The owner is hiding them from being reposessed by creditors. In the early day of FedEx, CEO Fred Smith did the same thing.
Good, they found it. Was wondering where I left it.
They’re older models, but one would still think that with their registration codes and various serial numbers, they would be trackable.
Dang, I’m getting so forgetful in my old age!.................send them to me, guys, COD...........................
Jeez, I thought I parked them at Bradley International, but I guess I forgot where it was...all airports look the same... :-)
They’re 747-200’s, too uneconomical to operate these days even for freight.
Perhaps they can be used for refugee housing.
Lets have a FR donation drive to buy one of those 747s! We could park it with JimRob in CA.
Someone on Fox News pointed out that ISIS could very easily collect several for another 9/11 style attack.
My e-mail to him:
HI XXXX Did you leave any planes behind in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA)?? –Tom
His answer back to me.
They're not mine! But this kind of thing happens all the time. The value of aircraft can fall so low that the owners won't even move them to permanent storage. B747-200s are only worth scrap value at this point. It would cost half a million $ per aircraft just for fuel to move them to the boneyard. Even after taking possession for nothing, it will cost the airport lots of money to get rid of them.
In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, there's a DC8 sitting in the middle of an urban neighborhood. The government built a new airport and closed the old one. The runways and taxiways are all gone. The owner of the DC8 just abandoned it. It's now surrounded by houses, shops and roads.
I’ll take 1.
Boy, what a great present for my Mom. She never got to ride in a 747, yet, and this would make it easy!