B-52 Systems Trainer for sale in Denver...

Warbirdnerd · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:34 pm **Posts:** 2923

Your neighbors will love you:

Details here:
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/fo ... 28953.html

DH82EH · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 4:49 pm

Someone needs to channel their inner "Walter Soplata" :wink:

Andy Scott

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2015 8:32 pm

Got an ID: B-52F 57-048. From Baugher:

Joe Baugher wrote:

048 to MASDC as BC225 8/31/78. Later to Lowry AFB as GB-52F ground training machine. Cut up
in March 1994 at Lowry AFB just before the base closed. Nose section was to go into their museum. Nose section seen at J. W. Duff Aircraft Salvage, Denver, CO in 2005.

Might be the biggest piece of B-52 in civilian hands?

Chappie · **Joined:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:40 am **Posts:** 987

I was in the second to last Weapons Specialist F-16 class to go through Lowry, we graduated on March 4, 1994. I remember a complete B-52 fuselage with no wings or vertical tail that the BUFF guys used to train on. Wonder if this is all that is left?

Chappie

florida.warbirds · **Joined:** Fri Aug 22, 2014 8:25 am **Posts:** 158

If I had a man cave and the money, this would so be part of it.

p51 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2015 8:24 pm

Something like that is deceptively big, most of us would know that, but I wouldn't doubt someone with what my Mom calls, "More money than sense" might show up looking to buy it just because its cool, only to realize it's much bigger than any RV.
Unlike the fighter cockpits that are popular on the UK air show circuit to be trailered to special events, you sure couldn't trailer this anywhere easily. But imagine restoring this and just being able to sit there inside it. I could spend hours, just sitting there, I'd think...

florida.warbirds wrote:

If I had a man cave and the money, this would so be part of it.

Yep, would be great to mount it onto the back of the house, and you walk down a hall to an otherwise normal seeming door, open it up and BAM, you're on the set of 'Doctor Strangelove.' :shock:

I knew someone who did the same thing with the cab of a streamlined diesel locomotive, you opened the door and and suddenly your concept of reality got tipped on its ear.

maxum96 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:56 pm

I don't think it's too tall or wide to be trailered down the road without a wide load permit. But I do think the $32,000 asking price is way too high. Or am I wrong about that?

Spectre_I · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2015 2:30 pm

maxum96 wrote:

I don't think it's too tall or wide to be trailered down the road without a wide load permit. But I do think the $32,000 asking price is way too high. Or am I wrong about that?

Seems a tad unreasonable to me as well, especially with the restoration it's going to need to get it up to snuff. Hopefully when he realizes he can't sell it, he'll donate it to a museum and take the write off.

p51 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:01 pm

I have no idea if it's unreasonable or not.
how many BUFF noses are in private hands anyway?

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