Airline seats anywhere?

[James Wren]

Does anyone know where I might be able to get hold of
a second hand airline passenger seat?. I'm re-branding
Air India as part of my Design Degree, and a seat
would be a nice touch!. Not having much luck scouring
the net, hopefully until now!
Cheers
James Wren (England)

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[EDR]

In article >, James Wren
> wrote:

> Does anyone know where I might be able to get hold of
> a second hand airline passenger seat?. I'm re-branding
> Air India as part of my Design Degree, and a seat
> would be a nice touch!. Not having much luck scouring
> the net, hopefully until now!
> Cheers
> James Wren (England)

Contact a freight outfit that flies converted airliners.
They will often sell the seats they remove from the aircraft.
I know of one outfit, here in the states, that sells the three-abreast
coach seats and the two-abreast first-class seats.

[Don Tuite]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:06:03 +0200, Martin Hotze
> wrote:

>James Wren > wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know where I might be able to get hold of
>> a second hand airline passenger seat?. I'm re-branding
>> Air India as part of my Design Degree, and a seat
>> would be a nice touch!. Not having much luck scouring
>> the net, hopefully until now!
>> Cheers
>> James Wren (England)
>
>
>Lufthansa sells seats. Contact them (they advertise it from time to time
>in magazines) via their website.

One used to be able to find them at the Boeing surplus store in Kent,
Washington.

Don

[Jordan]

On 13 Oct 2003 11:27:36 GMT, James Wren > wrote:

>Does anyone know where I might be able to get hold of
>a second hand airline passenger seat?. I'm re-branding
>Air India as part of my Design Degree, and a seat
>would be a nice touch!. Not having much luck scouring
>the net, hopefully until now!
>Cheers
>James Wren (England)
>
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Like other suggestions, call around to places that do conversions and
such. When I was looking I found several places online but they were
all in the US, not the UK. I ended up buying one from Kelowna
Flightcraft (local they do 727, convair and 37 work and conversions).
They weren't cheap though. I got a 2 wide executive class leather with
the inflatable rafts and flight mags and safety cards etc etc and they
wanted $350 USD.

Also, you might try eBay, I saw a few examples on there (again not in
the UK)

[John Ross]

In one of the "Ask the Pilot" columns on Salon.com, Patrick Smith mentions
"Plane World" near the Miami airport as selling seats from an Eastern L-
1011 for $550.

The full story is
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2003/03/21/askthepilot33/index1.html

although you may need to be a subscriber to Salon to see it.

-John Ross

[Roger Hamlett]

"Martin Hotze" > wrote in message
...
> James Wren > wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know where I might be able to get hold of
> > a second hand airline passenger seat?. I'm re-branding
> > Air India as part of my Design Degree, and a seat
> > would be a nice touch!. Not having much luck scouring
> > the net, hopefully until now!
> > Cheers
> > James Wren (England)
>
>
> Lufthansa sells seats. Contact them (they advertise it from time to time
> in magazines) via their website.
>
> #m
> --
> http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/
As a seperate comment, James does not say whereabouts in the UK he is. There
is a 'scrapyard', in Stock ESSEX, which dismantles a lot of military, and a
few civilian planes. Generally the seats are removed before they get to this
yard, but on occassion, I have seen planes there with seats (a couple of
months ago, they has an old 'Viscount', being stripped). I have also seen
aircraft seats at the Beltring military fair. Both these places, would
require personal visits.
There are several aircraft interior refurbishment companies, who might well
be able to supply a seat. 'Airbase Services', in Crewe, & Ipeco (Southend),
are examples.
Seats also sometimes come up on Ebay.
He may well be suprised at how much they go for, if the condition is good.

Best Wishes

[Paul Sengupta]

Rafts? Or just life jackets? $350?

Paul

"Jordan" > wrote in message
...
> They weren't cheap though. I got a 2 wide executive class leather with
> the inflatable rafts and flight mags and safety cards etc etc and they
> wanted $350 USD.

[Jordan]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 16:12:07 +0100, "Paul Sengupta"
> wrote:

>Rafts? Or just life jackets? $350?
>
>Paul
>
>"Jordan" > wrote in message
...
>> They weren't cheap though. I got a 2 wide executive class leather with
>> the inflatable rafts and flight mags and safety cards etc etc and they
>> wanted $350 USD.
>
Jackets and rafts, they had a huge warehouse of 727 parts and a whole
aisle of seats. The guy was really good about it. Yes $350 we ended up
getting them for $500 cdn including tax back when the dollar was alot
weaker.

The let us have all the rafts and jackets we wanted because they had
expired, pretty useless after that. They more than likely still work
but you can't put them in a plane.

[Jordan]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 17:45:23 +0100, "Paul Sengupta"
> wrote:

>"Jordan" > wrote in message
...
>> The let us have all the rafts and jackets we wanted because they had
>> expired, pretty useless after that. They more than likely still work
>> but you can't put them in a plane.
>
>Mmm...suppose a time expired one's better than none at all? Do these
>things have to be in date and approved in the UK for a private flight?
>
>Paul


No idea. I only know the Canadian rules and I imagine the law's idea
of a raft is one that is certified fully functional. It would really
suck to go in the drink and not have it inflate for you.

[Paul Sengupta]

"Jordan" > wrote in message
...
> No idea. I only know the Canadian rules and I imagine the law's idea
> of a raft is one that is certified fully functional. It would really
> suck to go in the drink and not have it inflate for you.

It couldn't inflate less than not having carried one at all! I've
got some light jackets but never bothered with a raft. Flying
Cessnas and Pipers before, I considered that I'd never
actually get it out of the plane if I had to ditch. Now
however I've got a sliding canopy aeroplane, and I'd have a
better chance of getting it out. Still hadn't thought of buying
one (haven't made any over-water flights yet!) but if I can
get one for not much money then I might as well carry it on
the off chance I fly over water...

Paul

[G.R. Patterson III]

Jordan wrote:
>
> It would really suck to go in the drink and not have it inflate for you.

Are these one-shot deals, or can you test inflate them on the ground?

George Patterson
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