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The Travis AFB Heritage Center T-39 Sabreliner serial number 03483 located in Fairfield CA.
has been declared excess and will be scrapped if it is not transferred to another approved/vetted USAF museum. Parts are also available from the aircraft for other approved/vetted museums.

contact Rick Shea at the Travis AFB Heritage Center 707-424-5883
or if you want the whole aircraft contact USAF Museum, mark.miller@us.af.mil

More info and pictures also available from me, but I can't approve anything.
Sadly, the USAF is downsizing their aircraft collections on display. This is happening at many USAF Museums and Heritage Centers. Can't save them all, but maybe save some pieces from them.

Sad day...

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Just part of the team keeping them going
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HARS, Albion Park, AUSTRALIA

On all of these planes, does "declared excess and will be scrapped" mean "sold intact through the GSA or whoever to the highest bidder" (like the C-119 and C-123 recently), or "we will chop it into little pieces where it sits and the pile sold as scrap"?

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

If no qualified museum comes forward then
The excess aircraft will be offered for sale at GSA surplus sales just like the recent C-119 and C-123 at Edwards. Before they are offered, they will be certified for
safety- no ejection seats, pressurized bottles etc and armament - no weapons, ordnance.

They will not be cut up before sale. Although some parts may be removed if they can be used on other museum aircraft. I believe the buyer has a limited time to remove aircraft from site. Usually they are worth more scrap metal value then the cost to move them. I hope someone gets them that will give them a good new home.