TTO - liquidation sale - Everything must go!

[Frater I*I]

It should [too] also be mentioned that aircraft in storage require certain maintenance checks at 7, 15, 30, and 45 day intervals to maintain an airworthiness cert, and A&P mech don't work pro bono. If that another bill he's deciding to skirt, welp there's always the re-cert process he can go through with the FAA to get it to ferry flight status...

[woodworker]

And then he has to find a flight crew and pay them up front.

[northland10]

On a slightly related note, I was looking at the Google Maps satellite view of Channault Airport in Lake Charles, which I assume is what he is referring to. You can tell when that satellite shot was taken. The airport and much of Lake Charles are a mess. It must not have been too long after Laura last year. It looks like Laura relocated a DC-9 unless they are in the habit of parking the plane half on the tarmac, half on the lawn, and the tail on top of the low section of a hanger.

[Frater I*I]

On a slightly related note, I was looking at the Google Maps satellite view of Channault Airport in Lake Charles, which I assume is what he is referring to. You can tell when that satellite shot was taken. The airport and much of Lake Charles are a mess. It must not have been too long after Laura last year. It looks like Laura relocated a DC-9 unless they are in the habit of parking the plane half on the tarmac, half on the lawn, and the tail on top of the low section of a hanger.

That's a derelict trainer used by the tech school there for the Airframe & Powerplant program....

[northland10]

On a slightly related note, I was looking at the Google Maps satellite view of Channault Airport in Lake Charles, which I assume is what he is referring to. You can tell when that satellite shot was taken. The airport and much of Lake Charles are a mess. It must not have been too long after Laura last year. It looks like Laura relocated a DC-9 unless they are in the habit of parking the plane half on the tarmac, half on the lawn, and the tail on top of the low section of a hanger.

That's a derelict trainer used by the tech school there for the Airframe & Powerplant program....

Take it back.. I guess it's a 727. Sometimes hard to tell from above since you don't know if the top engine is just a funny shot of a reflection or odd image joining of a regular tail or the actual engine. I assume it is still the same derelict trainer.

ETA.. I assume this is the one you are referring to as the trainer (and yes, my sloppiness said DC-9 when it really is a 727.
https://chennault.org/2017/10/10/sowela-plane-revealed/

And how the hurricane reparked it and damaged it.

[chancery]

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It seems a little strange to me that an engine can be rated as safe for exactly one cycle, but not more. Can anyone elaborate?

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It wouldn't be, he needs one to rent for the ferry flight to the repair station for the airframe overhaul, or send that one out, wait for it to be overhauled, sent back, installed, and ops checked, then send the aircraft for depot work.

Ah, so it's a one-cycle rental, not a one-cycle safety certificate?

[Frater I*I]

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Ah, so it's a one-cycle rental, not a one-cycle safety certificate?

Correct, the FAA won't grant a ferry flight permit for a twin engine aircraft that has one "out of time" as we refer to it.

[Frater I*I]

Take it back.. I guess it's a 727. Sometimes hard to tell from above since you don't know if the top engine is just a funny shot of a reflection or odd image joining of a regular tail or the actual engine. I assume it is still the same derelict trainer.

ETA.. I assume this is the one you are referring to as the trainer (and yes, my sloppiness said DC-9 when it really is a 727.
https://chennault.org/2017/10/10/sowela-plane-revealed/

And how the hurricane reparked it and damaged it.

I was just mentioning about the A/C parking situation

Yeah, it messed up, but hell, you should see every A&P school trainer A/C

Hell I'm jealous of those kids, they got a working tri-jet trainer aircraft they get to fire up

[Full disclosure, I'm old enough to be every person's in my class parent....]

[gshevlin2]

That 757 is reaching the stage where it would be more cost-effective to part it out on the spot. It is very old, with one missing engine, and has not flown for several years. I think it might cost $1m just to get it to the point where it can make a one-time ferry flight to...a boneyard.
I think that the Scottish Trump properties are money pits. Unless Trump still launders cash through them, they would be among the first on the block.
I am intrigued by the supposed property in St. Martin. We are going there in September on vacation. I may have to take my most powerful set of binoculars...

[Chilidog]

That 757 is reaching the stage where it would be more cost-effective to part it out on the spot. It is very old, with one missing engine, and has not flown for several years. I think it might cost $1m just to get it to the point where it can make a one-time ferry flight to...a boneyard.
I think that the Scottish Trump properties are money pits. Unless Trump still launders cash through them, they would be among the first on the block.
I am intrigued by the supposed property in St. Martin. We are going there in September on vacation. I may have to take my most powerful set of binoculars...

I think they are renting it out as an airbnb

[Frater I*I]

That 757 is reaching the stage where it would be more cost-effective to part it out on the spot. It is very old, with one missing engine, and has not flown for several years. I think it might cost $1m just to get it to the point where it can make a one-time ferry flight to...a boneyard.

Freight haulers will buy it, the first two "cookie sheets" [as we call them in the industry, 8"X8" pallets with cargo piled 4" high] pays for flight crew and fuel. Plus, too, also, freight haulers are under a much less stringent maintenance requirements than a passenger airline [simply put: 2 people die when a cargo aircraft falls out of the air, 200 die when a passenger aircraft falls out of the sky. This is how the FAA looks at it.]