Michigan flight museum has sold B17g yankee lady.
Posted by magnumfan89@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 10 comments
New owner is not known, any guesses? I'm guessing the CAF to replace Texas raiders.
Its kinda sad for me. I'm going to miss going outside and watching it take off.
_ROBIN_SAGE_@reddit
I just learned this today, ruined my whole day. My great uncle worked on restoring and maintaining that plane for 35 years. He hated that director, now I see why. You sell every other plane, you don’t sell the B-17. They’ll just piss the money away on some garbage. They also painted the WWII veteran “Yankee Warrior” B-25, and renamed it “Rosie’s Reply”. You don’t paint beautiful all aluminum planes…. They’re only bare aluminum once… I seriously would not piss on these people if they were on fire today. This is not how you honor WWII veterans, including dozens of B-17 pilots and crew who worked their asses off to restore and maintain that plane for decades. Infuriating.
magnumfan89@reddit (OP)
I really hope it goes to a good home, and not a museum where it will just sit. I'd be really pissed.
_ROBIN_SAGE_@reddit
That plane should be flown and shown. Not polished with a diaper by one guy…. I hope it goes somewhere where they fly it. As far as the newly named “Michigan flight museum”, at this particular moment, I feel like they can go the way of the dinosaur. They had one mission…. ONE!
magnumfan89@reddit (OP)
Here's an update: going to new Zealand to be "restored", then going to a private collection in CA. The new owner already has 2 b17s.
magnumfan89@reddit (OP)
I agree. That airplane was almost NEVER flown, I love right by willow run. I saw it fly maybe 5 times a year. It was never flown anywhere besides home
ChevTecGroup@reddit
Wow. That's crazy. That's their flagship bird.
magnumfan89@reddit (OP)
I know. They said that they can't generate the revenue needed to keep it flying to their standard.
ChevTecGroup@reddit
Better than skipping on maint then I guess
magnumfan89@reddit (OP)
Yeah. But now I think they will have less revenue because of less people flying
Cessnateur@reddit
Not necessarily. They explained in a press release that they'll take the money and invest it, and they expect the returns to perform more reliably than the original revenue stream. Apparently, lengthy downtime for maintenance, both scheduled and unscheduled, made the B-17 revenue pretty inconsistent.