I bought a Plane for $5,000 - And it almost killed me...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2024
- So I bought this plane for $5k and it just about killed me.
The story on this old bird is it was abandoned at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska. It sat there for years after the company using it to haul fuel and freight around Alaska went out of business.
After years of no one paying the tie-down fees for it, the airport wanted it gone and gave it to the Aviation Museum. The museum in Anchorage was like "oh great, another project, no thanks" and they auctioned it off to raise a bit of money for the Museum. Susan from Everts Air Cargo was in a buying mood and paid $7k for it, with the catch she had to get the thing moved out of there ASAP.
The lovely hot potato airplane then got towed over to the Everts Air Cargo ramp to get it out of where it was rotting away. Unfortunately, ramp space is at quite a premium around airports and a 108ft wide airplane that doesn't fly is not making anyone any $$$. After posting it on Facebook Marketplace with no takers (because the big catch is you have to disassemble it to get it out of there), we ended up with it for $5k and had to get it off the airport ASAP.
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I don’t understand. Jimmy Stewart did it in the desert and flew it out!
Love the comment. That was a C82. haha
Lmao, but only like 40% of the plane
😂😂
Hahahahahahahhaha
I have an idea , u still don’t have an ATC , I know it hard but mount it vertically and make it the best air traffic control tower in Alaska 😉
Wishing you a speedy recovery, man. Looks like you hit your head there pretty good too. Amazing how you don’t turn away from projects this magnitude for your property AND you do it mostly yourself.
Thank you! looking forward to getting back in a plane....haven't gone this long without flying in a while
I was involved in a couple of similar projects years ago- dewinging and moving a Lancaster bomber and a Neptune for our museum, the catch is the wings had to go back on. We did such an awesome job we got volunteered into dismantling a CP-107 Argus, trucking it to the museum and reassembling outside during the snowiest winter we'd had in years... it has a 144ft wingspan.
I was a FE on C-119’s for 8 1/2 years in the 60’s and 70’s. Our Unit the 130th AW was the very last AF Unit to fly the 119’s and took ours to the Boneyard in September 1975. That one you bought is a C-119L. In early 70’s several C-119G’s were converted to “L”s by removing the 4 blade Aeroproducts Props and converting to a more efficient 3 blade Hamilton Standard prop off of C-121 Connie’s that were already in the Boneyard being scrapped. You will discover that the 119 had a Paratainer drop system that put cargo in drop bags on a rail system and had doors in the bottom of the fuselage that open much like Bombay doors on bombers to drop the paratainers out the bottom. Have dropped a lot of paratroopers at Fort Bragg out of 119’s, (out the back troop doors) they loved jumping the 119’s. I have flown all over South America and even to England and Germany in our 119’s back in the day. I first started flying in C-119C’s that had R4360 “corncob” engines, then the G and L’s that had R3350’s like yours. Rugged old bird ! Fully loaded came in at 72,000 pounds. It will make a great “motel” 😊 Sure hope no broken bones from that horrible fall ! 😮
God Bless you Brother! You take on projects that I and most others can only dream about. Good luck and be careful.
Thank you, I will!
That's a nice c-119. Don't see those much anymore
Man, you really gotta take safety more seriously. There were already plenty of close calls and, "i didnt expect that to happen" cuts to imply that there wasnt a whole lot of safety planning put into this teardown
I'd like to see it converted into an RV like Jimmys World did with the Elvis Jet. Dad was career Air Force, and I used to play in a C119 as a kid after it crashed (1962 ish) on the end of the runway, coming in for a landing.
I actually got to talk to its pilot a few years back on an airplane forum. He said as soon as they crossed over the base perimeter fence, the props reversed and dropped them like a stone from about 20 AGL.
My neighbor behind me was a crewman on C119's when he was much younger. He has lots of stories of flying around the world in one for MACS.
I loved that plane!
Awesome video! Love your work good sir! We have one of those Everest Cargo DC6 in our school hangar for maintenance right now. Keep up the great work!
Have you figured out where that plane was built ? I live close to Willow Run , where the B-24's were built , and after WW2 , the same plant built some of the Flying Box cars .
oowwwwwwch. Hope you were relatively OK after that fall. Airplane houses! So very cool, I want one! Unfortunately I don't think they'd let me have one in the city... Thanks for sharing.
