transportation: go back to the sea and return to China
the transportation of the big plane has become a difficult problem since it is not mailed.
Tian Xiaokai introduced, generally speaking, for the newly decommissioned aircraft, the other party can send three crew members directly to Sichuan Guanghan, "but this involves customs, airspace applications, and so on, very troublesome... It's impossible for a UFO to fly to Guanghan like this. Finally, it was assessed because the program was cumbersome and costly. The second option of
is that after dismemberment, the aircraft is transported from Florida to Arizona by container and then transported to China through water transportation. "On the transport issue, negotiations between the two sides have encountered difficulties, and sellers can not provide exact procedures." According to reports, Robert Luke had also sold a retired passenger aircraft to Korea's customers, but also dismembered the aircraft after transport.
but for the team led by Zou Yuanbin, this is the first time to deal with foreigners. "To a certain extent, the other party needs to pay a certain amount of money as a deposit. We don't feel very reliable."
in view of the lack of security, after a meeting of the company, the company decided to entrust an air technology company in Beijing for import and export trade to negotiate with the seller, and then signed a contract for procurement, dismantling, transportation and installation.
"as we settled the price, the company, like a express company, was responsible for transportation, maintenance and transformation and shipped it back to Guanghan and delivered to our company." Zou Yuanbin introduced it.
because the volume is too large, the aircraft is loaded into 16 containers after unloading. "It took at least 1 weeks to dismantle the aircraft." An introduction of an employee involved in the negotiation.
9 26, the dismembered "aircraft" from Arizona, United States, arrived at the port of Shanghai in October 22nd. After a short stay in the ship, the ship was installed on 8 large trailers and 8 towing trailers were pulled to Beijing for assembly.
assembly: the rivets are all more than 20 thousand
10 month 25 aircraft parts shipped to Beijing. Subsequently, a team of more than 10 people in Beijing quickly started and had been busy assembling and reconstructing the aircraft.
it is understood that the aircraft rivet is more than 20 thousand pieces, tens of thousands of pieces of large and small parts. "We will make it a piece of work." The head of the team, who is responsible for the assembly of the aircraft, said that part of the parts had been damaged to varying degrees in the dismantling process and part of the parts needed additional customization, which would take more than 2 months to complete the complete assembly and completion of the aircraft.
according to the plan, on the 15 th of this month, the nose part of the aircraft will be transported back to Guanghan to install the simulated flight system, and the fuselage and wing parts will also arrive in Guanghan.
for this, Zou Yuanbin worked out an account. The cost of buying aircraft was about 3000000, but the cost of dismantling, transporting, assembling and transforming the aircraft costs about 4000000, and does not include the installation costs of the about 1000000 flight simulation system. "The cost of transport assembly is higher than that of aircraft purchase."
according to the contract signed by Zou Yuanbin and Beijing, Mr. Ning's collection of the 737-300 airliner airfoil is 28.9 meters, the length of the fuselage is 33.4 meters, the height is 4.01 meters, and it weighs about 45 tons.
according to Robert Luke, the seller's negotiator, the aircraft came out of the factory in 1973,
17714 hours of service, which had been used as the airforce navigation training machine, and the
engine model was JT8D-9 model engine.
Boeing 737 is a series of short haul airliner produced by Boeing company in the United States. It is the longest and most deliverable aircraft in the world's civil aviation aircraft. It has also been used as a special aircraft of some heads of state. According to the Legal Evening News, the Korean President's special plane includes two CASAC-235, one Boeing 737-300 and one Boeing 747-400, which is rented by Korean Airline.
"I want to make it a piece of work, not only to realize my own dream of flying, but also to make more people understand the culture of aviation, to realize his dream of flying, and to give a better platform for all the young people who have dreams." Mr. Ning said that the aircraft will be open to the public, especially young people, after they arrive in Guanghan.
who is the collector?
cost about 8000000 to buy a decommissioning Boeing 737 collection, and the capricious collector has also become a concern. But the low-key Mr. Ning declined the introduction of personal information, and the interviews were done through secretaries. Therefore, it is only known that Mr. Ning graduated from the CAAC college in 2009. After graduation, he has been engaged in the air management industry for more than a year and resigned in 2011 and began his career.
Mr. Ning's secretary, Zou Yuanbin, said that Mr. Ning is currently engaged in investment and development in real estate, and has been very obsessed with the aircraft, and later in the flight school, so there are special feelings for aircraft and flight. Now that you have a certain economic foundation, start doing something you like. "A long time ago, when he watched the news, he heard that he could buy a retired aircraft collection, so that thought, and then began to put it into practice and turn the dream into reality."