Wanna buy a slightly used plane?

[Sally4th]

Will it sell for scrap or will some one make a shrine out of it?

Story here.

 

[CLTUSCaptive]

I hope someone buys it and moves it to Charlotte. It would make a great bar!

 

[rat tales]

DoUgIe was in CLT for the opening of the new runway. DoUgIe, along with other dignitaries rode along in the PIEDMONT Airlines DC3 to make the first take off and first landing. The DC3 is kept at the Charlotte Air Museum there at the Airport. I along with my son were at the Museum and were informed that DoUgIe made the statement that he wanted to put 106US (I think that is the tail #) in the museum there in CLT.
Its a sad day when he has decided to get whatever he can for scrap for what I would call a historically significant aircraft that has brought so much positive publicity to a company that could have possibly folded had the outcome taken a negative turn.
I would think he could donate it and have more of a tax write-off than he could make on scrap.

 

[Dog Wonder]

The insurance company may own the plane.

 

[BoeingBoy]

They do, and it's being sold "As is, where is."

Jim

 

[SparrowHawk]

They do, and it's being sold "As is, where is."

Jim

Well perhaps Doug should let the moths out of his wallet and pony up the dough and buy the plane.

Or even more fitting is the employees should raise funds to buy it put it in the museum and tell Tempe execs they can pay admission like everyone else

 

[nycbusdriver]

About a week after the splashdown, I emailed the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum and suggested that they ask AIG to donate the airplane to the museum for use as an air safety display. Never heard a word.

I thought having it right there a few hundred feet from where it actually splashed down and the rescue happened would be a tremendous draw, and a great opportunity for some "safety mfwic" (are you reading this Sulley) to design an airline safety display.

But, it looks like the almighty buck will win over and this miraculous piece of aviation history will soon be beer cans.

If someone who might be reading this has any connections to $$$$ who may see this my way, please suggest this to them. They can take the credit for the idea; just save this piece of history.

(I can't believe those tightwad AIG b****rds don't just donate it to this museum, or any museum. I guess the taxpayer-bailed-out corporation needs the auction money to pay bonuses.)

 

[JayBrian]

My guess is that the sale price will be low. The big expense of making this aircraft a museum piece would be the transportation to it's final location and cost of the restoration to make it display worthy.

 

[757fixer]

Here is a link to the pictures.

http://www.aigaviation.com/aviationsalvage...px?faano=N106US

 

[Pi brat]

If the company was making money then I would support buying the A/C and putting it on display, but not now.

 

[Sally4th]

Whoever buys it gets the storage bill along with it - 1 year plus, thats not going to be pretty.

 

[necigrad]

I've gotta agree that it's not cool buying it back when we're losing money, especially with furloughs.

 

[ggiby]

The insurance company may own the plane.

U S air owns no planes..
dont think any airline owns their planes...???

 

[nycbusdriver]

U S air owns no planes..
dont think any airline owns their planes...???

If I had to bet, I would wager that SWA owns most, in not all, of their fleet.

 

[Harry Callahan]

About a week after the splashdown, I emailed the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum and suggested that they ask AIG to donate the airplane to the museum for use as an air safety display. Never heard a word.

I thought having it right there a few hundred feet from where it actually splashed down and the rescue happened would be a tremendous draw, and a great opportunity for some "safety mfwic" (are you reading this Sulley) to design an airline safety display.

But, it looks like the almighty buck will win over and this miraculous piece of aviation history will soon be beer cans.

If someone who might be reading this has any connections to $$$$ who may see this my way, please suggest this to them. They can take the credit for the idea; just save this piece of history.

(I can't believe those tightwad AIG b****rds don't just donate it to this museum, or any museum. I guess the taxpayer-bailed-out corporation needs the auction money to pay bonuses.)

Sorry I don't have any connections but I agree with you 1000%. This piece of history needs to be saved.