I recognized one of the Cheyenne II’s my first employer in aviation owned. N66847 was a great bird; incredibly reliable. She was sold for parts because a new pilot’s windshield couldn’t be purchased through Piper( at that time) and its engines(-28s) were nearly timed out.
I recognized one of the Cheyenne IIs the first company I worked for in aviation owned...N66847. She was sold for parts because she needed a pilot’s windshield ( unavailable through Piper at the time) and both engines(-28s) were coming up on overhaul. She was ten times the aircraft than the one was they bought to replace her (N803SW). We said the “SW” stood for solid waste. It was a horrible aircraft that was only worth her parts.
Seeing all these aircraft sitting there rotting saddens me, but the black and red Apache behind the King Airs at 0:56 made my heart sink deeper than ever.
These aircraft sitting there are doing a lot of good. There are a lot of really old aircraft still in use today safely because of salvage yards like this. One aircraft can help many.
I was a passenger in a Piper Cherokee 140 that crashed in June of 2000 on departure from 1MU4 (private grass strip south of Warrensburg, MO) that is resting in pieces at Whites.
There's some massive airline and government facilities in the southwest. Most of the boneyards tend to be in the Arizona/New Mexico/Nevada region as the desert climate is more conducive to preservation than wetter parts of the country. General aviation and bizjet facilities like this one tend to be smaller and more scattered around the nation. There are still tons of small GA planes that were built in the 60s that are still flown regularly. A lot of times you can still get parts from the manufacturers, or at least find new-old stock, but the prices are often ridiculous. Salvage can be cheaper by a factor of 10 or more.
@@delten-eleven1910 The Cessna boneyard is the sky. Seriously though, the small single-engine piston Cessnas are cheap to keep flying and there's always some flight school out there that could use another one.
Find an old airfield in your region. Go and look around, meet the people who work there or have a plane there. I learned to fly at Hogan Field in Hamilton Ohio. Always interesting to see the DC-3, Twin Beech, WACO biplanes, Luscombes, Cubs. Swap rides. Lots of backstory at an old airport. Go and hang.
Looking at these birds, I can just hear it now: " Ummm... Yeah, we need a Pitot-Static Cert done on this and all the radios fixed and a WiFi installed and we need it done by 5 since we have a charter flight scheduled to go to Vegas tonight and we're COD and we seem to have lost our credit card, but call our DOM and he'll have it ready for you even though he's fled the country and is somewhere in the Bahamas right about now. Thanks!" Welcome to Aviation 2021.
You could make the video so more interesting by adding history, age how he got the plane what kind of material he sold and do on , no i think you left the good part on the shelf.
@@TrinityGrainMan I think he meant to imply that the industry is like a leash around your neck. That boneyard is FULL of broken dreams and heart breaking disappointments, not just because of the state of the airplanes, but because of the wasted effort and money they absorbed. The people who work in aviation as technicians are under paid, overworked and bare HUGE responsibility. Aviation is NOT as great as people think it is. Unfortunately.
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HOW DO YOU MOW THE GRASS AROUND ALL THOSE PLANES? ............................................................................................................................................
Unless you’re involved in aviation, specifically maintenance, it’s difficult to understand the value of used parts as most of these airframe designs are no longer in production
