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30 March 2016, 02:45
Palmer
De Plane
This G44A Widgeon is based at my home airport. It was the original plane in the Fantasy Island tv show.

Now, sadly it is going up for auction - by a friend of mine on April 15th at our local Branson, Mo. car auction.

We will miss seeing it around our pattern and on lake Taneycomo. Someone is going to get a bargain since there are not likely to be many amphib pilots at the show.








ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS

Into my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

A. E. Housman
02 April 2016, 08:58
INTJ
Cool plane!
03 April 2016, 05:59
surestrike
quote:
Someone is going to get a bargain since there are not likely to be many amphib pilots at the show.


I'd be shocked it went for less than high $300K and am guessing closer to $500K. If it goes for less than the high $300K's it truly was a bargain.



04 April 2016, 02:52
Grizzly Adams
Makes me think of the little guy Herve Villechaize and the bad end he came to.

Grizz


Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal. John E Pfeiffer, The Emergence of Man

Those who can't skin, can hold a leg. Abraham Lincoln

Only one war at a time. Abe Again.
04 April 2016, 15:50
Zephyr
Have a few handfuls of hours in one that belonged to an old boss who was the original owner. I believe it had the Mcdermott conversion on it which were a pair of 240hp Lycoming's?
It was a wicked classy airplane to fly both land and sea.
17 April 2016, 21:23
Palmer


Sold to a guy in Florida for $302,500. Should have brought more in good times ... but these ain't good times.



It was actually flown in to Lake Taneycomo then pulled to the auction room about 1/4 mile inland.


ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS

Into my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.

A. E. Housman