[simpits-tech] F-111 cockpit shells/Tucson AMARC

[Gene Buckle]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, dabigboy at cox.net wrote:

> Not sure if this is of interest to anyone, but during a visit to see my 
> dad 2 weeks ago in AZ, I went through the AMARC boneyard tour, and it 
> seems that all those F-111s they have are now officially being junked 
> for scrap metal. Entirely. The guy said literally the week before they 
> had a ramp full of probably hundreds of them, and by the time I was 
> there that entire ramp was practically clean.
>
> It occurred to me that a willing simpit builder might be able to 
> purchase the fuselage/nose of one for a song at this point, basically 
> for the price of the scrap metal perhaps? I really don't know how it 
> works, but I do believe there is an office on-base for selling 
> government property (ergo, the planes, in this case) to organizations 
> and private individuals.

I suspect that if you buy it at scrap metal prices, you'll be required to 
certify that it's actually turned into scrap metal.  A couple of F-15A 
models went up for scrap auction a few years ago.  As part of the 
purchase, you were required to have a 3rd party validate their 
"conversion" to scrap metal (ie. ground up into tiny bits) before you were 
allowed to take them off the AMARC property.

g.


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