Got any leads on old, abandoned planes?

ateamer said:
There’s a Cherokee on the ramp at Okeechobee, Florida (KOBE) that doesn’t appear to have moved in years.

And it’s been a minute, but Watsonville, CA (KWVI) had a Bonanza and a Cherokee Six sitting derelict for at least five years. There was also an Aero Commander purportedly being worked on, but not likely that the guy had the funds to ever finish. It was on the ramp at Specialized.
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Awesome, thanks so much. Will check it out!
 
Bell206 said:
aircraft registrations have been cancelled via the same process which can make it very difficult to ever register the aircraft again.
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That's not true at all. Buy the airplane, submit the bill of sale and registration form to the FAA, and go flying. Easy easy.

Paul
 
PaulMillner said:
That's not true at all. Buy the airplane, submit the bill of sale and registration form to the FAA, and go flying. Easy easy.
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Not quite. If your Bill of Sale does not have the signature of the last registered owner or their defined legal representative then the Registry will not accept your application. There are a number of guidance docs that explain this chain of ownership. And attempts to rectify a broken chain of ownership can be time consuming and costly which possibly could exceed the value of the aircraft. The two main reasons aircraft remain "abandoned" is the current owner/estate is unknown or non-existent or the current owner/estate does not want to sell. If it was as "easy easy" as you state there wouldn't be a single abandoned aircraft anywhere as I know I would have bought 14+ of them over the past 35 years. This was also the reason the FAA went to renewable aircraft registrations to purge aircraft with broken or questionable chains of ownership.
 
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