Wayne Newton's Plane Left To Gather Dust In A Michigan Airport

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2-04-2010 @ 6:25PM

Tim Haight said...

Waynes aircraft was the BEST F-28 in the world a few years ago, it was and probably still is the lowest time F-28 in the world. The maintenance was impecable up to the time I quit working for him. The problum is that it is to noisy to land at most US airports now, and due to the size of the aircraft it has to be maintained to the same standards as an airliner. Wayne just could not afford to do that. His decissions to hire people who were not top notch or met the requirments just was the iceing on the cake and killed a prefically good aircraft. I have flow over 3000 hrs in that aircraft and its a wonderful plane, safe, and as long as it is maintained, reliable. I would be more than willing to get it back on track for Wayne, but after sitting in Mich. in the snow and humidity, I am sure it is in pretty bad shape at this point. I would have hoped Wayne would have learned his lesson from his previous aircraft that was left to rot in Houston, but I guess not. I wish him and his plane the best.

2-04-2010 @ 7:50PM

Stan said...

Hey Tim,

You don't know me but I think you know my good friend Tim Lewis. I used to fly that airplane for Novel out of SLC before Wayne bought it. Novel sold it becuse they did not want to cough up the estimated 1 Mil. to do the C inspection.

Do you know why this plane was parked in a crappy place like it is , instead of a nice dry place like Vegas?

2-06-2010 @ 9:11AM

Scott said...

That A/C has been sitting at that airport for nearly 6 years. When the interior re-furbish was done he never paid. It sat for so long untill it went up for auction. Someone from his "camp" paid $50,000 on the bill and it sat for a little while longer. The maintenance part never got done due to him not paying for the interior bill. The company that did the interior and that was supposed to due the maintenance on the A/C is a top notch company for interior, maintenance and avionics. They are a certified repair station for Fokker f-28's. They have re-furbished many other high profile customer A/C. The engines on that A/C are timed out and the fuel bladders in the wings are rotted. I'm pretty sure that $700,000 he was paying was just for the full interior re-furbish. Maybe he should not have bought a Airplane that is so expensive to own.

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