Warbird Information Exchange

I'm in the Army Reserves, and we went out to West Virginia this weekend. On the way back today, we went through Harrisburg, PA. In a town called Middlesex, I spotted a HU-16 Albatross, what appeared intact, on some one's lawn near the highway. Any body know about this? I didn't have enough time to get my camera out and snap a pic.

I remember reading the article in the local (Harrisburg, PA) paper last year about this plane. I believe it was advertised on Ebay and they paid $75000. They picked it up at military base in Sao Paulo Brazil. They put a lot of work into it to get it to the point where they could ferry it to Pennsylvania. They were planning on a full restoration and maintaining it in airworthy condition but I don't know how that has worked out.

That is the info I can vaguely recollect.

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Jeff

FYI-

http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2007 ... ews959.txt

The Albatross is based at Carlisle (PA) Airport and while visible from I-81 it is two exits west of the Middlesex Exit.

Tom-

Cool Story- They got any more down there? Anyone wanna make me a loan?

Robbie

Same song different verse- Lynn Hunt and Jerry Janes did the same thing back in 1995-96 when they bought three from the BAF in Sao Paolo. N97HU (HU-16A) was the one we kept here in Canada (Shot down in Mexico while drug running in 2004), Lynn kept N98HU (HU-16B) and PBY-guy, the one you saw was N99HU which was part of the original deal. Below is a pic from Ray Wolfe's albatross site when it was still down there and a link to the Airport-Data file on the plane. Robbie, if you are interested and don't want to mess about in Brazil, Lynn still has N98HU at Santa Rosa airport and I do believe it is for sale. It is a bit of a fixer-upper but nothing a few Ben Franklins can't fix. The ferry flight from Sao Paolo to KSTS and CZBB was quite an adventure.

XB-JHH, ex-N97HU after her little incident in Mexico:

and a link to the article (sorry, only available in Spanish):
http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/383475.html

N98HU (from Ray Wolfe's Albatross site):


N99HU (from the same site):

From Airport-Data.com:


http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N99HU.html
And finally some interior pics found on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/n99hu/

Hope this helps.

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Does any one have any contact info for the owners? I'd like to talk to them if possible. Thanks for the info, I tried to find it on Google Earth today, but no dice.

Does any one have any contact info for the owners? I'd like to talk to them if possible. Thanks for the info, I tried to find it on Google Earth today, but no dice.