keeps paying the tiedown fee while they slowly return their elements to the earth. I found this one on the Hangar Bravo Three page:



Sort of the opposite of "Show us your plane," as it's rather depressing.

There's a Pacer sitting here in McGrath too that either needs to be fixed or buried...not as badly though as this poor thing. It's a Cessna Bobcat "Bamboo Bomber". Ironically it's owned by my previous employer's Director of Maintenance...it flew when he first owned it, and then his ex girlfriend took an axe to it shortly after achieving "Ex" status somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 years ago...

cessna 170A I've been looking at every time I fly to the Yukon, even tracked down the owner, but he's not interisted in selling. Even though the tires are rotted rite off it.

ccurrie wrote:
cessna 170A I've been looking at every time I fly to the Yukon, even tracked down the owner, but he's not interisted in selling. Even though the tires are rotted rite off it.

There's a 65 HP Piper J-3 in a nearby village, it's been sitting for many years. However, the man who owns it keeps it in great shape, but it's long out of annual. He bought it for his son, who wanted to be a pilot, but subsequently took his own life. Tragic story. He doesn't fly and won't sell it, he continues to sweep the snow off it, and make sure it's tied down tight. It had a flat tire a few years go, that lasted about a week and then it had a shiney new one on.

Saw lots in AK when I lived up there. I'll have to fly over to Comanche and get a pic of the rotting one there. It's one of those Piper metal low wing things.

Now this is one I can put my plane in.

tim

born2flyak wrote:There's a Pacer sitting here in McGrath too that either needs to be fixed or buried...not as badly though as this poor thing. It's a Cessna Bobcat "Bamboo Bomber". Ironically it's owned by my previous employer's Director of Maintenance...it flew when he first owned it, and then his ex girlfriend took an axe to it shortly after achieving "Ex" status somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 years ago...

Gump must have a tory for this thread

Tim

FloatFlyer wrote:

Wow...what a Roach!! Bury that thing!

FloatFlyer wrote:

hahahahaha. The engine is gonna rot off that thing before it ever wears out

There was a M-4 sitting on the ramp in IDA for several years, tires were rotted and the flaps were all screwed up. Tried to buy it a couple times but the guys wouldn't sell. few months after I asked him for the last time he sold it every now and then I see it flyin

Et tu, FloatFlyer???

Haha. Tell me about it! The way it's stored though it's got about a 10,000 year half life.

Found this:

Don't count those ramp queens out -- a friend of mine bought a Grumman Yankee which had sat on the ramp at Bremerton WA for about 12 years. Trailered it home, repainted it, re-did the interior, soaked the cylinders in Mystery Oil, and got her flying again. Flew it stock for a while, then did the DMA tailwheel conversion, and finally about a year ago did the 320 conversion (with an engine that had sat unused for several years). No problems, flies great, & really performs- sort of a poor man's RV6.
This wasn't the first ramp/hangar queen he's resurrected either. He's been pretty lucky by not having engine-corrosion issues with any of them- so far anyway.

Eric

Yeah....this is sad.I can't tell ya how many planes I have seen get parked and rot. Like was said previous,alot of folks have delusions of " I'll fly it again " and then it's too late. What a shame. Right now I know of a C152,V35 and a 201 just sitting going to waste.

On a more positive note,I did have one guy agree to let me fly his Cher.180 for 4 years just so it did not go that route. Unfortunately he had no people skills and I turned in the keys. Prior to that I managed a brand new M7-235 Maule for a friend and loved it ! Too bad he sold it .......

Back in about '93 found a Luscomb sitting on the ramp at a small easten Oklahoma airstrip. Tires were flat but the airframe looked pretty clean and with a little TLC looked like it might be a good flyer. Did some inquiring about the airport and the small town but no one seemed to know much about it. My brother did a tail number research and found it had been stolen out of New York state. Don't know what happened after that, but the plane disappeared.

I've had my eye on a Cherokee 180c that's been sitting on our ramp for a while now. It's all there, just been sitting too long. Fella doesn't want to sell it for less than he has in it (uh, yeah... so it'll sit there forever).

1SeventyZ wrote:Et tu, FloatFlyer???

Haha. Tell me about it! The way it's stored though it's got about a 10,000 year half life.

Found this:

Isn't this plane sitting at Merrell field in Anchorage??? If not, there is 1 there almost like it.

I saved my 140 from a horrible death. It was sitting at Warren Johnson airstrip in Kenai for years. Tires were rotten Aluminum all oxidized.
Cleaned her up with 80 Ben Franklins and she's flying good as ever

Here is a 1976 T-Craft I tried to buy.....wanted 18K for it. Had a prop strike and the fabric looks like what moths do to a wool blanket

We have a lake cabin in Minnesota, and at the small strip at the city airport(8 hangers total), there sits a couple of odd homebuilts, a hang glider, a C-150, a cherokee 160, a 7AC champ, and a cherokee 180 with less than a 1000 hours on it. None of them have left the ground in the ten years we have had the cabin.

Sad to see, but none are for sale.

chickenair wrote:

1SeventyZ wrote:Et tu, FloatFlyer???

Haha. Tell me about it! The way it's stored though it's got about a 10,000 year half life.

Found this:

Isn't this plane sitting at Merrell field in Anchorage??? If not, there is 1 there almost like it.

I'd bet money that's the one at Merrill, the background seems to match.