Yup, should have flown it out of there.
When are you coming back to Las Cruces? There's an air show on the 19th...
Dude I knew you were gonna be the one to buy it when it popped up on Facebook marketplace!!
You could see that coming, hope you have swift recovery.
Maybe restore it into a taxi or engine startup only kind of deal (if possible) those engines are musical, hate to see it become dormant. but i understand if not worth it.
That is a scary drop, hope you're recovering well.
Much appreciated! The recovery is looking a little longer than I want it to be, but could always be worse
Lol, Everts already has a beautiful but rotting C-119 up in Fairbanks with a jet engine strapped to the roof, and nose art that says "Know Fear". I took some pics of if while on TDY, and that sent me down a rabbit hole on researching C-119s.
I can remember that plane still sitting there when I lived there in 2012 😂
Its been there quite awhile!
It's not the drop, it's the stop. Congratulations on being able to walk without crutches. They should have paid you for removing the plane.
Flying was out of the question, I would have got the dog to pull it
Thought about just a chinook load....but that was spendy too
There are a couple of those sitting on the ramp at Palmer.
I KNOW that plane! I used to see it all the time when I was flying for Atlas!
Been sitting for a long time....fun to get to actually do something with it
Great Buy for 5k 👍
My absolute dream airplane! That or the Grumman albatross. There’s no way of getting her flying again in the future? Probably needs more time and money than the entire GDP of the US, just curious. Thanks!
If he tries to fly it out of there..... he will probably crash and die. The engines are probably trash if they can even start. Its like bungie jumping with a 50 year old rope. Would you do it?
oh god, i can feel this !
Make it a mobile coffee shop.
If only I liked coffee!!! Maybe a cocktail bar :)
Nothing a little ferry permit and several pieces of inop stickers can’t fix….and send it!!😂
lol
Who takes on this kind of project and why is he in Alaska?
Seems he couldbe better employed in the lower 48
All the crazies that like doing this sort of stuff are up here in AK! But yes, certainly more useful down south
Didn't see that coming a mile away.
I'm thinking it'd make a cool toy hauling rv.
It's possible my dad helped build this airplane when he worked at Fairchild. I worked on C-119s when I was an avionics tech with the Air National Guard, so I may have worked on it too.
Send it!
Yea, don't fly anything that costs less than your car.
wait, you mean for 5k it's not airworthy? shocking
Make it into a submarine!!
Build a replica Phoenix.
first time seeing this video. whats gonna be the fate of this bird? please dont destroy it!
Let us know your ideas! I'm leaning towards custom 5th wheel trailer
Moving plane is cheaper and safer.
With such big pieces, you really need to slow down and think through your process. This was waayyyy too sketchy. Love the project but please take your safety much more seriously. Hopefully your injury was a wakeup call.
Wow this is a shit show. Very good. Lots of action! Classic TH-cam
Very interesting!
sorry man, hope it heals well
wanna borrow my hydraulic lift basket safety harness?
That would have been handy! I definitely should have had a harness on... Lesson learned for next time.
You need a super duty.... h.d. might not cut it.
3:51 junk cylinders would make a neat wood stove.
True! great at radiating heat!
Just not trying hard enough. Dennis Quaid could get it flying again in the middle of a desert.
lol
Everts had a C119 use to fly heavy equipment with it, I understand why you didn't fly it they had a restricted flight certificate, if not for the one Everts use to fly didn't have a jet engine on top it would have crashed when lost radial engine on take off it would have crashed the cost just to get it airworthy enough to fly it to your place would have been very crazy I understand totally the reason for not flying it😂. As for what to use it for park your sports car or something in it or a custom shop😅.
The cost of getting it airworthy.
precisely
Самолёты - для полёта (Planes are being to fly).
Pretty dumb thing to with the final wing removal.
Would have loved to dee it redtored to flysble condition 😊
Tailboom make a great wind sock
oooo.... i like that idea! need a big swing bearing
Ouch!!
Air America!
Lotta Kroil 8:55 .
woo hoo
You could have flown it, didn't you see flight of the Phoenix Mr. Towns? 😁
lmao.... didn't they technically only fly like half of that out of there?