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Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:45 pm
Went by Tradewinds Aviation in San Antonio yesterday to see whats left. One mostly complete C-47 fuselage that they have taken a back hoe to and a couple of tail sections laying on their sides. Waiting for the scrap aluminum truck I guess. Sad.
Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:34 pm
Stop the presses!!!, what happened, last i heard all was normal, where did it all go?? The DC-3 on gear was an original Tree Top Airlines bird, what about the lodestar nose, twin beech etc etc.......?
Simon
Tue Aug 16, 2011 12:19 am
I wonder what it would take to get that...
Ryan
Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:16 am
Sorry Simon, without breaking in it looks like everything is gone except for a few pieces going to the smelters.
Tue Aug 16, 2011 9:45 am
What happened to Tradewinds? I've not yet heard the story...
Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:24 pm
Basler bought them .....got the parts they wanted..............liquidated the rest.
Thu Aug 18, 2011 7:04 pm
Obergrafeter wrote:Basler bought them .....got the parts they wanted..............liquidated the rest.
A*@holes!!
Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:38 pm
Obergrafeter wrote:Basler bought them .....got the parts they wanted..............liquidated the rest.
...and most of the stuff they liquidated went to the scrappers. I heard among other things pallets of serviceable jugs went to feed the beer can industry. I don't get it...
Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:38 pm
Red Tail wrote:Obergrafeter wrote:Basler bought them .....got the parts they wanted..............liquidated the rest.
...and most of the stuff they liquidated went to the scrappers. I heard among other things pallets of serviceable jugs went to feed the beer can industry. I don't get it...
There was a lot of stuff going into the dumpsters. But, most of what I saw going into the dumpsters was pure junk. Unless you need piles of rotted DC6 chairs and litter carrier/hold downs etc. They did squish several DC-3 airframes into the dumpsters, but they looked to have massive corrosion issues as well. The day I was there a lot of stuff had been sold off, so I don't think as much as we might think actually went into the dumpsters. I hauled home a 30ft trailer slammed with neat old parts to make art work out of. I'm fairly certain that the jugs were all sold and didn't go into a dumpster. Of course I wish I could have gotten my hands on more, but you can't save it all. It was so hot out there that you could hardly breath and I seemed to have gotten stung by ever wasp nest out there. I tried to rescue as much as I could. I don't know what became of the Loadstar nose after I left. I sure wanted it in my front yard.
Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:19 pm
It was sad to see it all come to an end just the same. What a neat place that was. It was a bit like stepping back in time to see so many oddities and hard to find parts still sitting on the shelves under the sheds. I really wished that more people could have saved some of these things. There were several parties there the day that I was there that were trying to save as much as they could. I think much of the stuff lives on in others collections now from what I could see.
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