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Report: ICE Sold Drug Smugglers Doomed Jet in 2007
A Tampa-based Immigrations and Customs Enforcement undercover operation sold a Gulfstream II turbojet to suspected drug smugglers shortly before it crashed in Mexico.www.officer.com
same guy involved in both ‘operations’
Mike I remember when there were a number of MIGs stored/for sale at Coolidge back in the day.It’s only the Chieftains there in storage. Apart from the small air museum there with the largest plane being a C-119, BXK still only has a 5500 x 75 runway, so it and it’s ramp can’t handle much in the way of anything bigger in storage. So yeah, still pretty sleepy here.
Coolidge’s main ramp and southwest side that used to be an old runway, has been carved out to an aircraft storage area. Some Colombian airline A319s, some Spirit A319s, and some Horizon E175s, are in storage there. I use the north/south RW 35 all the time for my training work, remaining south of 5/23 at all times just to stay away from the plethora of flight school planes from the metro PHX area that have permeated all of central and southern AZ….mesquite, Sioux, Oxford, Varney, Aviator, CareerTrack, and a few others that do little more than annoy me.
But that's no reason to avoid it
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The Lock and Key refurbished Navajos look really nice but at a starting price of just under a million and this one was appraised at 1.75 it is just a lot to bite off on.
Lock & Key Navajo: Refined Workhorse - Aviation Consumer
If you had that kind of money to invest in a used twin-engine airplane—perhaps for a company aircraft making regional trips with staff and their stuff
I’ll add that I got curious and went in the Flying magazine google archive and found the pirep on the Chieftain from May 1973 and as equipped it was 196k and run through the CPI calculator that is 1.3 million today so there’s that.
And the modern avionics in the Lock and Key are straight out of the Jetsons compared to what it came with from the factory.
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These are pretty good too Geroniimo Apache Pilot Report
I don’t doubt it, the sun is really starting to set on all this stuff. I should be glad I got to have a little part of it when I was young.
The Lock and Key refurbished Navajos look really nice but at a starting price of just under a million and this one was appraised at 1.75 it is just a lot to bite off on.
Lock & Key Navajo: Refined Workhorse - Aviation Consumer
If you had that kind of money to invest in a used twin-engine airplane—perhaps for a company aircraft making regional trips with staff and their stuff
I’ll add that I got curious and went in the Flying magazine google archive and found the pirep on the Chieftain from May 1973 and as equipped it was 196k and run through the CPI calculator that is 1.3 million today so there’s that.
And the modern avionics in the Lock and Key are straight out of the Jetsons compared to what it came with from the factory.
Flying Magazine
books.google.com
I’m not sure, 6 ish years ago i looked at cowl flap transmissions and found one shop that would overhaul them and was quite obviously a one-man operation out of a hangar somewhere in rural Michigan. We had a flap track that had a funny wear pattern and kept wearing out rollers, good luck, Piper won’t even make one for you.
I've got time in most of those birds. Popped an engine in 27426 at TCC on my very last leg of my last day at AMF in 2016.
