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Entire Military Demo Team
For Sale
By
October 9, 2021
If you’ve
ever dreamed of flying in an airshow, now’s your chance to own a complete
military air demonstration team, some assembly required. The Pickles
auction house in Australia will be selling off the surplus Pilatus PC-9
aircraft from the Royal Australian Air Force’s Roulettes starting Nov. 4.
The RAAF replaced the team’s 30-year-old PC-9s with the new PC-21 turboprop
trainer a couple of years ago and although the team flew a six-ship show, there
are 10 PC-9s on the block, all cheerfully decked out in their bright red and
white livery.
As might be
expected, none of the aircraft is ready for a hop around the patch. All were
disassembled for storage and will likely need substantial effort and paperwork
to get back in the air. They’ve also been flown hard and most have about 8,000
hours, albeit with the benefit of milspec maintenance. Once airworthy, the new
owner(s) will have a very capable tandem configuration single that looks
suspiciously like the U.S. Air Force’s Texan II, which is based on the PC-9 and
built under license by Textron. It is, of course, fully aerobatic, pressurized
and cruises at almost 300 knots.
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