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Kuala Lumpur airport seeks owner of 'abandoned' jets
- pavel_lishin 11y ago> He added that in the past decade a few other planes, mostly smaller aircraft, have been abandoned, with one that was left in the 1990s eventually being bought and turned into a restaurant in a Kuala Lumpur suburb. That sounds fun. I'd definitely visit.
- WalterBright 11y agoMy favorite was Bomber Gas in Oregon where a scrap B-17 was used as the canopy over the gas pumps. I'd go out of my way to refill at Bomber Gas :-) Last I heard the value of it had gone up so much it was taken down and is being restored. Found it: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2968 http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2968
- dagw 11y agoIf that sort of things appeal to you, you should definitely stay at this hotel: http://www.jumbostay.com/media/ http://www.jumbostay.com/media/ next time you are in Stockholm.
- dismal2 11y agoGuess there's no DMV for airplanes?
- notahacker 11y agoThere are aircraft registries and commercial databases, but the picture is complicated somewhat by these aircraft having been deregistered for some time and the last known operator having returned them off lease even before that.
- msandford 11y agoPlus most of the time aircraft are worth actual money so people have an incentive not to let them rot. Of course, that's not always true.
- Freestyler_3 11y agohttp://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-22304.htm http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-22304.htm Yeah there is, but maybe its not regulated as well. Maybe they were rented/bought by scammers that needed an airplane in their scam.
- notahacker 11y agoThe scrap value of the jets is quite possibly less than the parking charges they've accumulated, unless there's a fair bit of life left on the engines and they can track down the technical records for them. Which if they can't track down the owner... (In the last couple of years I actually did have to deal with a different airport client considering repossessing some 747-200Fs)
- bhouston 11y agoPlane details: http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-22669.htm http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-22669.htm http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-22382.htm http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-22382.htm http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-22363.htm http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-b747-22363.htm All were owned at one time by Air Atlanta Icelandic. Air Atlanta Icelandic said they were returned to Boeing: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2015/12/08/air-atlanta-returned-aircraft/ http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2015/12/08/air-atlanta...
- pavel_lishin 11y ago> Hemannsson did not say who the owner of the aircraft was in 2010. That seems strange. Can't they ask for proof? If I park my car on someone's lawn, I can't just say "Nope, not my car anymore, I returned it to the rightful owner right before it ended up on top of your mailbox, and no, I won't tell you who that is."
- United857 11y agoHow long have they been there? Couldn't find this basic fact in any news source I read.
- 5555624 11y agoThe initial CNN article I saw, said: "Malaysia Airports general manager Zainol Mohd Isa told CNN the aircraft have been parked at KLIA for more than a year, having been abandoned at different times." Which isn't clear. have all three been there more than a year? How long has the longest one been there?