Jump AC for a demo in KY

[dninness 4]

I normally wouldn't post this on DZ.com, but I'm down to some serious "tree shaking" at the moment. :) Maybe someone knows of someone who has a plane, etc...

I'm putting together a demo jump for the Army Cadet organization I belong to, a very simple flag jump into the activation ceremony of our new HQ & cadet training center in Millersburg, KY, for the end of the week. Already filed the 7711-2 with the FSDO, have the certificate of authorization, scoped out the DZ, etc. (the actual ceremony is in a very tight area surrounded by wires & buildings, so the flag jump will really be more of a a "flyby" with a landing in the sports field adjacent to the ceremony area. The flagpole area is more of a Golden Knights-style demo spot, definitely -not- my skill level)

As seems to always be the case, the airplane is what trips us up.

We started looking for someone who could fly this demo back in Feb, but I didn't contact the local DZs since I was trying to be a little cost conscious (the organization is a 501(c)3 non-profit, and we're in the middle of refurbishing the cadet training center in preparation for our summer training events, so as you can imagine, money is an object..). We had a gent who was willing to fly us, but his plane turned out to be "less than suitable" for a jump, and he's been unable to find a plane we can use.

So faced with the loss of the plane, I reached out to both of the DZs in the area. They have both gotten back to me and we've had a couple emails back and forth on the subject. One DZ sent me their demo pricelist and based on ferry time & the time for the jump op, its going to be way too expensive for us. I'm still waiting to hear from the other DZ as to whether or not they can help us out.

The DZs are both doing what they can to help us out, but at the end of the day, they have jumpers, tandem revenue, etc, and they can only go so far to "give us a break" and take their plane away in the middle of a busy Saturday. Totally understood and absolutely no ding on either of these DZs. Given the opportunity to make, say, $1000 in guaranteed tandem revenue, or $700 flying a demo, I'd opt for the customer standing at my manifest counter, too.

So my question is: does anybody know of a jump plane in Northern KY/Southern OH that might be available for a demo on Saturday morning? I'm talking "My buddy bought this plane, never uses it as a jump plane, but its got a jump door" variety, something like that.

We still have some irons in the fire (the original pilot, for example, is/was doing some looking for us, and I haven't heard back from him yet on where that might be at), but I'm running up against my Certificate of Authorization's requirement to file the NOTAM by Friday morning, plus I have to let the FSDO know this week who is flying and what plane we're using.

Our approximate budget on this is something less than $500 . 1 pass, 1 jumper. That's it. If someone would be amenable to a certificate of donation to offset, that would be groovy too!

Thanks for any help.

NIN
D-19617, AFF-I '19