We had a couple Super Connies here in Maine for a number of years. They were at Auburn until a bankrupcy auction, when Lufthansa bought both, rebuilt one. I think one of them was a former Lufthansa ship. I have lost track of them now, they are undergoing resto somewhere



JIm

Scouter wrote:We had a couple Super Connies here in Maine for a number of years. They were at Auburn until a bankrupcy auction, when Lufthansa bought both, rebuilt one. I think one of them was a former Lufthansa ship. I have lost track of them now, they are undergoing resto somewhere



JIm

Neat picture! I think those Connies are one of the most graceful airliners ever built.

There's a couple of "ramp rats" over at North las Vegas airport. Most interesting is a swift that hasn't seen flight since the early 70's. Theirs a Maule with the windshield out ,a 182 with crazed over windows . In southern cal (Whiteman-WHP) there's a old broke D-18 minus the cowls -a Stinson Gull wing fuselage minus wings. Gull wing is for sale(wings and tail inside and covered) -talked to semi movie person about it -20K . At WJF there's a beech travelair with damage to tail but looks ok other than that.

I actually almost landed nose gear up in a Connie a few years back. Glad we got the gear down, I'd never have lived that one down as I think it was one of only two flying at the time. Heard there is a 3rd now.

I know that plane. I've tied down alongside it more than once. Always liked something about that airport, too, although the cable tie-downs raised up one windy night and it was a long vigilant night to prevent them form chafing through my brake lines.

-Denalipilot

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.

Scouter wrote:We had a couple Super Connies here in Maine for a number of years. They were at Auburn until a bankrupcy auction, when Lufthansa bought both, rebuilt one. I think one of them was a former Lufthansa ship. I have lost track of them now, they are undergoing resto somewhere



JIm

Lufthansa built the new big hangar at lewiston and there re building one of the connies there and i was told they are going to be actually using it for scheduled airline runs over seas

Been there for a couple years now, spent about a year in another spot until a tornado relocated her across the airport. We towed it back and parked her where she sits now.

That Antonov is the one at Merrill - you can see the top of the BP building in the background. They fixed that flat and swapped the green bucket on the tarmac out for a white one last year. Still never seen it move.

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Armstrong Whitworth AW-660 Argosy T2 at Lancaster, CA 2009

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Parked at Lovelock, NV


Parked at Perris Valley, CA

There was an old Taylorcraft based on a local farm strip, and the owner's IA finally refused to sign it off anymore unless he did some necesary fabric & airframe repairs. I was driving by the farm one day lamenting to myself "that poor old T-Craft will never fly again" when it revved up, turned into the wind, & took off! Fabric was flapping away on the belly but it looked like it flew all right. The owner finally moved it into the barn "for future restoration" and bought another old T-Craft to replace it. He built an open-faced hangar to keep this one in so maybe the fabric'll hold up better.

Freight dogs at Rickenbacker, Columbus, Ohio.


a true "basket case" on a hill top in Ohio.

... and in a field south of Columbus, OH.

Stumbled into to these in NW Wyoming back in '05. I under stand that they have mostly been sold off at an auction since then.

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:

This beauty is a 5o to 70's heritage design by, Russian;Designed by Antonov Yukovlev, I think he is still designing larger and larger planes.
Huge radial motor about 450 hp and 40 gallon per hour econo cruise.

I think it was for sale for a while, if not presently. Suffers from a restricted category airworthiness certificate.

jlewis22 wrote: ....This beauty is a 5o to 70's heritage design by, Russian;Designed by Antonov Yukovlev, I think he is still designing larger and larger planes.
Huge radial motor about 450 hp and 40 gallon per hour econo cruise.

Antonov AN-12 has a 1,000 hp engine- a russian/polish knock-off of a Wright 1820.

patrol guy wrote:... and in a field south of Columbus, OH......

What's the blue Navy airplane? Looks kinda like a twin-engine version of a P3 Orion.

It's a P2V-5 Neptune

patrol guy wrote:... and in a field south of Columbus, OH.

That would be Greybull, WY. Home of Hawkins and Powers Aviation
http://www.tripadvisor.in/LocationPhoto ... oming.html
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/14707

Took this pic with my cell phone in JNU today as I was taxing out. Been around the airport there for years, I understand it belonged to a fellow who passed on and his father won't let it go. Winter was a little hard on it....