Ambulance from 'Ariel' found in aircraft graveyard!
POSTED BY: BrownCoat1
UPDATED: Saturday, April 22, 2006 08:19
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I listened to this week's "The Signal" ( www.serenityfirefly.com) podcast and they mentioned Akin's find. Now there will be more than ever waiting for news on this great find. I'm only sad that they didn't mention it to Adam Baldwin in their interview.
- Leto_V
"Well, my days of not taking you
seriously are certainly coming to
a middle." - Mal
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Good gorram! We gotta get that thing! That's awesome. :D I'd totally be down for forming a conglomerate of fans to purchase and restore it. We cannot let that thing go to waste!
-Taylor
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Originally posted by LetoV:
I listened to this week's "The Signal" ( www.serenityfirefly.com) podcast and they mentioned Akin's find. Now there will be more than ever waiting for news on this great find. I'm only sad that they didn't mention it to Adam Baldwin in their interview.
- Leto_V
"Well, my days of not taking you
seriously are certainly coming to
a middle." - Mal
Bit of an update... http://www.livejournal.com/users/akin/205927.html
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"Well, guess it's time for an update about the Firefly Ambulance...
Went up there again yesterday... was on the way to Bakersfield to check at the Kern County Assessor's Office to try to find out who owns the property, since nothing we had done had worked yet. Adam Whiting has been doing unbelievable internet sleuthing!
The good news is that while I was up there, securing a sign to the gate asking for the owner to please call me... the owner pulled up! Turns out that Adam had it right all along... it was the same outfit that he had located, it's just that there website is all messed up and none of the links or contact info was working. It is not Scroggins Avaition!
The bad news... he isn't too excited about selling. he is going to talk with his dad (who still technically owns it all, although he's getting on in years) about whether or not they would sell it. He would happily trade it for some kind of surplus aviation stuff or something, but I doubt that the fan community has a whole lot available.
He plans on creating an museum of sorts with some of his many aircraft (he has two more lots with a lot more that I was unaware of), and he wants to include the ambulance in it. I'm not sure why he wants to keep it, since it's not a real aircraft and he knows it, but at least if he makes his museum people would be able to visit it. He will not let people in to see it now (hope he never finds my LJ! heh...)"
Hmmm......
The owner is not interested in selling??? That is not good. It is not even a real aircraft so I am curious as to why he wants to hold onto it. Could be he senses an interest and is setting the stage to drive the cost to sell high.
Perhaps a fund drive is in order to gather funds to see if we can purchase it. I know I for one am lacking in antique aviation equipment just lying around to trade him, but I would gladly donate money to save the ship.
Thoughts?
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Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
Hmmm......
The owner is not interested in selling??? That is not good. It is not even a real aircraft so I am curious as to why he wants to hold onto it. Could be he senses an interest and is setting the stage to drive the cost to sell high.
Perhaps a fund drive is in order to gather funds to see if we can purchase it. I know I for one am lacking in antique aviation equipment just lying around to trade him, but I would gladly donate money to save the ship.
Thoughts?
__________________________________________
"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:
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There was someone on another board who claimed he had "more money than time" and wanted to help out... did anyone else see that one? I can't remember where it was...
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Scroggins sounds like many people I know in the VW community. As soon as there's interest in something, it's either not for sale or costs something extravagant!
Damn you Scroggins! You're now a villian in a fic I'll write someday!
-Taylor
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Quote:
Originally posted by UnchartedOutlaw:
Scroggins sounds like many people I know in the VW community. As soon as there's interest in something, it's either not for sale or costs something extravagant!
Damn you Scroggins! You're now a villian in a fic I'll write someday!
-Taylor
Well, remember, it is NOT Scroggins Aviation... it is another firm altogether...
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Well, dangit...there's gonna be a villian. ;) Just get me his name whenever, okay? Heard the finding report on Signal #4 today, too. Mighty shiny. Even my FF friends at work were impressed with the find!
-Taylor
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My father has some Air Force connections to the junk yard in NV, I'll see what I can do but don't hope for much.
I was at that junk yard once when I was a lot younger, has military aviation of every kind from the past 40 years or so. I know there will be something in there he will want, the trick is to see how hard it would be for me to get it.
Aglaca
You can't take the sky from me.
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Originally posted by Aglaca:
My father has some Air Force connections to the junk yard in NV, I'll see what I can do but don't hope for much.
I was at that junk yard once when I was a lot younger, has military aviation of every kind from the past 40 years or so. I know there will be something in there he will want, the trick is to see how hard it would be for me to get it.
Aglaca
You can't take the sky from me.
Wow... if you can find any kind of airframes, or in particular any kind of unique pieces, he would most likely deal...
Then, of course, we'd have to figure out what to do with it...
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