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Wed Aug 18, 2021 3:33 pm
Funny looking B-25....
Phil
Wed Aug 18, 2021 5:58 pm
Wow - prefer to sell to one buyer - that limits the pool of able and capable buyers. Wendover Airfield would love to get the PBY as the patrol groups were an active part of the atomic missions.
Tom P.
Wed Aug 18, 2021 6:04 pm
Wow....did not even know about this collection!
Anyone has background on it willing to share?
Cheers and tks for sharing.
Wed Aug 18, 2021 6:08 pm
wendovertom wrote:Wow - prefer to sell to one buyer - that limits the pool of able and capable buyers. Wendover Airfield would love to get the PBY as the patrol groups were an active part of the atomic missions.
Tom P.
If you keep reading it says they'd like to sell to one group, but they will sell individually. I would bet you could get them to part with the PBY.
Wed Aug 18, 2021 6:40 pm
The ad says they are in Scottsdale...can't say I've seen them there.
Some of the planes; C-119, PBY, HU-16...would be hard to hide.
Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:50 pm
they are all out at the Buckeye Airport. I worked for Hans for several years, I flew most of those in and worked on them,
I wrote the maint program for the TBM, annualed the Stearman, Navion, C-45, prepurchase on the PBY, got the A-26 ferryable, flew the C-119, C1A, DC-3,
Wed Aug 18, 2021 10:53 pm
Matt Gunsch wrote:they are all out at the Buckeye Airport. I worked for Hans for several years, I flew most of those in and worked on them,
I wrote the maint program for the TBM, annualed the Stearman, Navion, C-45, prepurchase on the PBY, got the A-26 ferryable, flew the C-119, C1A, DC-3,
Matt, perhaps he'll cut you a deal on an upgrade.
Thu Aug 19, 2021 8:07 am
Dan K wrote:Matt Gunsch wrote:they are all out at the Buckeye Airport. I worked for Hans for several years, I flew most of those in and worked on them,
I wrote the maint program for the TBM, annualed the Stearman, Navion, C-45, prepurchase on the PBY, got the A-26 ferryable, flew the C-119, C1A, DC-3,
Matt, perhaps he'll cut you a deal on an upgrade.

When I was looking for a Ercoupe, I tried to contact him as he had a nice F1, but he never returned a call. I ended up buying a 415G out of Lyndon, WA
Thu Aug 19, 2021 8:10 am
The are easy to see on google maps, the 119 is on the ramp a further south.
https://goo.gl/maps/CxYmUFop7gBPCTvF833.42597100243145, -112.6823872894835
Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:59 pm
Looking at the list in Trade-A-Plane, are their C-1 and C-119 the sole airworthy examples of their types?
I would imagine the C-119, with two R-3350s would he very expensive to ooerate.
Fri Aug 20, 2021 10:46 pm
JohnB wrote:Looking at the list in Trade-A-Plane, are their C-1 and C-119 the sole airworthy examples of their types?
I would imagine the C-119, with two R-3350s would he very expensive to ooerate.
there are a couple of other C-1A s flying, I heard of one in Alaska being used for cargo. It was a nice flying plane, I flew it from Troy, AL to Glendale and had no problems, tight hydraulic system, wing fold worked.
The 119 had 2 issues, lt oil cooler shutter motor is inop, I wired the shutters open, and there is a squat switch issue, I had to retract the gear using the emergency retract system( yes it has a emergency retract switch).
Sat Aug 21, 2021 12:56 pm
Matt Gunsch wrote:they are all out at the Buckeye Airport. I worked for Hans for several years, I flew most of those in and worked on them,
I wrote the maint program for the TBM, annualed the Stearman, Navion, C-45, prepurchase on the PBY, got the A-26 ferryable, flew the C-119, C1A, DC-3,
And your photo on their website.

- C-1A-by-Matt.jpg (24.19 KiB) Viewed 5566 times
also their C-119 is the “Flight of the Phoenix”(2004) movie plane.
Sat Aug 21, 2021 3:21 pm
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