Yeti
Those had nothing to do with Sandline. The two Cessnas with two spare engines, and the one Hughes 500 (ex confiscated drug run aircraft, I think) had been a gift from the U.S. Government before 2000, but never put together and left in the containers on the edge of the parade ground at the Police Barracks at Rove. The unlocked containers rotted in the open over the years, and the aircraft inside were vandalised by kids watching the football when the parade ground was used as a soccer pitch. Only one ex-U.S.A.F. Cessna O2A (?) (337) would have been capable of being restored, but being an ex military aircraft, and with lost log books, would have had to have been operated by a Government department. At the time of the move of the containers to Henderson, the responsibility was given to the D.C.A., some aviation technical people were prepared to give time for that, but due 'lack of funds' nothing became of it.
If they are not around still, then someone would have pocketed some money at government expense..
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