LBJ plane

Let'sgoflying! said:
Found a couple of pics but no story on the net or their website. Apparently posted today:

http://www.fredericksburgstandard.c..._page=0&album_page=0&albumid=906&mediaid=8999
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Wonder why they are disassembling it - road trip, perhaps? They generally aren't so careful when they scrap a plane.

There is a hangar queen Jetstar where I hang out. The owners take it out and fly it for awhile a couple of times a year. Unless they do a lot of flying at night (when I'm not around), I cant imagine that they get much for the money they must spend keeping it airworthy (and hangared).

Dave
 
They have been virtually grounded for some time due to an AD on the tail. Lockheed advocated the AD, and then refused to make the replacement parts, for which they are the sole supplier. Word on the street is that LM wanted the fleet to disappear for product liability reasons, and used the AD to make them to away.

Sad deal, and somewhat poignant for me, since I put the deal together to for a sale-leaseback to LM (just L back then) by which an investor bought the airplane and leased it back to the company for use as their demonstrator for the J/S II with the dropped wing tanks and turbofan engines.



(that Lockheed advocated
cessna182b said:
Wonder why they are disassembling it - road trip, perhaps? They generally aren't so careful when they scrap a plane.

There is a hangar queen Jetstar where I hang out. The owners take it out and fly it for awhile a couple of times a year. Unless they do a lot of flying at night (when I'm not around), I cant imagine that they get much for the money they must spend keeping it airworthy (and hangared).

Dave
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What on Erf??? Why is that nice airplane lying around in randomly-scattered pieces????
 
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