Check out the photo in “Heli-Expo 2017: Black Hawks flooding the market” of a Blackhawk helicopter with cow-themed paint. From the article:
According to Parsons, there is likely to be around 800 UH-60s to be divested by the US Army with the A models the first to go, followed by the Lima models. At the moment four UH-60As are being auctioned per month. … Since 2014, commercial operators have acquired approximately 140 UH-60A aircraft at auction from the General Services Administration.
I want one! Do you have an estimate of how high you have to go to win?
Costs per hour? Maintenance and insurance costs?
How a private individual can spend huge amounts of money lifting insanely large engines with no purpose at all.
@Steve: Conklin & deDecker says variable operating cost is $3300/hr, so about as much as a Gulfstream G450. Let me know how that goes 🙂
FYI, AGM-114 Hellfire is not in the default configuration and costs extra.
There was a private blackhawk doing some of the initial emergency repair work at Oroville Dam:
Gorgeous paint job!
http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/water-and-drought/article132585774.html
The shephard article cuts off after the first sentence without a registration/subscription… I was just looking to get a ballpark cost estimate.
I think I’d be safer driving a drone.
Pretty sure that’s an orca pattern, but same effect really.