November 2024: NASA wants to get rid of Fokker F.28 Fellowship, Beechcraft Starship, Bell AH-1 Cobra, etc.

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November 2024: NASA wants to get rid of Fokker F.28 Fellowship, Beechcraft Starship, Bell AH-1 Cobra, etc.

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....see
https://dcnewsroom.blogspot.com/2024/10 ... es-of.html
This website has photos/pictures.

Information was apparently taken from
https://sam.gov/opp/7b5ec2dd7d9049d885e ... fad5e/view
See the PDF-links.
STATEMENT OF WORK
1.0 Introduction/Background: This is a service contract to procure services to demolish several
aircraft and other test articles left abandoned at various sites throughout the NASA Langley
facility.
2.0 Scope of Work: Service contract to demolish and remove several aircraft and test articles,
removing them completely from NASA Langley. Demolition of aircraft shall damage all aircraft
components to an extent that they cannot be utilized for spare parts.
3.0 Objectives: To clean up research facility and open spaces at NASA Langley
4.0 Description of the Work/Contractor Tasks: The contractor shall provide all demolish and
remove all the nine (9) aircraft and test articles listed below. Every listed article shall be removed
completely from NASA Langley. All the aircraft listed shall be intentionally damaged during
demolition so that no parts may be reused. The contractor may choose to recycle the scrap metal
from all the articles if they so wish.
The articles to be demolished are as follows:
• At the Landing and Impact Research facility (building 1297, also known as the gantry):
1. A Beechcraft Starship fuselage approximately 40 ft long located under the tent as
shown in Figure 1
2. The “System of Struts” test article located under the tent as shown in Figure 2
3. A crashed Bell AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter that is approximately 44 ft long as
shown in Figure 3
4. A crashed Fokker F-28 aircraft that is approximately 90 ft long as shown in
Figure 4
5. Pile of miscellaneous metal structures including landing gear, aircraft wings, and
a 30 ft section of fuselage as shown in Figure 5
• At the firehouse (building 1238)
6. A crashed Cessna 172 that is approximately 27 ft long as shown in Figure 6
• Behind the model shop (building 1238B)
7. Approximately 10 ft of the tail of a helicopter, as shown n Figure 7
• In the laydown yard between buildings 1244 and 1245
8. A large carbon steel test stand approximately 16 x 16 x 24 ft as shown in Figure 8
• Beside the hangar (building 1244)
9. An inoperable HU-25 aircraft that is approximately 55 ft long as shown in Figure
9
All the aircraft have been drained of fluids and hazardous materials.
December 2024 updates at FokkerNews.nl....
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