What to do with L-13?

On May 4, 5:44*am, Gilbert Smith wrote:
ASM wrote:
On Thursday, May 3, 2012 6:16:51 AM UTC-7, wrote:
Our club (NJ - USA) has folded and we still have an L-13 taking up space. Before I call the local scrap yard I thought I'd ask if anyone might be interested in buying it at scrap value with the dreams of getting airworthy again. We also have an open trailer for it that will be available separately if the bird goes to the junk yard. mikefaddenathotmail.com.

Possibility:http://soaringcafe.com/2012/04/world...ilplanes-dead/

The lack of funds in the US soaring movement, compared to UK, always
surprises me.

Actually, there's no lack of funds but there is a widespread lack of
understanding of the effects of inflation. If 1960's prices for
gliders are inflated into today's funds, the prices are seen to be
about the same - but today, you get a much better glider for those
funds.

To someone who remembers spending less than $10,000 for a new trainer
in the 1960's, $115,000 seems like a lot of money when, in fact, the
two prices represent about the same value.

On May 3, 6:16*am, wrote:
Our club (NJ - USA) has folded and we still have an L-13 taking up space. Before I call the local scrap yard I thought I'd ask if anyone might be interested in buying it at scrap value with the dreams of getting airworthy again. We also have an open trailer for it that will be available separately if the bird goes to the junk yard. mikefaddenathotmail.com.

Offer it to the airport to mount on a stick for a wind sock.
(tetrahedron)

On May 3, 10:24*pm, T wrote:
On May 3, 6:16*am, wrote:

Our club (NJ - USA) has folded and we still have an L-13 taking up space. Before I call the local scrap yard I thought I'd ask if anyone might be interested in buying it at scrap value with the dreams of getting airworthy again. We also have an open trailer for it that will be available separately if the bird goes to the junk yard. mikefaddenathotmail.com.

Offer it to the airport to mount on a stick for a wind sock.
(tetrahedron)

See how many you can fit into a container and then ship them to
Australia?

See how many you can fit into a container and then ship them to
Australia?

That depends on powerful your compactor is and how small a cube of aluminum it can produce ;-)
If you melt them down first, 292kg of Al would be cube of only .108m^3 so I would say volume-wise, you could easily fit all 300 of them in one standard 20' container which has a volume of 1360cuft. The weight (87.6t) however may be more than what they allow to put into one box.

I know, that sounds heartless - I loved our Blechnik - until it's wing came off. It is a 50 year old design - R.I.P(ieces).

Uli

The Aircraft Design And Certification modification is applicable in
Canada (I'm surprised that it's not approved in the U.S. yet as
usually a method approved by the agency which controls the original
type approval for compliance with an A.D. issued by the same agency is
accepted by other governments as a matter of course) but so far as I
have been able to determine no one has had it done. Possibly if you
had an L-13 with no more than 2000 hours and which was otherwise in
very good shape and well equipped it might be worth doing. In Canada
the factory life limits and life limit extensions were applied as an
A.D. so my club sold it's last two L-13's several years ago for around
$4000 with trailers when they reached 4250 hours. At that point it
seemed that the cost and work involved in pursuing one last extension
wasn't really worth it. It hurt to sell them but we had been
depreciating them based on zero residual value at 3750 hours so at
least we were ready for it.