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Saturday, February 26, 2000
Millionaire wants two tilt-rotor aircraft
Amarillo's Stanley Marsh 3 says that he's placed an order for $8 million BA-609s
Associated Press
AMARILLO - Eccentric Amarillo millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 says he's placed an order for the world's first civilian tilt-rotor aircraft, which is designed to fly either vertically like a helicopter or forward like an airplane.
That'll be his and her models, please.
"I told them that I would take two to put in my backyard," Marsh said Friday. "One for my wife and one for me. I would have Gucci finish my wife's and I will paint mine to look like the purple people eater."
He's joking, right?
Could be, but Marsh is pretty serious about the idea and many in Amarillo have come to realize that his far-flung ideas often become reality.
Marsh is best known for burying 10 Cadillacs nose down in a Panhandle wheat field along Interstate 30. He calls the artwork the "Cadillac Ranch."
Bell Helicopter Textron and Agusta Aerospace Co., are developing the aircraft in Fort Worth and putting it together in Amarillo, said Bell spokesman Bill Leder.
The first three years of production of the BA-609, which costs between $8 and $10 million, already are sold out, he said.
Leder said he doubts Marsh actually placed an order for the aircraft, but would have to check with the company's salesmen who were in Singapore on business.
Marsh says the BA-609 would be a great addition to his art collection and a lot of fun. He admits his order may have been placed in fun as well.
If he is able to purchase the aircraft, Marsh says the great thing about them is he doesn't need a runway and he can sneak up on people.
"I'd hide up in a cloud and then dive down and go after some cowboys out drinking beer or young lovers," he said.
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