From: Jim Breneman (jimbre_7@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Dec 03 2004 - 13:55:20 PST
have any of you guys ever checked out www.Uh-1.com?
they have quite a few Uh-1s for sale, as well as
OH-58s, OH-6s, and everything in-between. Last I
checked they had about 14 Uh-1s for sale. They even
had CH-47, but its sold now. Anyway...I just thought
you guys would find it interesting.
--- Jim Breneman <jimbre_7@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- sandman9 <sandman9@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> > There is a complete one in Montana for $150000.00
> > John Peterson
> > MTA
> > CJMMP
> > MVPA
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
> > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> > <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 12:37 PM
> > Subject: Re: [MV] UH-1H in CA F/S
> >
> >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "sandman9" <sandman9@optonline.net>
> > > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> > <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 8:47 AM
> > > Subject: [MV] UH-1H in CA F/S
> > >
> > >
> > > > http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucalcat/
> > > > John Peterson
> > > > MTA
> > > > CJMMP
> > > > MVPA
> > >
> > > Yup. Minus every nut, bolt, screw and washer
> they
> > could nick. I just
> > read
> > > that the UH-1 'Huey' fleet is forecast to be
> > officially retired at the end
> > > of FY2004, which means Davis-Monthan will be
> > sitting on top of rows and
> > rows
> > > and rows more.
> > >
> > > They're actually at a bit of a loss to figure
> out
> > what to do with them
> > all,
> > > as police departments are finding them too
> > expensive to operate where
> > > something like a Jet Ranger will do just as
> > nicely, and the FAA doesn't
> > want
> > > to see tons of them released onto the market
> > because they don't want to
> > see
> > > the military-origin parts find their way on to
> > regularly flying existing
> > > civvy-side 204s and 205s because "they're
> > maintained to a different
> > > standard" (or so I remember reading - I don't
> > claim to be any sort of
> > > expert.) Foreign (friendly) governments have
> > little interest either, as
> > > they've been the beneficiaries of a lot of later
> > model Bell-family ships
> > in
> > > the more modern 'Twin' configuration (Bell 212s
> > and 412s) thanks to the
> > > largesse of the U.S. Government through the
> years,
> > so going back to aging
> > > singles can't be too attractive a proposition
> > regardless of the price.
> > >
> > > Some have been doled out to local small museums
> > across the U.S., but if
> > one
> > > fellow I know of is any indication, the Homeland
> > Security pricetag that
> > > comes with them isn't worth the trouble. He
> told
> > one of our members that
> > > The Authorities came by something like weekly at
> > little or no notice to
> > make
> > > sure his museum exhibit hadn't suddenly flown
> off
> > its pedestal or
> > > disintegrated into a pile of black-market parts,
> > so he told them to take
> > it
> > > back. If it were me, I think I probably
> would've
> > suggested an appropriate
> > > fleshy hangar too. :)
> > >
> > > In terms of a domestic swords-into-ploughshares
> > market, I think they run
> > int
> > > o trouble there too because of the different
> > maintenance schedules they
> > had
> > > during their life in the military vs. what an
> > equivalent Bell 204/205
> > would
> > > have to have undergone in x-number of years of
> > flying over civvystreet. I
> > > *think* the FAA restricts non-Governmental use
> of
> > the singles to things
> > like
> > > helicopter logging and pleasure flying under the
> > 'Experimental' category,
> > > but doesn't allow much else. In any event, I
> > *think* it's illegal to fly
> > a
> > > single commercially over a populated area unless
> > it's a Gov't agency doing
> > > the flying (Police Dept., Dept. of Forestry.,
> > FEMA, etc., etc), so again,
> > > any potential commercial market seems a narrow
> > one.
> > >
> > > I'd very much like to see some of them make it
> > into collector hands as
> > > either 'Experimental' category flying
> restorations
> > for those with deep
> > > pockets, or static examples so people can get a
> > closeup of a huge part of
> > > rotary wing history (and the first new chapter
> in
> > modern military mobility
> > > tactics) without having to travel half the
> country
> > to see it. Knowing the
> > > rampant paranoia in official circles at the
> moment
> > though, I bet they
> > either
> > > sit at Davis Monthan until they're baked into
> > aluminum puddles, or DRMS
> > will
> > > decree they're getting into the aluminum beer
> can
> > business. That would be
> > a
> > > shame. Some of those ships have some serious
> (and
> > documented) history
> > > behind them back to the rice paddies of Vietnam,
> > and the U.S. Gov't should
> > > be aware that there are people who would line up
> > to help preserve that if
> > > given the opportunity.
> > >
> > > (The U.S. had something like 960-plus left on
> the
> > books in FY2003 from
> > what
> > > I remember, with only some 330 of those in
> > operational-ready condition.
> > > That number's set to become zero by next April.)
> > >
> > >
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