What is Rustbucket Air?

Rustbucket is my little FSPassengers airline. We fly anywhere, any time, any aircraft. Only catch is, Rustbucket is dirt poor. We would be operating on a shoestring budget, if we had a shoestring.

   All Rustbucket Aircraft are barely airworthy, having been "liberated" from a bone-yard or back lot somewhere. Held together with baling wire, duct tape and prayer, our motto is: We Try to Get You There.

    RustBucket is usually just one step ahead of the Law, seeing as how our aircraft can't pass inspection, operate with "borrowed" spare parts, and at one time or another have broken just about every FAA rule there is. But, We're CHEAP!!!

    Unable to afford to maintain a base of operations at a reputable airport, we are technically based out of an airfield that we have carved out of an island just off of Ketchikan Alaska. Gravel runway, a couple of surplus metal hangers having seen better days, and an office that we think from the smell was originally a trappers cabin abandoned for better quarters. Oh yeah, and the big camouflage net to cover the strip to keep the prying eyes of John Law away!

   Operating strictly by Internet, prospective clients contact us by email. We then arrange the pickup and delivery, and somehow make it happen. Usually. Passengers or Cargo, makes no difference to us, it's money!

   Currently our fleet consists of:

   1 DeHavilland Beaver amphib we "found" floating in a cove near Wrangell AK. No one around, it had to have been abandoned, right? We thought so.....

   1 Beech Baron 58 "rescued" out back of an aircraft paint shop in Louisville KY. Poor thing, it had a coat of primer applied, but then had been "forgotten". We think. It was out back of the shop anyway, next to the trash pile. We grabbed it in the dead of the night, and limped it home. Some day we might get around to finishing the paintjob, if we can ever make it to the hardware store for a couple cans of Krylon.

   A DC-3 "liberated' from the ramp in Renton WA. It was just sitting there, with the keys in it. The owner (we feel strongly there wasn't one) couldn't have wanted to keep it much if the keys were in it, right?

   And, our latest "acquisition", an Airbus A319. We call it the "Airbush"! Totally reworked with new (sorta) hydraulic boosters on the brakes, limiter bypasses on the thrust reversers give us full thrust in reverse, Turbo Nitrous injectors and "rehung" flaps that allow for greater lift at lower speeds, we can get this baby into (almost) anywhere you want to go! Take-offs and landings on our 1500 foot gravel runways have been no problem. Especially since we installed those chickenwire covers on the intakes to keep the gravel, leaves, limbs, and occasional bird out!

So, if you need a ride somewhere, or cargo delivered, give us a call! We'll make you an offer you can't (should if you had any sense) refuse!  We "might" even get you to your destination....