Darrel Starr
Registered User
Plymouth, MN
Time moves on and N18SY is going to a new home at BIMS in Iceland - a fitting place for a Super Cub, BIMS has a 1500ft grass runway. The new owner, Jamil Allansson owns part of the large hangar to the left side of the picture. He will re-register the plane as TF-USD.
Jamil is a successful businessman in Iceland, here in the front seat of an experimental 95 hp SC with his instructor.
Just before Jamil and his team arrived, N18SY was residing peacefully in our hangar at KANE, Anoka County Airport.
Jamil, his son Atli, their friend and mechanic Omar Bjarnason (a member here at SC.org) and an Icelandair pilot, Orri, arrived Thursday night. The container and crane arrived Friday. These guys know how to work and they had containerized other aircraft so they knew what they were doing too. Besides the airplane, they loaded 6 auto or truck engines, 2 transmissions, a set of car tires lots of used aircraft stuff from Wentworths, orders from Aircraft Spruce and Univair including SC spars and 4130 tubing.
Haffi, another Icelandair pilot joined them on Saturday so for part of the time there were 5 guys working on the project, staying overnight in our hangar and using not only my tools but also those brought over by Wayne Meier and Dan Carroll both members of SC.org.
Don't worry about the prop being vertical -- it was later turned off center.
Sunday evening after the loading was virtually complete, we had a hangar party bringing in 20 or so friends to meet the Iceland guys. They really are a great group of people who are great friends, aviation enthusiasts and work as a well oiled team.
I have to thank Dan Carroll (who owns a hangar near ours and is building a Javron PA-11/18 for being with them most of the time, taking them out to breakfast and driving them to the airport -- what a wonderful friend and neighbor. Also. a remarkable connection formed between the Icelanders and Dan. Fifty years ago, Dan was stationed for a year in Iceland while in the Navy. He flew several small rented planes around the island and he still has his log books with the TF numbers of those planes. By remarkable coincidence, Orri (one of the Icelandair pilots) later owned one of the planes Dan had rented way back.
Bob Eckstein, the amazing welder, IA and friend who helped me build N18SY and Larry Cassem, the IA and friend who has helped me maintain it for most of the last 8 years were at the party and got to meet Jamil -- important to close the loop. Only Bob Schefter, the guy who beautifully covered and painted N18SY wasn't able to make the trip down from Fergus Falls.
Vivian and I could not be happier about Jamil being the next owner (caretaker) of N18SY / TF-USD.
The container left Monday to be loaded on a CP train for Montreal, container ship to Rotterdam, then back to Iceland arriving sometime in August.
Jamil is a successful businessman in Iceland, here in the front seat of an experimental 95 hp SC with his instructor.
Just before Jamil and his team arrived, N18SY was residing peacefully in our hangar at KANE, Anoka County Airport.
Jamil, his son Atli, their friend and mechanic Omar Bjarnason (a member here at SC.org) and an Icelandair pilot, Orri, arrived Thursday night. The container and crane arrived Friday. These guys know how to work and they had containerized other aircraft so they knew what they were doing too. Besides the airplane, they loaded 6 auto or truck engines, 2 transmissions, a set of car tires lots of used aircraft stuff from Wentworths, orders from Aircraft Spruce and Univair including SC spars and 4130 tubing.
Haffi, another Icelandair pilot joined them on Saturday so for part of the time there were 5 guys working on the project, staying overnight in our hangar and using not only my tools but also those brought over by Wayne Meier and Dan Carroll both members of SC.org.
Don't worry about the prop being vertical -- it was later turned off center.
Sunday evening after the loading was virtually complete, we had a hangar party bringing in 20 or so friends to meet the Iceland guys. They really are a great group of people who are great friends, aviation enthusiasts and work as a well oiled team.
I have to thank Dan Carroll (who owns a hangar near ours and is building a Javron PA-11/18 for being with them most of the time, taking them out to breakfast and driving them to the airport -- what a wonderful friend and neighbor. Also. a remarkable connection formed between the Icelanders and Dan. Fifty years ago, Dan was stationed for a year in Iceland while in the Navy. He flew several small rented planes around the island and he still has his log books with the TF numbers of those planes. By remarkable coincidence, Orri (one of the Icelandair pilots) later owned one of the planes Dan had rented way back.
Bob Eckstein, the amazing welder, IA and friend who helped me build N18SY and Larry Cassem, the IA and friend who has helped me maintain it for most of the last 8 years were at the party and got to meet Jamil -- important to close the loop. Only Bob Schefter, the guy who beautifully covered and painted N18SY wasn't able to make the trip down from Fergus Falls.
Vivian and I could not be happier about Jamil being the next owner (caretaker) of N18SY / TF-USD.
The container left Monday to be loaded on a CP train for Montreal, container ship to Rotterdam, then back to Iceland arriving sometime in August.
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