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boggy

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    Jabiru LSA
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  1. Hi, I was looking at buying an aircraft with a Rospeller 2 blade inflight adjustable (damaged).The aircraft was a certified ultralight ie: non LSA and enquiries made with Rospeller concluded that these props are no longer manufactured. If you have one on your aircraft it can still be overhauled/serviced but you would have to freight it and at considerable expense. I hope this helps.
  2. Here's the article, without photos, if I'm allowed to post it. A former World War II airstrip and one of just a handful of operational airports in Sydney is being readied for sale for the first time in 44 years Now a privately owned aerodrome, the Oaks airport, which is about 80 kilometres south-west of the Sydney CBD, had been farmland until it was taken over by the RAAF and their Americans counterparts in 1942 and used as an air base during the war. The land was returned to the farmer after the war but the aerodrome was leased and in 1975 flight engineer Grahame Onus bought the 40 hectare property with his business partner to keep Marshall Airways, a business involved in restoring and maintaining planes, up and running. It was a venture started by one of Australia's pioneer pilots, Sid Marshall, the first person to fly between Papua New Guinea and Australia in 1934. “I don’t want to sell but I’m turning 73 next month and I’d rather sell it as an outright sale to someone so they’ve got free reign to do what they and the council and the heritage people want done … and there are so many things that can be done to that place,” Mr Onus said. "It's really a unique place but I don't have the money and I'm too old. If I was 50 and had the money I'd throw it all into it." Mr Onus has aviation in his blood. When he was five he started flying model planes and as a boy his uncle would take him crop-dusting in a Tiger Moth near Mudgee. "When I was a teenager, I would go to Bankstown Airport and fly around in Sid's Douglas DC-2. There were only a few of them made, and then I used to fly around in his Lockheed 10B, and eventually I went on to own both of these aeroplanes," Mr Onus said. The aerodrome has two parallel grass runways about 900 metres long and a shorter perpendicular one that runs east to west and currently hosts about 200 flights a day. The entire property is heritage listed but the "heritage item" is the historic runway. It's understood that to unlock the development potential of the land, an improvement would need to be made to the airstrip. Based on recent sales in the area, it's believed the property could sell for more than $10 million. Significant upside “We are expecting a wide range of interest from local and offshore developers, land bankers, private high net worth families, aviation operators and logistics companies," Savills' NSW director of metropolitan and regional sales Tom Tuxworth said. Nick Lower, Savills' director of metropolitan and regional sales, said that while a sale ‘‘as-is’’ was possible there was also significant upside for an industrial or residential development, particularly given its proximity to the new Badgery’s Creek Airport. “Land values across Western Sydney are continuing to accelerate, driven largely by significant levels of demand, a shortage of available serviced land and a lack of investment stock being brought to market,” Mr Lower said. In Melbourne there's the success story of a moribund airport at Essendon Fields, 11 kilometres from the CBD, which many people expected would close down, but which was brought back to life by Rich Listers Lindsay Fox and Max Beck. They paid $22 million for the 99-year lease at Essendon Fields in 1998, which then had a working population of 400. It has a working population of 7500 and is benefiting from the growing population in Melbourne's north-west. It now also functions as a business park, with a DFO shopping centre, offices, supermarkets and a Hyatt Place hotel around the airfield. Cheers Boggy
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