(Direct cost only. Indirect costs, such as long term injury care, equipment losses, and so on double to triple this amount. Multiple major disease cures or two manned missions to Mars and back would have cost about the same. Which endeavors do you think the world would have respected more, and motivated terrorists less?)
Contact Info Tours & Visits Driving Directions Copyright, Media, & Pilot's Overflight Info FAQ's Items Needed Items For Sale Spam More
May 2003 and June 2004 Aerials (click for full size):
From 20 September 2002: Click
here or the large image above for much higher resolution versions
of it and many other exterior images.
From 24 November 2001: Click here
for images from the Robert and Ray Baetke, and Bill Leppo. (Many
thanks guys!)
Earlier images below.
Current Status: Aircraft restoration and domestic infrastructure work, and my current email response limitation - updated 31 July 2002, see the recent image links above for recent progress notes.
Copyright and Media Information, plus Overflight Information for all Pilots
Driving directions to my home site - updated 13 April 2003
Items or Information Needed - updated 23 February 2005
Items For Sale - updated 5 April 2004
Precision Drawings, including the transport configuration - updated 6 February 1999
Home Site Drawings - 23 August 1998
Press Corrections - updated 2 February 2000
Obligations Agenda - updated 3 November 2000
Hazmat Issues - 12 September 1998
Newsletters - obsolete, last updated 7 October 1998
Hillsboro Airport and Hillsboro Fair Complex Management Plan
References:
Max Power Aerospace, Inc.: A very interesting company with aircraft home conversion projects
AirplaneHome.nl: An airplane home ambition in the Netherlands (translate from Dutch to English here)
The Memphis Group: Another company with aircraft home conversion experience
The Cosmic Muffin, an intriguing and artfully converted PlaneBoat
Ron Sillett's Images of the aircraft at the Fair Complex site
Walt Catino's Images of the aircraft at the Fair Complex site
Robert Baetke's Images of the aircraft at the Fair Complex site
The tow up the Denfeld's driveway, compliments Scott & Renee Huskey and family.
Personal Images from Aero Control's Shelton, WA site: High resolution Low Resolution
Some key contacts (see also Transport Strategies and Tactics):
Highly Recommended: Wayne Grippin
Construction & House Moving, Wayne Grippin: voice 503-585-5410.
Mobile 503-320-8337
Also Recommended: Swanson Trucking: voice 503-668-0756, 503-760-2094,
or 503-761-1013. Pager 503-273-0866
Hillsboro Towing, Mike: voice 648-0558, pager 940-6015
Global Aviation, Brian Lockhart: Voice 648-6403 , Fax 681-8844
Aero Air, Line Service Manager Alan Jones: 640-3711
Port of Portland, Hillsboro Airport, Steve, cell: 720-9942
Hillsboro Road and Traffic Coordination, Tim Drain: 681-6249
Washington County LUT, Ron Sillett: 681-7080
Washington County Fair Complex Administration, Bill McKinley:
648-1416
Acknowledgments:
Many thanks to Monmouth Technologies for providing high speed hosting for this site. Profound thanks to Paul, Chris and Sean Denfeld for their remarkably high level of unwavering support and good cheer. They are the kind of neighbors everyone dreams of having. Profound thanks too to Julie and James Hanson, who provided the vehicle, the brains, and the brawn, and braved horrendous weather conditions to haul material to my home site, and who later helped me clean up the Fair Complex staging site, a mud fest of a job, and who's company, Northwest Computer Solutions, Inc., hosted this site at an earlier time. Similar thanks to many others, including Wayne Grippin Construction & House Moving, Swanson Trucking, Jim Freeman, Robert Baetke, and others too numerous to list, without whom this project would quite literally be impossible. Human beings can be very cool.
Kudos to all, especially the physically active, for their skill and determination under very difficult conditions during the Cornell Road crossing. Thanks to Alan Jones, Lee Bryant, Aaron Bryant, Steve Boyce and others at Aero Air for defueling and preparing the aircraft and thus making the Cornell Road crossing possible.
Many thanks to Larry from Texas, who has graciously contributed substantially to this project both in hardware and in spirit. Larry's help has been key and is very highly appreciated.
Thanks to Carl Van Wormer and family, who share the exploratory spirit and thus inspire and encourage the creative and playful juices.
Many thanks to television - youth exposure to occasional videos of the aircraft boneyards in Arizona provided original inspiration for the project. Many thanks and congratulations to Joanne Ussery in Benoit, Mississippi, who demonstrated that a Boeing 727 home is attractive and viable, Bo Branch of Bo Branch Home Movers, Morgan City, Mississippi, voice 601-254-7162, who transported her aircraft, and The Memphis Group, Memphis, Tennessee, who provided her aircraft. I follow in the path created by these trailblazers, and many others who explore and test alternative home options.
Fellow nerds: Check out Testec's
(Carl Van Wormer) "ShortSniffer",
for finding the location of electrical shorts. It's well executed,
very inexpensive ($100 basic price), and very useful.
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