I bought a Plane for $5,000 - And it almost killed me...
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- Опубликовано: 9 окт 2024
- So I bought this plane for $5k and it just about killed me.
The story on this old bird is it was abandoned at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska. It sat there for years after the company using it to haul fuel and freight around Alaska went out of business.
After years of no one paying the tie-down fees for it, the airport wanted it gone and gave it to the Aviation Museum. The museum in Anchorage was like "oh great, another project, no thanks" and they auctioned it off to raise a bit of money for the Museum. Susan from Everts Air Cargo was in a buying mood and paid $7k for it, with the catch she had to get the thing moved out of there ASAP.
The lovely hot potato airplane then got towed over to the Everts Air Cargo ramp to get it out of where it was rotting away. Unfortunately, ramp space is at quite a premium around airports and a 108ft wide airplane that doesn't fly is not making anyone any $$$. After posting it on Facebook Marketplace with no takers (because the big catch is you have to disassemble it to get it out of there), we ended up with it for $5k and had to get it off the airport ASAP.
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I don’t understand. Jimmy Stewart did it in the desert and flew it out!
Love the comment. That was a C82. haha
Lmao, but only like 40% of the plane
😂😂
Wishing you a speedy recovery, man. Looks like you hit your head there pretty good too. Amazing how you don’t turn away from projects this magnitude for your property AND you do it mostly yourself.
Thank you! looking forward to getting back in a plane....haven't gone this long without flying in a while
Awesome video! Love your work good sir! We have one of those Everest Cargo DC6 in our school hangar for maintenance right now. Keep up the great work!
I was a FE on C-119’s for 8 1/2 years in the 60’s and 70’s. Our Unit the 130th AW was the very last AF Unit to fly the 119’s and took ours to the Boneyard in September 1975. That one you bought is a C-119L. In early 70’s several C-119G’s were converted to “L”s by removing the 4 blade Aeroproducts Props and converting to a more efficient 3 blade Hamilton Standard prop off of C-121 Connie’s that were already in the Boneyard being scrapped. You will discover that the 119 had a Paratainer drop system that put cargo in drop bags on a rail system and had doors in the bottom of the fuselage that open much like Bombay doors on bombers to drop the paratainers out the bottom. Have dropped a lot of paratroopers at Fort Bragg out of 119’s, (out the back troop doors) they loved jumping the 119’s. I have flown all over South America and even to England and Germany in our 119’s back in the day. I first started flying in C-119C’s that had R4360 “corncob” engines, then the G and L’s that had R3350’s like yours. Rugged old bird ! Fully loaded came in at 72,000 pounds. It will make a great “motel” 😊 Sure hope no broken bones from that horrible fall ! 😮
Man, you really gotta take safety more seriously. There were already plenty of close calls and, "i didnt expect that to happen" cuts to imply that there wasnt a whole lot of safety planning put into this teardown
God Bless you Brother! You take on projects that I and most others can only dream about. Good luck and be careful.
Thank you, I will!
You could see that coming, hope you have swift recovery.
There are a couple of those sitting on the ramp at Palmer.
It's not the drop, it's the stop. Congratulations on being able to walk without crutches. They should have paid you for removing the plane.
Lol, Everts already has a beautiful but rotting C-119 up in Fairbanks with a jet engine strapped to the roof, and nose art that says "Know Fear". I took some pics of if while on TDY, and that sent me down a rabbit hole on researching C-119s.
That is a scary drop, hope you're recovering well.
Much appreciated! The recovery is looking a little longer than I want it to be, but could always be worse
Flying was out of the question, I would have got the dog to pull it
Thought about just a chinook load....but that was spendy too
I can remember that plane still sitting there when I lived there in 2012 😂
Its been there quite awhile!
wait, you mean for 5k it's not airworthy? shocking
That's a nice c-119. Don't see those much anymore
My absolute dream airplane! That or the Grumman albatross. There’s no way of getting her flying again in the future? Probably needs more time and money than the entire GDP of the US, just curious. Thanks!
Yea, don't fly anything that costs less than your car.
Didn't see that coming a mile away.
Who takes on this kind of project and why is he in Alaska?
Seems he couldbe better employed in the lower 48
All the crazies that like doing this sort of stuff are up here in AK! But yes, certainly more useful down south
I KNOW that plane! I used to see it all the time when I was flying for Atlas!
Been sitting for a long time....fun to get to actually do something with it
Nothing a little ferry permit and several pieces of inop stickers can’t fix….and send it!!😂
lol
Make it a mobile coffee shop.
If only I liked coffee!!! Maybe a cocktail bar :)
Moving plane is cheaper and safer.
You need a super duty.... h.d. might not cut it.
Very interesting!
Wow this is a shit show. Very good. Lots of action! Classic RUclips
Make it into a submarine!!
With such big pieces, you really need to slow down and think through your process. This was waayyyy too sketchy. Love the project but please take your safety much more seriously. Hopefully your injury was a wakeup call.
Everts had a C119 use to fly heavy equipment with it, I understand why you didn't fly it they had a restricted flight certificate, if not for the one Everts use to fly didn't have a jet engine on top it would have crashed when lost radial engine on take off it would have crashed the cost just to get it airworthy enough to fly it to your place would have been very crazy I understand totally the reason for not flying it😂. As for what to use it for park your sports car or something in it or a custom shop😅.
sorry man, hope it heals well
wanna borrow my hydraulic lift basket safety harness?
That would have been handy! I definitely should have had a harness on... Lesson learned for next time.
3:51 junk cylinders would make a neat wood stove.
True! great at radiating heat!
Would have loved to dee it redtored to flysble condition 😊
Send it!
Pretty dumb thing to with the final wing removal.
Tailboom make a great wind sock
oooo.... i like that idea! need a big swing bearing
You could have flown it, didn't you see flight of the Phoenix Mr. Towns? 😁
lmao.... didn't they technically only fly like half of that out of there?
first time seeing this video. whats gonna be the fate of this bird? please dont destroy it!
Let us know your ideas! I'm leaning towards custom 5th wheel trailer
Just not trying hard enough. Dennis Quaid could get it flying again in the middle of a desert.
lol
The cost of getting it airworthy.
precisely
Ouch!!
woo hoo