Looking for a fuselage

Or a big propeller.

Now that our conversion to an aviation theme-suites hotel is almost
complete, we think it's time to make the *outside* of the place look more
aviation-ish. (We've only changed the inside, thus far.)

Anyone know where I can find an old Cessna 140 (for example) fuselage for
cheap that I could mount on a pole out front? Or a big ol' Convair prop?
Something I could hoist up onto a 3-story sign, to catch the eye of
travelers?

Anyone got any better ideas? Whatever we do, it can't be unsafe, and it
shouldn't look too kitschy...

Thanks!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote:

Anyone got any better ideas? Whatever we do, it can't be unsafe, and it
shouldn't look too kitschy...


Did you see the article in the EAA newsletter about the Beech Starship for sale on E-Bay? Only $50K so
far, and it would be quite the conversation piece!

Mike

Mike Adams wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote:


Anyone got any better ideas? Whatever we do, it can't be unsafe, and it
shouldn't look too kitschy...



Did you see the article in the EAA newsletter about the Beech Starship for sale on E-Bay? Only $50K so
far, and it would be quite the conversation piece!

Mike
That's going to go for a lot more. I think it's still got the entire panel and
all the interior left on it. You might try whoever buys it and see if there are
parts (like the props) that he might be willing to part with cheap.

Jay-- email me privately, I might have a line on some stuff for you.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:exoPd.33895$C24.16818@attbi_s52...
Or a big propeller.

Now that our conversion to an aviation theme-suites hotel is almost
complete, we think it's time to make the *outside* of the place look more
aviation-ish. (We've only changed the inside, thus far.)

Anyone know where I can find an old Cessna 140 (for example) fuselage for
cheap that I could mount on a pole out front? Or a big ol' Convair
prop?
Something I could hoist up onto a 3-story sign, to catch the eye of
travelers?

Anyone got any better ideas? Whatever we do, it can't be unsafe, and it
shouldn't look too kitschy...

How about a 1/8th scale P-51 (wood carved) on a pole out in front so it acts
like a weather vane? I saw on at a "homes on an airport" place once and it
was impressive.


--
Matt
---------------------
Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

1/8 scale is pretty small.

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Anyone know where I can find an old Cessna 140 (for example) fuselage for
cheap that I could mount on a pole out front? Or a big ol' Convair prop?
Something I could hoist up onto a 3-story sign, to catch the eye of
travelers?

Anyone got any better ideas? Whatever we do, it can't be unsafe, and it
shouldn't look too kitschy...

Cessna-on-a-stick, eh? That'll sure drag'em in off the highway. I'm
thinking the MidWest and the WestCoast have different definitions of
"kitschy."

Try something less real, more abstract and artsy. For instance, at
the Sacramento Airport, they put up some enormous colorful birds:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?L3372267A
[username: root password: password]

I'm not suggesting you go to that extent, but maybe some tastful
artwork on your existing sign or the front of your hotel. Get your
wife involved or your stained-glass artist friend. Props and wingless
fuselages appeal to 0.5% of your potential guests. Don't turn away
the other 99.5%.

On 12 Feb 2005 08:33:03 -0800, Bob Fry
wrote:

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Anyone know where I can find an old Cessna 140 (for example) fuselage for
cheap that I could mount on a pole out front? Or a big ol' Convair prop?
Something I could hoist up onto a 3-story sign, to catch the eye of
travelers?

Anyone got any better ideas? Whatever we do, it can't be unsafe, and it
shouldn't look too kitschy...

Cessna-on-a-stick, eh? That'll sure drag'em in off the highway. I'm
thinking the MidWest and the WestCoast have different definitions of
"kitschy."

Local Hilton...about two miles from the threshold of Renton Airport...used to
have a Cessna 150 on the roof, with "Hilton" painted on it. Got pretty famous.
Then the spoilsports in the city invoked a law that said businesses could only
have one sign visible from a particular side, and instead of removing the
twenty-foot-tall "HILTON" sign they removed the 150 instead. People still talk
about it....

Ron Wanttaja

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 18:54:33 GMT, Ron Wanttaja
wrote:

On 12 Feb 2005 08:33:03 -0800, Bob Fry
wrote:

"Jay Honeck" writes:

Anyone know where I can find an old Cessna 140 (for example) fuselage for
cheap that I could mount on a pole out front? Or a big ol' Convair prop?
Something I could hoist up onto a 3-story sign, to catch the eye of
travelers?

Anyone got any better ideas? Whatever we do, it can't be unsafe, and it
shouldn't look too kitschy...

Cessna-on-a-stick, eh? That'll sure drag'em in off the highway. I'm
thinking the MidWest and the WestCoast have different definitions of
"kitschy."

Local Hilton...about two miles from the threshold of Renton Airport...used to
have a Cessna 150 on the roof, with "Hilton" painted on it. Got pretty famous.
Then the spoilsports in the city invoked a law that said businesses could only
have one sign visible from a particular side, and instead of removing the
twenty-foot-tall "HILTON" sign they removed the 150 instead. People still talk
about it....

Ron Wanttaja

There used to be the tail section of a C150 sticking out of
the roof of a motel on Highway 99 just south of the Aurora
Bridge in Seattle. Looked just like the plane had crashed
into the roof.

John

There used to be the tail section of a C150 sticking out of
the roof of a motel on Highway 99 just south of the Aurora
Bridge in Seattle. Looked just like the plane had crashed
into the roof.

We talked about doing this, but decided that this was NOT the message we
wanted to send to the general public (the vast majority of our guests) about
aviation.

Especially given our proximity to the runway! (If you stand on the Red
Baron Suite's balcony, and have a really good arm, you could just about hit
Rwy 25 with a baseball...)

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

There used to be the tail section of a C150 sticking out of
the roof of a motel on Highway 99 just south of the Aurora
Bridge in Seattle. Looked just like the plane had crashed
into the roof.

We talked about doing this, but decided that this was NOT the message we
wanted to send to the general public (the vast majority of our guests)
about aviation.

Especially given our proximity to the runway! (If you stand on the Red
Baron Suite's balcony, and have a really good arm, you could just about
hit Rwy 25 with a baseball...)

A pub in Melbourne (Oz) used to (may still have) the nose of a diesel
locomotive against the wall with a paint and odd angle glued bricks job to
make it look like the train had run though the pub.

Back to the subject lo vis 2x4's on a wing can make a whole aircraft on a
pole a lot more managable. There have to be heaps where corrosion has made
the basic plane pretty cheap (at scrap can prices after parting)

--

regards

jc

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