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Welcome
to the fabrication & restoration project of this former
ex-American Airlines
Boeing B-767-223, N301AA (301) cockpit
section. Scroggins Aviation with
the assistance of American Museum of
Aviation are seeking donations and spare parts to help
complete this project. If you can help
send us an email (email
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the
restoration On
February 23, 2010 the fabrication & restoration project of this former
ex-American Airlines
Boeing B-767-223, N301AA (301) cockpit
section has begun. In Victorville,
California Scroggins Aviation heading the
project with the assistance of other companies
will help bring this cockpit to its former glory
days with the airline. Below is a
series of images showing the project in
progress.
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MORE TO
COME
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the
beginning
Between
the latter part of June and September of 2005, the first
two of four former American Airlines Boeing
767-223s were dismantled at Roswell, New Mexico,
USA. Seven 767s were sold in June by American to
CSDS
Aviation for spares. The airplanes were the
initial 767s delivered to American and include
the airline’s first, N301AA (the eighth 767
built), first flown on October 6, 1982, and
delivered on November 4th. Fleet No 301 operated
its final revenue flight on January 30th, 2003,
from New York-JFK to Los Angeles as AA601. The
following day it was ferried as AAL9652 to Fort
Worth Alliance Airport, Texas, and parked with
65,795 hours and 18,793 cycles in its logbook. A
few weeks later N301AA was flown to Roswell for
storage, the first of many American 767s
including (302,
303, 304, 305, 306 and 307 which were also
dismantled).
OWNERSHIP HISTORY:
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Shown
here on a gloomy day in June 2005 is a fleet of
retired ex-American 767s at Roswell, NM., in this shot
301 is posing up front. (by
Doug Scroggins / SA)
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301
is pushed off its shoring to the ground
where the first stage of demolishing
begins.
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A
Scroggins Aviation
worker is shown here cutting off the cockpit
from the main fuselage section on September 12th 2005.
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Above
shows how 301 looks today on the inside.
Only gauges, control heads and windows are
required to complete the project, along
with some tender loving care (TLC)
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A
four sectional scale diorama models of 301 are being fabricated
from scratch. The first one will illustrate
301 in her glory days with American and the
second illustrating what the plane looked
like after being dismantled. the third illustrates
how the plane look while being demoed and
the forth will show where the scrap
material ends up and what is makes from
the scrap metal. The diorama will be displayed with the cockpit to show
how an aircraft is utilized, recycled and reborn
to be used in an educational way.
CLICK HERE
TO SCALE MODEL LINK
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On
behalf of Scroggins Aviation and
American Museum of Aviation would like to say thank you to those
that helped with this project and provide
support, parts and supplies:
Bill
Bradshaw; Doug Scroggins; Tom Flynn; Rhonda Scroggins; Jim Scroggins;
Woody Pomeroy; Nicholas Veronico; David Worth;
Lee Williams; Allan Radeki; Benny Bentetz; Brian
Cooper; Roark Cooper; Chris Sloan; John Wegg;
Kevin Ward; Jim Doyle; Robert Esqueda; Joe
Flaugher. more to come
ARC
Aerospace Indus.; Aircraft
Recycling Corp; Leading Edge; Mojave Basin Youth Corps; Mojave Air
& Space port; Airway Magazine;
JunkyardJets.net. more to come |
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