Basket case for sale or ? 1941 BF 12 65 Float plane

[Hank Jarrett]

Sounds like a workable solution. After the parts are in a trailer, where next? We will need a place with enough room to spread things out, identify them and then pack them away. You DO NOT want to do it like my "rescue' parts. I have one hangar with a plane in it and a second with HUGE piles of parts I can't even spread out to ID. Organization is key to actually making use of the parts, and I don't have it. What I would suggest is some way to have several "depots" in different parts of the country. Just a place to hold all the spare parts we all collect so that they can at least be identified for later distribution to different users. We REALLY need to establish regional clubs again so we can cooperate efficiently again. When the Mid-Atlantic Taylorcraft club was active it worked well here.

Hank

[T.Wiley]

That would be nice to have such a place but it is costly. The plane is on an open flat bed trailer. I wish had the time and place to part it out.
Hate to take it to the scrap yard.
Tim

[N96337]

I agree Hank!! If we can't get anything else, I've got a place to spread it out and figure out what's good and what isn't, and store it. The worst part is getting them distributed to whoever needs them afterwords. I'll do whatever I can.
John

[Hank Jarrett]

I actually enjoy the posts with mystery parts. Seems like there are a lot of us who like to figure out what stuff is and where it goes.

Hank

[jsapiano]

I may have missed it. Where is this aircraft located please?

[Hank Jarrett]

Where to start. Just glad you are in Portland or I would be getting her for parts and possible restoration core. My wife would kill me and then come after you! As someone else said the engine certainly has lots of parts even if it isn't rebuild-able. Looks like maybe Eisemann mags (which I love). It has a post war instrument panel but there is at least one ivory original knob on the RH side of the sub panel. I would like to get that to make a mold to make replicas. The throttle knob is also a pre war (slightly different shape). The spokes on the banjo wheels might be reusable and are really hard to make (trust me!) There are a number of placards and some of them look like the originals. The fuselage is a post war, NOT a 41 (somebody has rebuilt her in the past and put a newer fuselage on the plane). The RH door is a post war sheet metal one and looks OK, or at least could be straightened. The fin and rudder look like two hinge post war ones and the "D" windows are post BC-12D (like those on the F-19 and later). RH wing tank looks pretty good and the LH tank area isn't too badly crushed and could be good too. Lots of turnbuckles (which are EXPENSIVE) and those cable bugs can be hard to find too. Looks like the belts are OK, although I don't know how people would feel about wearing a seat belt someone died in. Personally there are several parts in my plane a good friend was holding at the end and for me, it helps keep his memory close. I wouldn't take them out for anything. In a pre war crash the stick ribs tend to punch through the wing skin like a porcupine. I don't see any "T" section sticking through which makes me think the wings are also post war stamped ribs. Looks like many could still be good. Not worth a lot, but worth saving.
As I said, if I was close I would come over and help strip out the pile for useful parts, but the plane is actually a "Frankenstein" with pre war paper and post war parts. The paperwork is still valuable if someone wants to keep her on the books as "under restoration". I did that on a 40 and found a museum restorer who got a 40 with no paper. I donated the paper and my friends plane will fly again one day with a lot of his parts in her. His was also a Frankenstein with a bunch of original parts that I pulled from the wreckage. Keeping the pre war parts in a box with the paperwork doesn't take much room or trouble and could turn your trailer of wreckage into a Phoenix. I can't wait to see my friends 40 fly again.

Hank

[beaverbill]

Our EAA Chapter here in Fairbanks has a 1940 BL-65 that we need to sell. We have the fuselage serial number, but no paperwork. The fuselage looks undamaged, as do the wings and ailerons. Boot cowl, several sets of doors, fuel tanks, and miscellaneous other parts. These parts have been stored indoors for many years. Might make a good match--up with the plane being discussed here. Fairbanks may sound like the ends of the earth to some folks, but really it's just an easy 5 day drive from Portland. I have hauled airplane projects one direction or the other several times. Some potential for a round trip with loads going each direction too.
Bill

[Stumpy]

Tim,

We'll take her. I have a hangar and a large barn an hour east of Everett, WA....NE of Seattle. Have two partial airframes but no paperwork (besides my '46 T that's together and flying). Also have quite a few A and C continental parts...could likely make a whole out of your stuff and ours. Trying to put together a project for two young guys just finishing high school actually. Picked up some of Steve Fribley's stuff at auction last week too.

Have a truck and trailer. Can get down at your convenience. I'll send you a PM with cell/text number.

thanks
Bob

[Hank Jarrett]

MAN! I love it when this happens! Another Taylorcraft will be resurrected fro the dead! Please keep us all up on progress getting everything together and sorted. You need to start a 1940 T resurrection thread!

Hank

[T.Wiley]

I found someone to take the plane. He will be adding the parts to the parts he has and plans to build the T-craft.
Thanks for all the interest.
Tim

[astjp2]

I have a fuselage that seems straight, someone could use it with your parts Tim

[T.Wiley]

I believe that they have wing parts and a fuselage that they are planning on using. But they can chime in if they need one. Thanks
Tim