What some people do......

[SCEPTER]

Criusing through Nevada can lead to some interesting finds..

does someone know the rest of the story.....

[Victor Archer]

Re: What some people do......

Couldn't find much...

"This old Beech N6065V serves as a gate guard to a brothel in Beatty, NV. At the north end of Beatty there is a road branching off Highway 95, heading west. Next to the road this wreck survives (at least current March 2005).
More pics can be found at:

https://www.lazygranch.com/a51misc1.htm

Other photos of the hulk (and some scuttlebutt on the crash):

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=63366

https://www.miniquest.com/trips/titu...s/dscn0460.jpg "

11649 (c/n AF-206) to civil registry as a BE-18 C-45G) in 1958 as N6065V. Crashed while attempting a landing at Angel's Ranch, a brothel in Beatty, NV. May 28, 1977. The wreck is still there in the parking lot.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=46759&key=0

"It is C-45G AF-206 ex 51-11649. Besides the obvious interesting aspects to its crash landing there is this story from the Twin Beech Bulletin Sept 1998 as told by Russ Sharpe":
"Russ Sharpe, Oakdale,CA is restoring TC-45G, ex N7212C, AF-75 and had trouble locating a low pressure electric fuel booster pump to install in the wing of his 18. He looked, he called, he put the word out, all with no results.
Finally he resorted to locating derelict C-45’s in hopes of finding the elusive part. Friend Bruce Boese knew of a interesting possibility and so they set out in Bruce’s D18S, N649B for Beatty, Nevada where C-45G, N6065V sat on its belly alongside U.S. Route 95 earning its keep by attracting customers to a nearby legalized brothel. On May 28, 1977, it had been dropping jumpers at a meet at the brothel when it was damaged beyond repair in a landing accident.
Twenty-one years ago the aviation insurance company had taken the engines and instruments but Russ was hopeful that a small pump might still be hidden inside of a wing. He secured permission at the establishment to investigate and began to burrow his way into the sand in order to get access to the appropriate inspection panel on the underside of a wing. With Bruce fighting off the sagebrush and passing the tools, Russ was finally able to detach the pumps from inside each wing. The cost? Twenty dollars and a day’s scenic trip into the desert."

[supercub]

Re: What some people do......

And 8 years later, Russ's 18 is still sitting on the ramp at Oakdale. Heard rumors it might be for sale......but don't know.

[T. Adams]

Re: What some people do......

Now tell me, did you stop because of the plane, or the brothel??

[AAFO_WSagar]

Re: What some people do......

Now tell me, did you stop because of the plane, or the brothel??

[SCEPTER]

Re: What some people do......

Now tell me, did you stop because of the plane, or the brothel??

uhhhhhhh....ya.

My wife don't let me go to house's of ill repute.She was the one who took the pics.She felt very uncomfortable just being there.The dudes going in that place were scary looking.I can't imagine what the women looked like.