Get yourself a piece of history with that US Airways Airbus A320-214 that Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger ditched in the Hudson a year ago. The remains of Flight 1549 are up for auction at Chartis Aviation Salvage. Once you've reattached the wings and cleaned it up a bit, it looks like it's in pretty good shape, albeit with "severe water damage throughout airframe," and "impact damage to the underside of aircraft."
You'd have trouble flying this crate (especially since they've stripped out the avionics and removed the engines), but it sure would make a spectacular museum piece, another airplane hotel, clubhouse, or writer's lair. We're thinking US Airways should just give this to Sully, setting it up in his backyard as a trophy of his extreme pilotude. Or maybe a zoo would buy it, filling it with Canada geese for a unique aviary exhibit.
Chartis, via CrunchGear
-- Story from and more pictures at DVICE
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