Kenya derelict plane auction

[Beefy McGee]

Kenya set to auction off 73 derelict aircraft

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$15k for the L-1011, $95k for a Cessna 206, $621 for a CRJ100.

 

[Ayork62493]

Someone needs to tell sky west about the CRJ.

 

[DeltaAlphaNovember]

I'm all over that CRJ 200. I'll use it to commute to work.

 

[NovemberEcho]

$656 for an AN-24? Sold! I’ll take the DC-3 too

 

[bimmerphile]

Are they paying me $621 to take the CRJ?

 

[Pilot Fighter]

I'm all over that CRJ 200. I'll use it to commute to work.

Hiring mins?

 

[stroboli62]

Even one of CAPs Facebook sites is all agaga over a 5K 707 from Kenya, also......dream in of takin cadets and ground teams places

The Good Idea Fairies are ridin high everywhere..............

 

[charlie1017]

Hiring mins?

The airline name will be DERELICTE!

 

[CFI A&P]

I'm all over that CRJ 200. I'll use it to commute to work.

Does it come with a huffer cart? That APU is going to be deferred.

 

[ILS37R]

Wonder what condition the $570 Dash 7 is in...

 

[Oxman]

Here are some of the actual planes in Nairobi Jomo. I took these photos while walking around them. All of the tires were flat. There were birds living in the planes with no cargo door or windows. A lot had no engines. I couldn't get up there to see what the cockpit looked like but, you can only guess.

These are the good ones.

 

[Roger Roger]

Gonna start a rumor that this is a child slave front like wayfair

 

[Minuteman]

Them CRJ-100ERs are former Comair: N912CA, N933CA, N934CA

Two DC-9-10s were with Midwest: N25AS/N600ME, N85AS/N500ME


Also this writeup. If you've watched The Wire, you know:

Transafrik Hercules S9-BAS, flying for the United Nations World Food Programme, contacted Lokichoggio Tower at 14:30 hours. The aircraft was returning from a food air drop at Motot, Southern Sudan. The pilot was advised to divert to Eldoret International Airport but he opted to land at Lokichoggio. The Tower cleared the Hercules to land on runway 27 at the pilot’s discretion. The aircraft made a very heavy landing short of the runway and the top centre fuselage broke. The aircraft came to a stop about one kilometre from the touchdown point. Shortly before coming to a halt, the aircraft impacted the HS 748 with its right wing tip. The captain, the first officer, the flight engineer and the two loadmasters evacuated themselves safely.

A repair crew started to work on S9-BAS on site at Lokichoggio in May 2006. The fuselage was repaired but the contractor left before repairs were completed. The airplane was seen in November 2008 parked at Lokichoggio without landing gear, engines and vertical stabilizer.

 

[Doug Masters]

The airline name will be DERELICTE!View attachment 61661

 

[Pilotcollin]

Are any of these planes actually salvageable? I mean take them apart, put in a box, ship to the states, new engines paint and interior. Or are they beyond that point? I’m talking about the small piston/king air.

 

[ahw01]

$45 for an HS-748. Schwing!

 

[Pilot Fighter]

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No, they are not economically salvageable. As no efforts were made to preserve them, they aren't even good parts planes.

For many commercial aircraft, you can buy an airworthy plane with mid-time engines cheaper than the cost of overhauling engines.

Let's say I gave you an airworthy King Air 200 that just needed engines overhauled. That's $600k. If the engines can't be overhauled you are looking at spending a million on engines. You can get a mid-time 200 for that price. These Kenyan aircraft would have a problem with every major system.

You see many airlines parking planes when they are due for a D-Check because it can be cheaper to buy a plane with remaining hours/cycles.

 

[CFI A&P]

Are any of these planes actually salvageable? I mean take them apart, put in a box, ship to the states, new engines paint and interior. Or are they beyond that point? I’m talking about the small piston/king air.

Unless the owner/ operator plans for them to be inactive and prepared for storage - you'll find every form of corrosion present. Corrosion never sleeps. The exfoliation corrosion will be so bad on these that the aluminum won't even be suitable for use as beer cans.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Transair be like, does that -200 come with the float package?

 

[JustinS]

Those prices are a steal. Could cut em up and sell them to aviation enthusiasts as collectibles.