The auction is the product of a long legal battle. For years, salvage operator Harold Sheppard Jr. stored aircraft on leased airport land but failed to pay rent. The county filed a lien, the dispute went all the way to the Wyoming Supreme Court, and earlier this year the justices cleared the way for the county to take ownership. With that ruling, the airport finally had the green light to sell the hulks, recovering some costs and clearing space on its property.
The lineup includes multiple Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars, Cold War–era twin-boom transports that later became tankers; three Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighters, classic piston-engine tankers derived from the C-97 and Stratocruiser family; and two Lockheed P2V-7 Neptunes, the maritime patrol planes that once patrolled oceans before being pressed into fire service. Other lots feature hulking fuselages of C-130B Hercules transports, Fairchild C-82 Packets, Martin 4-0-4 airliners, and Douglas C-54 Skymasters
the auction is on https://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/bighornco,wy/list/current?orgid=948930
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