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Post by kiwiruna on Jul 5, 2020 14:07:58 GMT 12
Hi All, This is a real newby question. But I'm curious. Assume I've won lotto and want to own a warbird after much searching I've found a wreck which can be recovered and rebuilt. What is the process please? who owns the wreck? etc and no I haven't won lotto so this purely a hypothetical question. Thanks 
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jul 5, 2020 18:14:41 GMT 12
It depends on the aircraft. All US Navy aircraft are still owned by the US Navy for example, who 99.9% of the time refuse permission to recover anything.
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Post by madmac on Jul 5, 2020 18:16:46 GMT 12
Would you want to show it to anybody, there is a story about an Ozzie with a helicopter!!!
Military or Civilian, For the later ownership would be most likely be with the insurance company, the former the owner ship would most likely remain with the military, unless you are in the islands.
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Post by tbf25o4 on Jul 6, 2020 10:28:21 GMT 12
You haven't said where the wreck may be located or if it is an RNZAF machine. If it is an RNZAF aircraft then ownership still resides with the Crown (i.e NZ Defence Force) Any attempt to remove parts would have to be approved by them before beginning. If there was a death associated with the wreck at the site then it can be still classified as a war grave and that is another restriction.
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Post by kiwiruna on Jul 6, 2020 19:59:03 GMT 12
Hi again all. Thanks for the replies,it's one of those questions that has been bugging me for a while, How do you own a WW2 era WB ? so I thought I'd just ask, there no such thing as a silly question right? Now come on BIG lotto win...
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Post by agile on Jul 6, 2020 23:22:13 GMT 12
Look over in the John Smith thread. For a very reasonable 20k you could have a Vampire project (some assembly required). WW2 era, definitely quicker and easier and probably cheaper than a wreck recovery, and it's not a heap of mangled wreckage.
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Post by markrogers on Jul 12, 2020 15:21:58 GMT 12
Well there is still a PV-1 (Talasea) and a Corsair (somewhere else), both still owned by the Crown in the islands just waiting to be recovered one day...the local people there would need a gift of some kind and goodwill as the airframes are on their land!
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Post by shorty on Jul 12, 2020 16:06:53 GMT 12
The items we got from PNG entailed finding out who had bought the salvage rights to the area, negotiating with them, and then whose tribe owned the land where the wreck was and then paying them rent for the area the aircraft occupied and then paying for the wreck itself. This was prior to PNG gaining independence.Now you would probably need permission from a cultural and historical goverment department
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Post by l29 on Jul 12, 2020 20:06:50 GMT 12
Look over in the John Smith thread. For a very reasonable 20k you could have a Vampire project (some assembly required). WW2 era, definitely quicker and easier and probably cheaper than a wreck recovery, and it's not a heap of mangled wreckage. For 20k you can get a complete vampire that dosnt need a quarter of the work they do! |
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