USA 2017 - FROM THE AIR
~So'west~

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Photos © R.Leeuw

N80187 is a Cessna 172M (msn 17266431, mfr 1975)
When I asked if windows could cause a problem for photography, the reply was: "we'll open the windows"

I had booked a scenic flight at Double Eagle Aviation

www.amarc.info

While circling I noticed I could get a decent shot of Western International's yard and that of UAC (on the right)

That bottom line must be a part of 'Celebrity Row'

PINAL AIR PARK, MARANA AZ

These G-111/HU-16 Albatros seaplanes have been given a deadline: move or get scrapped!
N113FB was flown out, saved from the scrapman, in May 2018 (DETAILS) and N122FB in August 2018 (DETAILS)
N125FB (c/n 432; ex/ US Navy 141282) had been the 2nd, arriving on July 04th.
N118FB (no.4) arrived at its new home with Barron Aviation on 27Sep2018.
While headquartered at Perry,MO I think they are based at Hannibal Regional Airport, Missouri (a 40 mins drive from Perry).
Facebook update by Dillon Barron: "N116FB has engines on, N112FB passed her hydraulic checks with flying colors and is proudly
sitting on the ground again and we are getting set to wrap this up." ¬04Apr2019. (N116FB was ferried out on 15Apr2019)

I think these pictured by me are HU-16E N113FB (c/n 332); G-111 N122FB (c/n 218; ex/ USAF 51-7168); G-111 c/n 432 N125FB (ex/ US Navy 141282); G-111 c/n 452 N118FB (ex/ RCAF 9304); G-111 c/n 456 N119FB (ex/ RCAF 9308); G-111 c/n 460 N116FB (ex/ US Navy 148325); G-111 c/n 463 N112FB (ex/ US Navy 148328). ¬http://hu-16.com/unitedcapital.htm

 

 

MARANA REGIONAL AIRPORT

Marana Reg'l Airport on W Avra Valley Rd.
Did not allow myself a ground visit here this time, I did that in 2008 - SEE MY REPORT

A report in Scramble magazine #472 dated 14May18 showed all 4 C-54s N67034/T150, N67040/T147,
N96451/T111 plus SP-2H N80232/LZ still present and accounted for at Marana Regional Airport.

J Douglas Scroggins wrote on Facebook (23Jan21):"N67040 is one of the three C54s we purchased at Marana Regional Airport, AZ. As it reads on the data plate: C-54B, DAC 27232, Serial No. AF 43-90392, AC 361, ex-N67040 (tanker 147). A reply posted by Bryn Tarasenka added: "BuNo 90392, originally 44-9006; used by the navy as an R5D-2Z. Then as a Vip/staff aircraft, as a VC-54N." SCROGGINS AVIATION. The company was founded by its namesake, James Douglas Scroggins III. Initially the company operated in the aircraft dismantling, crash recovery and recycling industry, taking apart decommissioned airplanes and supplied aviation mockups. The company changed its name in 2015 to Scroggins Aviation Mockup & Effects, and began to focus on the restoration and modification of airframes and cockpits for use in feature film and television productions. This has included both the interior and exterior of various aircraft and helicopters, fabricating both airplane parts and fuselage sections for filming. [¬Wikipedia]

 

USA 2017
PAGE 1 - drive down from Eckert,CO to Tucson (included)
PAGE 2 - Phoenix area, Kingman and Muab (UT)
PAGE 3 - Tucson's Salvage Yards
PAGE 4 - Pima Air & Space Museum revisited
PAGE 5 - Flight over AMARG & Pinal Air Park

Reactions / comments welcomed.