I bought a Plane for $5,000 - And it almost killed me...

So I bought this plane for $5k and it just about killed me.
The story on this old bird is it was abandoned at Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska. It sat there for years after the company using it to haul fuel and freight around Alaska went out of business.

After years of no one paying the tie-down fees for it, the airport wanted it gone and gave it to the Aviation Museum. The museum in Anchorage was like "oh great, another project, no thanks" and they auctioned it off to raise a bit of money for the Museum. Susan from Everts Air Cargo was in a buying mood and paid $7k for it, with the catch she had to get the thing moved out of there ASAP.
The lovely hot potato airplane then got towed over to the Everts Air Cargo ramp to get it out of where it was rotting away. Unfortunately, ramp space is at quite a premium around airports and a 108ft wide airplane that doesn't fly is not making anyone any $$$. After posting it on Facebook Marketplace with no takers (because the big catch is you have to disassemble it to get it out of there), we ended up with it for $5k and had to get it off the airport ASAP.

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