brett 2,315 Posted July 7, 2014 Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 A pretty impressive feat these folks pulled off. The love of aviation knows no bounds when it comes to the rescue of their crashed C-47, check it out. As you were; converted C-47 2 Link to post Share on other sites
TheeAviationist 18 Posted July 7, 2014 Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 Wow. Link to post Share on other sites
J G 927 Posted July 7, 2014 Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 Amazing! thanks for sharing that Brett. Link to post Share on other sites
Andrew Godden 943 Posted July 8, 2014 Report Share Posted July 8, 2014 The conversion cost from a DC-3 to a Basler BT-67 is about $7 to $7.5 million. It would be interesting to know the total cost of repair for this recovery. Though, given the unique load carrying / cost effective capabilities of the BT-67 on skis, I really don't think it's an issue. Great video, Brett. Cheers Andrew Link to post Share on other sites
brett 2,315 Posted July 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2014 The conversion cost from a DC-3 to a Basler BT-67 is about $7 to $7.5 million. It would be interesting to know the total cost of repair for this recovery. Though, given the unique load carrying / cost effective capabilities of the BT-67 on skis, I really don't think it's an issue. Great video, Brett. Cheers Andrew At that price I can see why they would want to recover it. Looks like the company people did the work, they had the other aircraft to ferry them and I am sure they wanted their baby back(especially if they owed money on it). Lidia is a girls name, maybe sentiment had a part. It sat for a year, I think it said in the vid, so they had time to figure it out and get what they needed. If the work couldn't be accomplished I would think they would then strip the plane for parts. One thought I had for recovery, was the fact that this is a spot they use often for their sightseeing tours, best not to let the passengers see what happened to the last plane that landed there. Cost, not sure about that part of it. A guesstimate would be around 100-200 hundred thousand, parts, fuel and labor. Not sure how bad the engines were damaged. Link to post Share on other sites
Quickmarch 488 Posted July 8, 2014 Report Share Posted July 8, 2014 Great find, Brett, thanks. Link to post Share on other sites
J G 927 Posted July 8, 2014 Report Share Posted July 8, 2014 I think at one point in the video a figure of $5,000 dollars a day was mentioned. But I doubt that included that cost of parts, resourcing parts and the cost of shipping stuff out to the crash site. Link to post Share on other sites
dodgy-alan 1,587 Posted July 8, 2014 Report Share Posted July 8, 2014 Thanks for posting Brett. really interesting vid. Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted July 8, 2014 Report Share Posted July 8, 2014 Amazing! Need I say more. Thanks Brett. Link to post Share on other sites
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