114 Sikorsky H-34's up for sale

[SIDSIKO]

Mainly ex US Army CH-34C's, but there are several ex USMC UH-34D's in the lot with Vietnam time. Would make a good restoration project for a museum or collector.
The ad reads

SIKORSKY • AVAILABLE FOR SALE OR FOR PART OUT • 114 (that's not a misprint) Sikorsky H-34 S-58 airframes full of parts. Parts, airframes or entire lot. No Engines, records on most. LOCATED in TUCSON. Lost lease on lot. All must go by February 28, 2011. 678-472-4633. Will assist in loading. Custom Goose neck trailer available for sale that will haul 2 at once behind a heavy pickup. 9 more and more parts in Everett WA. 1 of the 9 in restricted and is close to flying. 1 complete but needs airframe repair. Scrap man offered 1000 each but I hate to see them scrapped • Contact Tim C. Adamson - NASH CREEK COMPANIES INC, Owner - located Mukilteo, WA USA • Telephone: 678-472-4633

[Craig59]

Sid,

You need one of these as office space!

I bet most of them end up with the scrapman for the offered $1000/each. Darn shame.

[hercules130]

Used to buy tires for my Scout from this Gentleman, when I was a broke Airman at DM! 20 bucks would get you a set that would run on the road for 3 months or off for a day or so. Good times.

Gary

[m50a1ontos]

Just getting one to plunk in the back yard and make helicopter noises with the kids would be a hoot! (and save one from the scrappers torch)

[airnutz]

Whoopie! My new Man Cave! The neighbors are gonna love this...

[JBoyle]

I think few years back I bought a CJ-5 tailgate from the guy (or it could have been someone else).
Anyway, he lat lots of H-34s in addition to a few old jeeps and surplus D-M office furniture.

He said he has recently sold a restored static H-34 for $10k.

The contact phone is in Washington...I wonder if they also own the many H-19s that are listed to Washington owners in the FAA database?
They sure aren't in Washington.

Also, I wonder if the Washington-based H-34s are for sale too?
If so, there are plenty of museums here that would like them at a reasonable price?

[SIDSIKO]

Just to clarify the situation. The H-34's are up for sale by Tim Adamson, who has 9 of them in Washington State, (I believe they are at Paine Field) that he trucked all the way from Tucson, AZ. The others are located in a yard owned by Jack's Government Surplus, of Tucson. I believe Tim had plans to get some of these old H-34's back in the air, but obviously this has fallen through and now has to vacate the storage plot in Tucson, which belongs to Jack's.

[tinbender2]

Can someone with scrapping experience verify the $1000 figure?

Around here, scrap aluminum was .35 -.40 a pound a month ago, and that is CLEAN, with no other metals or materials attached. How many hours of labor would it take to cut one up and clean off all the non-aluminum parts?

Just wondering if the owner would take $500, or give discounts on volume. Maybe a museum or two could buy a dozen, for trading later on.

I hope that any museums that get one, take the time to get combat veterans, with bullet holes and shrapnel damage, instead of the nicer ones used as stateside hacks. An actual South Vietnamese Air Force bird would be something I'd wanna see.

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[Fouga23]

The skin is not aluminium, but magnesium.
1000 is nothing. I'd buy one if I would live in the US. Hope many get saved

[JBoyle]

Spread the word to every museum, VFW Post, CAF unit you can think of.

If I could get one of the Washington birds for $1000, I'd buy it and stick it in my back pasture until somebody needs it.

[SIDSIKO]

There are several ex US Army CH-34C's in there, that did see service time with the S.Vietnamese Air Force, before being returned to the US in 1969. Out of the 6 ex USMC UH-34D's at Tucson, BuNo's 143977, 148095, 150250 and 150255 all have Vietnam time on them and probably still have the patches to prove it. Anyone requiring serials of the ex SVAF H-34's, feel free to drop me a line.

To see what can be done with one of these old helicopters, with a lot of dedication and hard work, take a look at

[url]http://www.34restoration.org/RestorationPhotos.htm

Bear in mind, that obtaining one of these helicopters might be the easy part. Trucking them away, might be another matter.

Sid

[BTromblay]

Does any one know if there are any USCG H-34's there? It would be a cool restoration for the 2016 100th anniversary of Coast Guard flight.

[Craig59]

Does any one know if there are any USCG H-34's there? It would be a cool restoration for the 2016 100th anniversary of Coast Guard flight.

Sid would know. PM him direct.

I emailed Ben Kristy, aviation curator at the NMUSMC at Quantico to let him know about the availability of these airframes. Let's hope some of them can be saved!

[SIDSIKO]

No USCG HH-34F's are in the compound. The USCG only recieved 6 machines, 3 went on to serve with Air America in Laos, the other 3 crashed in USCG service during the early 60's. One of them (CG1343) was retrieved, restored and displyed at the now defunct Florida Military Museum. It was last heard of in 2007, dumped in a field of Hwy 17 south of Ft. Meade, FL, along with the A-4, F-4, Mohawk and a Beechcraft. The MAPS Museum at Akron, Ohio got some other stuff, but what happened to the HH-34F? Here is picture of it in happier days in the 1990's.

[tom d. friedman]

i'd say their prices have dropped significantly after this thread!! i can see miles of redundant red tape up ahead.