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Dodson Keeps Business Aviation Flying

Fuselages are harvested in Kansas pastures

remnants fo Avantair fleet at Dobson — Remnants of Avantair fleet at Dodson International in Rantoul, Kansas. © Mark Huber/AIN

By Mark Huber • Contributor

August 31, 2024

On March 5, 2015, actor/pilot Harrison Ford crashed his vintage Ryan ST-3KR monoplane onto a Venice, California golf course following an engine failure. Eventually, the wreckage ended up in the boneyard at Dodson International in Rantoul, Kansas.

Dodson buys and sells used aircraft parts. That includes accident aircraft, those that are no longer airworthy, or others that are worth more parked and parted out. Most were owned by people or entities you’ve never heard of, but there are a few notable exceptions: the late actor John Wayne’s Jet Commander, a Jetstream 31 turboprop once owned by Nascar racing legend Richard Petty, a Gulfstream GIII formerly belonging to Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, the Piper Meridian that disgraced financier Marcus Schrenker parachuted from in an attempt to fake his own death in 2009, four Piaggio Avantis from the defunct Avantair, and a Hawker 4000 from that aircraft’s flight test program.

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