Argosy parts needed…

I know the guy who ran the Argosy before stripping the parts off. You need to add four gearboxes to your shopping list, along with all the ancillaries; gennys, alternators, compressors, hydraulic pumps, tach gennys and sync motors.

The Darts fitted were 526’s.

Best bet is speak to Henry Hyde at Trygon Limited – Southend.

Other mods (apart from the obvious windows) include removing the rear hatch & installing stairs on the port side instead. Hatch in the cockpit roof was also filled in so the only access to the top surface of the aircraft is with a ladder…altho there is no shortage of new hatches in the side of the fuselage.

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Stairs are opposite this hatch

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The bedroom on top of the bomb bay. As you can see the bomb bay roof was lowered to accomodate the bed etc. Top of it would nornal;ly be level with the top of the green panel to the left.
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& Garth, The Airport WonderMutt. As you can see the entire interior has been trimmed out in some hideous fake bamboo/grass crap.

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Fantastic to see the rescue efforts, good luck with it! I have a soft spot for the Argosy and would love to see one fly again.

I’ve got some space!

If you go on the AeroWeb site under the museum you will find the details of the engineer who looked after her for the last ten years of her flying life .

Regards the C-119 -she was the third in U.S military service -be nice if she found a home somewhere !

I took a liking to this. 4WD & 4wheel steering Coleman tug 🙂

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Correction: Had a butchers inside after the tail feathers came off today. It’s not an air tank behind the crapper (as I was informed) It’s an oxygen tank, one of the big ones similar in size to welding tanks etc.
Assume that was to keep Mr Hughes happy.

And this is what happens when you roll over a piece of 1/4in steel plate with a KC-97… 🙂

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Blimey, I would love to see an Argosy fly again!

Quick google reveals a few people claiming to offer Darts.

http://www.combustionstore.co.uk/cs/supply_of_aero_engines.html

http://iapgroup.com.au/services-2/aircraft-engines/

http://www.salvex.com/listings/listing_detail.cfm?aucID=182956529

Good luck, an please keep us posted with progress. Would love to see this Argosy saved.

ZRX61. Thank you Sir, and best of luck with it. The Mitchell mods sound interesting!!

If you go on the AeroWeb site under the museum you will find the details of the engineer who looked after her for the last ten years of her flying life .

Regards the C-119 -she was the third in U.S military service -be nice if she found a home somewhere !

Sounds good! What’s the plan?

The museum went **** up last month. After years of not paying rent, not filing their 501c3 charity tax paperwork & using the hangar for their own personal aircraft They were given 10 days notice that preceded a 14 days to vacate order.
The plan is the Argosy will fly out if the parts can be found. The B25 is being dismantled for shipping & the KC-97 is going to fly out too. The only thing that may look like it gets scrapped is the C119. Everything else has been moved to another location. Have to evict a few owls…. at least one in the -97 (starboard inner) & possibly two in the Argosy, one of which had set up home in the right gear bay/nacelle.
-97 did in fact move briefly on Thursday, about 12-15ft before the ramp gave way under it. I shall be wearing my Chief Blagger hat tomorrow in an attempt to borrow a few 8x4ft 1in steel plates & find a tug big enough to move the ******.
B25 is in a lot better condition than first appearances. It’s been modified so it now has 4 bomb bay doors…1 on the right & 3 on the left. Plus there’s a bathroom at the back etc & a huge air tank back behind that.

Guys

Just a thought but didn’t the Viscount have the same engines as the Argosy and if so were the props the same?

Freebird :very_drunk:

SAFE Air disposed of both Argosies and all parts when flying operations ceased around 1990. The two ex SAFE Air airframes still survive but are no longer in SAFE ownership and neither has complete engines.

I think SAFE air in New Zealand are your only bet for these items.

You could also ask these people if they have a few over…
http://www.aels.nl/

Hi
Darts
http://iapgroup.com.au/services-2/aircraft-engines/
cheers
jerry

Another USA based Argosy is XR143 at Sioux City. www.midamericaairmuseum.org/about.html Maybe they can help ?
Sadly G-AOZZ which was scrapped by the Yankee Air Museum in 2013. Its a long shot but I don’t suppose anything of use was saved ?
Beware the link shows the sad scrapping of the prototype AW650 Argosy. www.argosyair.co.uk/remain.html

4 RR Darts & 4 props (with paperwork) & elevators.

Plan is to fly the crate out of where it’s parked… (So Cal)

Sounds good! What’s the plan?

http://www.aviation-history.com/armstrong-whitworth/aw650.htm

Argosy XP447. Potted history for Argosies here. Not being in the know, how common are RR Darts in the present world?

It still survives at Fox Field then?

Tim