DZ09 From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 481 posts, RR: 1 Posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 12386 times:
Saw this plane two days ago in the backyard of some office building in Aruba. It looked like a nice plane in perfect condition except for the chopped off wings.
. Is this how they store planes in Aruba. They did the same thing to the Air Aruba MD80 before they chopped it off completely.
FedExFlyerPHL From United States of America, joined May 2008, 159 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 11604 times:
Is this this close to the airport? I remember last time I was there, there were several a/c in various states of storage/disrepair on the far side of the field.
Jeff
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AvroArrow From Canada, joined Sep 2001, 1040 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 6898 times:
It looks kind of like an old Falcon 20. It would seem unlikely that it would ever fly again given its age and fuel consumption, and the fact that it is in open storage in a humid salty location. But then again you never know. It certainly seems an odd location to find it, but I suppose if they own it and the airport fees were piling up, then better to tow it to your own parking lot I guess.
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Snaiks From Panama, joined Mar 2005, 216 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 4341 times:
Quoting AvroArrow (Reply 3): It would seem unlikely that it would ever fly again given its age and fuel consumption, and the fact that it is in open storage in a humid salty location. But then again you never know. It certainly seems an odd location to find it,
KELPkid From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 5932 posts, RR: 4 Reply 8, posted (4 years 1 month 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 3782 times:
Quoting AvroArrow (Reply 3): It looks kind of like an old Falcon 20. It would seem unlikely that it would ever fly again given its age and fuel consumption, and the fact that it is in open storage in a humid salty location. But then again you never know. It certainly seems an odd location to find it, but I suppose if they own it and the airport fees were piling up, then better to tow it to your own parking lot I guess.
I was personally acquanted with an aircraft that was sunk somewhere in the Carribean after being ditched carrying a load of drugs. It was a C-46 Commando:
The crazy owner of the FBO I worked for in LRU bought her (after she was pulled out of the water), and then sold her to the Chino Air Museum in about 2000, where she is being fully restored
Celebrating the birth of KELPkidJR on August 5, 2009 :-)
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