BeechTalk - BT - 1954 HU-16 Albatross Miss Splash

Username Protected · **Posted:** 18 Dec 2025, 09:54

So I have been familiar with the airplane for a long time. I do know it had a repaired center section after Oshkosh of 2008. Classic in Shenandoah valley did that. There was extensive spares inventory at one time but I’m not sure now. The one engine I thought was low time, the other was almost time mid time I remember correctly.
Craig Woodberry

Username Protected · **Posted:** 18 Dec 2025, 09:58

Username Protected wrote:

So I have been familiar with the airplane for a long time. I do know it had a repaired center section after Oshkosh of 2008. Classic in Shenandoah valley did that. There was extensive spares inventory at one time but I’m not sure now. The one engine I thought was low time, the other was almost time mid time I remember correctly.
Craig Woodberry

You buy it and I'll come help get it up to snuff to fly back to VA :rofl:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 18 Dec 2025, 10:36

Username Protected wrote:

With the terrible terms for the auction I wonder if someone in the background that wants it is dictating such terms.

There is a good chance that is true. Cash only is pretty rare. What harm is there in accepting a 10% non refundable deposit with balance due within 24 hours.

I bought a ground looped Lockheed Lodestar on an insurance company sealed bid and about a week after I purchased it I got a certified letter from the Tampa Port Authority that managed the Plant City Airport. I was informed that I had 15 days to remove the “derelict” airplane. I had two other parts planes in Nassau and had everything to repair it and had it sold as a packaged project.

When I talked to the airport manager he was a complete prick and then informed me that before I could disassemble it I needed to obtain a crazy high liability policy naming the airport.

I showed up at 5AM on a Sunday with my flatbed crane truck and two other trucks and trailers. I used a broom handle to trigger the electric gate switch. By noon when the airport manager showed up we had the engines and props loaded and the rest of the airframe mostly cut up and laying on the ramp. After he finished pitching his temper tantrum I told him I would be happy to leave now or I could stay and clean up the mess. He walked off shaking his head cussing me and we left the ramp broom clean.

I am convinced he was trying to help someone else get the plane.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 20 Dec 2025, 12:16

Username Protected wrote:

So I have been familiar with the airplane for a long time. I do know it had a repaired center section after Oshkosh of 2008. Classic in Shenandoah valley did that. There was extensive spares inventory at one time but I’m not sure now. The one engine I thought was low time, the other was almost time mid time I remember correctly.
Craig Woodberry

You buy it and I'll come help get it up to snuff to fly back to VA :rofl:

Username Protected · **Posted:** 31 Dec 2025, 10:11

Username Protected wrote:

NOTICE
PUBLIC AUCTION OF DERELICT AIRPLANE

Public auction on Friday, January 30, 2026 at 11 a.m. at the Warrenton-Fauquier Airport located at 5075 Airport Road in Midland, Virginia. Airplane to be auctioned: 1954 Grumman HU 16E aircraft (Serial Number 2132; N-Number 226GR). The last registered owner is Michael A. De Geus.

For more information, visit: Warrenton-Fauquier Airport Airplane Sale. The derelict airplane is offered for sale by the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors pursuant to VA Code § 5.1-2.25, et seq. so it can be removed from the Warrenton-Fauquier Airport and the Board can recover its fees and costs of removal, delinquent tie-down rent, and delinquent airport maintenance fees.

Terms of sale: No reserve. No minimum bid. No preregistration required. High bidder must pay the purchase price entirely in cash. Checks, wires, and credit cards will not be accepted. Entirety of purchase price due immediately at the close of the auction. No time will be allotted for high bidder to leave the auction to obtain cash. Airplane is offered for sale as-is, where-is with all faults and without any warranties, expressed or implied, and will be conveyed by an aircraft bill of sale similar to FAA AC Form 8050-2, OMB Control No. 2120-0042. Seller makes no representations or guarantees regarding the airplane’s condition. The purchaser takes the airplane free of the rights of the persons holding any equitable or legal interest in the airplane, whether or not recorded. Once the auction concludes, the high bid may not be withdrawn or rescinded. No refunds. Purchaser must remove the airplane from the Warrenton-Fauquier Airport by no later than 4:30 p.m. on Friday, February 27, 2026. To guarantee such timely removal, purchaser will be required to post a $2,000.00 cash bond with Fauquier County which shall be refunded to purchaser upon airplane’s timely removal. Failure to remove the airplane timely shall result in purchaser’s forfeiture of the bond and the commencement of legal proceedings to remove the airplane. The airplane is available for inspection at bidders’ risk and expense; said inspection costs are nonrefundable. Purchaser bears all costs of title searches and costs associated with transfer of ownership, including all transfer taxes. Purchaser is solely responsible for notifying the appropriate Federal Aviation Administration office of change in the registered owner of the airplane. For more information, contact: Mary Catherine Anderson, Esq. VSB# 68654; 10 Courthouse Square, First Floor, Warrenton, VA 20186; (540) 422-8193; mc.anderson.tr@fauquiercounty.gov..........

Username Protected · **Posted:** 31 Dec 2025, 17:00

Pricy and slow indeed. There is one being very slowly redone in the hangar at Atlantic ANE. one gines and props. All new hyd hoses and hard lines. Full electrical upgrade. Not sure how long or how much but it’s inside a hangar at Atlantic ANE that alone is crazy expensive.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 31 Dec 2025, 17:43

Username Protected wrote:

Pricy and slow indeed. There is one being very slowly redone in the hangar at Atlantic ANE. one gines and props. All new hyd hoses and hard lines. Full electrical upgrade. Not sure how long or how much but it’s inside a hangar at Atlantic ANE that alone is crazy expensive.

Didn't it get covered in fire foam?

1954 HU-16 Albatross Miss Splash - County Auction 30JAN2025