Harvey Airfield's version of three cars on blocks in the front yard.

gbflyer wrote: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....

That must be the guy on Craigs List in Juneau looking for C-140 parts. I believe he was looking for wing and strut parts I'll sell him the whole plane

that looks like a 170 to me

Not a ramp rat but I have been trying to buy a RANS S7 from a guy for over a year. He bought it already built about 10 years ago and put 144 hours on it. From the stories I was told it got away from him in a crosswind. Bend the landing gear and busted a blade on the prop. Had it fixed and has not flown it since. Granted it is in a hangar covered with dust. It has been sitting now for 7-8 years untouched. He originally wanted $50,000 for it!!!!! He has come down to $38,000!!!!! He thinks since LSA is the hot ticket it is still worth at least what he paid for it. Still has the auto gas in it from when he last flew it. Looks like varnish and smells nasty. Guess it'll sit there and rot away. Its a shame since it is a nice looking plane.
WW

Here's a couple more "mummies".



That one's a 337, but what is this old bird?

That one is an Aero Commander, or according to my ex-boss who claimed to know everything, a twin-engined-mooney.

Go with the Aero Commander.

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My personal mummy collection:

Beech Starship...


...and her five siblings... I'm sure there's a long, interesting story here.


Cessna A 37 Dragonfly. Years ago, after a complete restoration, she was struck by a taxiing airplane a couple of days before her scheduled first flight.


We hosed 5 years worth of sand and pebbles out of the engines, fogged them with Jet-A and one week later she was running on both of them. The Cessna is so low, you have to do the runup on concrete. It will turn asphalt into a puddle of black goo.


No matter how bad they look, you can never give up on these old classics. They have features we have forgotten about. Now I want a nose gun switch and round counter in the Maule.


Of course, there is a tipping point. For some, there is no way back. They become just data plates or monuments.



This is my King Tut of ramp mummies: the first airplane to use the call sign "Air Force One". She (he?) once carried president Eisenhower. Now she's mouldering away in Tucson, waiting for her next assignment.


Twilight of the Gods


I found it was impossible to to imitate the sound of four giant radials using lips alone.


They don't all have to die in ugly places either. This twin Beech has been mowed around for years in Murwillumbah, Australia.. Last year I saw she had been towed out of the way over by the hangars to continue her wait.

Yellowbelly,
I always loved those little A-37's, First time I ever saw one was when I first got stationed at Special Ops base Hurlburt Fld. Florida. I fell in love with them as soon as I saw it. Wish I could afford to have one. As a side note my son got to fly in one a couple of years ago during his ROTC training. It was the T-37 "Tweet" but he said it was a "Friggin Blast!!" ....his words!!!

I beleive the Beech Starships were leased with a specified TT and when that was reach they were taken out of service. I think I have read of one that got through the cracks and the guy is still flying it. Cool looking plane. The Piaggo Avanti looks somewaht similar.
WW

Yellowbelly wrote:Now I want a nose gun switch and round counter in the Maule.

Oh yeah! That should be required equipment. Any traffic please advi..... Ak ak ak ak ak ...

Fisherman wrote:

Yellowbelly wrote:Now I want a nose gun switch and round counter in the Maule.

Oh yeah! That should be required equipment. Any traffic please advi..... Ak ak ak ak ak ...

I like the attitude ERECTION switch

Still 10 years old

WW
I'm sure the T-37 was a blast to fly, but can you imagine the A-37 with TWICE the thrust?? Apparently, without all the ammo and with the aux tanks empty, she was quite a performer. But, they had a nasty drinking problem as you would expect, operating a pure turbojet at low levels in close air support.

Here's a good follow on about the Starships: http://www.ainonline.com/news/single-news-page/article/owner-stumbles-into-starship-support-biz-22388/

Fisherman:

Heh heh, I'd love it. "Local traffic be advised: like it or not - I'm making a straight-in for runway 32"

YB

Another twin Beech rotting away. This one is sitting at Toledo, WA. (TDO) Never seen it move, they just mow around it. Registered to someone in Creswell, OR. Kinda a long ways from home to tie up your plane.

fern hopper,, ,,that beech sitting at Toledo, WA. (TDO) is for sale 1946 Beech D 18 S For Sale on ASO.com
Serial: #A-240 Reg: #N62AB. Price: $ 95000. Name : Company Name : Phone : Your E-Mail ... 1946 Beech D 18 S Reg # N62AB ( All your notes are available each ...
www.aso.com/listings/spec/ViewAd.aspx?id=113849 -

Aluminum Overcast...Greybull, WY...2007



Thin broken layer...Greybull. WY...2007


For Sale...greybull, WY...2007

Here's one that's not on a ramp. It graces the entrance to a brothel on Hwy 95, in Gump's back yard.

Crap! I couldn't get the image to embed. Here's the url:

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2905 ... 1048nHpncC

You can move through several views of the old bird.
tom

Most of the Starships were leased not sold. Most of them now reside at Evergreen Air's maintenance and storage facility near Marana, AZ. I'm sure liability was a consideration. I understand a few did escape.

MTV

mtv wrote:Most of the Starships were leased not sold. Most of them now reside at Evergreen Air's maintenance and storage facility near Marana, AZ. I'm sure liability was a consideration. I understand a few did escape.

MTV

I just saw one Starship some place not too long ago. I'm thinking it was at the Pima Air Museum in Tuscan, AZ.

58Skylane wrote:

mtv wrote:Most of the Starships were leased not sold. Most of them now reside at Evergreen Air's maintenance and storage facility near Marana, AZ. I'm sure liability was a consideration. I understand a few did escape.

MTV

I just saw one Starship some place not too long ago. I'm thinking it was at the Pima Air Museum in Tuscan, AZ.

Last summer there was (probably still is) a Starship outside at the Evergreen Air Museum in McMinnville, OR. Interesting bird.

Flynengr

mtv wrote:Most of the Starships were leased not sold. Most of them now reside at Evergreen Air's maintenance and storage facility near Marana, AZ. I'm sure liability was a consideration. I understand a few did escape.

MTV

Correct Mike. Evergreen's "maintenance" facility is at Pinal airpark, one of the spookiest airports I've been to. You can fly over it and see odd stuff on the field, but you will be turned away by armed guards if you try to drive up to the field to take a look. I once saw a long double row of Starships parked there as I flew over. They are gone now, shredded I believe. The five in my photos are the escapees which are down the road a few miles at the Marana municipal airport.

I just found this on Youtube. This internet thing is really grand sometimes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vSiiE2cyuc&feature=related