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Junkyard Jets at Oakland Aviation Museum

By Janice Wood · June 5, 2012 ·

“Junkyard Jets” will be the featured topic at the Oakland Aviation Museum speaker series Saturday, June 16.

Speaker Doug Scroggins is the managing member and co-owner of ARC Aerospace Industries and Scroggins Aviation, both specializing in large commercial aircraft parts, salvage and recovery. Doug comes from the film and television entertainment field as a director and producer. His previous film productions include “Scrapping Aircraft Giants” aired on the Discovery Channel.

He will discuss the book, “Junkyard Jets,” which he co-authored and published in 2010. His talk will cover every step of the commercial aircraft recovery and salvage industry from airliner retirement and storage to dismantling and recycling. He will also cover the many uses of retired aircraft from airframes for testing to use in the movies.

For more information: OaklandAviationMuseum.org

 

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About Janice Wood

Janice Wood is editor of General Aviation News.

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