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.
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