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Auction provides public chance to bid on vintage airplane

The auction for the 1974 Bellanca Super Viking airplane is open to the public and ends on Friday, October 4th.
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The auction for the 1974 Bellanca Super Viking 1BL7-31ATC airplane is open to the public at municibid.com and ends on Friday, October 4th. Pennsylvania residents are able to bid in this government auction online, 24/7.

Officials say money generated from the sale will benefit the local community
 
No records, eh? Parts plane.

Funny thing - I still have a receipt from a C-150 I rented at that airport back in the early 1970's. $12/HR, wet.
 
Beachy said:
No records, eh? Parts plane.

Funny thing - I still have a receipt from a C-150 I rented at that airport back in the early 1970's. $12/HR, wet.
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Even if the documentation were flawless, would you want to fly a Viking that's been setting on the ramp for years?
 
Bid $2,500

If the bid wins (and it probably would), find a suitable nearby open field, make a deal with the landowner, and move the plane there. Strip the plane of any and all salvageable parts or key components.

Next, set up a “community event” party at the field to raise funds for, well, just about anything with emotional content that will get people to show up. Hire a couple of bands, set up beer sales and sell tickets. The ticket price includes a raffle.

The main event of the party is right at subset when you douse the plane in kerosene (it’s a wooden plane, after all). The raffle grand prize winner gets to remotely ignite the bonfire.

Even if you don’t make a bunch of money on the deal, you’ll get a great story out of it, and the plane will have been disposed of.
 
StraightnLevel said:
Bid $2,500

If the bid wins (and it probably would), find a suitable nearby open field, make a deal with the landowner, and move the plane there. Strip the plane of any and all salvageable parts or key components.

Next, set up a “community event” party at the field to raise funds for, well, just about anything with emotional content that will get people to show up. Hire a couple of bands, set up beer sales and sell tickets. The ticket price includes a raffle.

The main event of the party is right at subset when you douse the plane in kerosene (it’s a wooden plane, after all). The raffle grand prize winner gets to remotely ignite the bonfire.

Even if you don’t make a bunch of money on the deal, you’ll get a great story out of it, and the plane will have been disposed of.
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Current bid is $4100.
 
This would be a perfect project for @Rob58 and his gang. Paging...
 
I liked RDG. THey used to give you a box of pretzels with a fill up.
 
Thanks for the heads-up on this one. Very sad to see another Viking turn into a parts plane. Chances are the wings are history given the plane has been sitting outside since at least 2017. That leaves the engine, prop and turbos as the only things of much value and without the logs they are only good for their core value. Unfortunately there are many abandoned Vikings scattered around the country being dismembered for parts so there is not much of a market for airframe parts. Bellanca Aircraft would buy the powerpack for its core value as these Prestolite units are not produced any longer.
 
I should recommend this to my neighbor. He already has one Bellanca in his hangar that will never fly again.
 
StraightnLevel said:
The main event of the party is right at subset when you douse the plane in kerosene (it’s a wooden plane, after all).
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It's a tube-and-fabric airplane with a wooden wing, also fabric-covered. Burning it would release plenty of toxic smoke from the glues, polyester fabric and the finish coats. Doesn't sound to me like a picnic.
 
Zeldman said:
Be careful starting with a low bid thinking others will jump in and start the ball rolling. Might be no one else bids.

I accidentally bought a race car that way.
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I got an ATM for $10 from an S&L liquidation that way.
Alas, there was no money left inside it.
 
There's registration info available - search says the fellow is 73. Maybe has the logs yet, someplace?
 
Vintage? In the GA world, most anything built since World War II is a modern aircraft.

Well if nothing else, you can break it up for kindling this Winter, as long as the termites didn’t beat you to it.
 
No! For that matter, I’m a little leary of one that’s been in a hangar for years. How bad are the termites in the area where it has been stored?
 
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