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For planes that are being retired, they usually take the engines off pretty early because they have some of the most valuable parts for resale in them. They’d
by stephen_g 6y ago
For planes that are being retired, they usually take the engines off pretty early because they have some of the most valuable parts for resale in them.
They’d also be drained of all fluids. For planes in storage to be used again later, they fill all the fuel, hydraulic, etc. lines with special liquids to keep them preserved. So it’d be at least a week’s work for a team to get a stored plane going.
- BurningFrog 6y agoMost 747s won't be used again. Could I buy one to have in my backyard? Any idea on price?
- sjwright 6y agoAssuming you don’t have a 1500–2000 metre heavy aircraft runway in your backyard, it’s the shipping costs that would likely kill you.
- BurningFrog 6y agoI guess it would have to be disassembled and shipped in pieces. Unless a cargo blimp can take it. Do such things exist?
- lmm 6y agoThe Airlander 10 wrote off their old prototype, and has a maximum payload of 10 tonnes, whereas an unloaded 747 is about 180 tonnes. Remember it's a plane so big that they used to piggyback the space shuttle orbiters (which are not small) on it.
- BurningFrog 6y agoSounds like it could be done in 20 trips. Also sounds like even if they give the plane away, just shipping it will be a ~7 digit expense. I hereby withdraw my interest!
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI know nothing about this, but there are people who move their houses, surely a plane is easier than that.