No matter the reason for their abandonment, many of these hidden wrecks can be visited by anyone with a will to traverse a little wild terrain. "Peter C. Hill elaborated on N9995F's position, with help from Google Earth (may 2017) :This was shared on Facebook as CG-OOY, the Kenting titles are obvious but the registration incorrect.Dave Brosha seems to have photos of this aircraft too in his Arctic folder Also visible in Google Earth/Maps at 74.67265N 94.5879WPeter C. Hill sent me this in May 2017 on the location of the F.27 CF-CPA is Lodestar c/n 18-2177 and the subject of serious intentions to recover it. Here is one he would like to know more about...Here is Jack Lamb's book, the story of flying in the great white north:Note that Lambair operated four Bristol Freighters in all, as follows, but the Lambair website gives no further details:Mike Charters wrote me in Dec.2007 and sent me the following photo:The no. Clifford Fenner interview. TWA Flight 260 left Albuquerque on a short trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 19, 1955, but quickly came crashing down into the nearby Sandia Hills.
Those with aircraft preservation at heart will understand the drama when an attempt to recover B-29 "Kee Bird" went awfully wrong in the summer of 1995...Alas, my understanding of French is poor and thus the text of no help.In Feb.2017 Bob wrote me: "About those two you previously showed 'sans' registration (Cessna 180 - Peterson's Air Service CF-LCA) and the Beaver (Connelly-Dawson Airways CF-GYK). Seems like a veritable Curtiss Commando scrapyard up there in Manitoba..! Initially, the accident was thought to be caused by pilot error, but the true reasons for the crash are unknown. "This Lockheed 18 Lodestar was one of those slated to join the Dutch East Indies Air Force in Java in 1940 where it was to have been given the serial number LT-926. The Army Air Corps never used the plane and released it to Canadian Pacific Air Lines in the early 1940s...." MORE: The photo was taken by 'scudrunner' who tells his tales on the AvCanada forum.
A large panel from the plane now sits next to a plaque in what is known colloquially as “TWA Canyon.”Not all airplane wrecks are hard to get to because they are in some far-flung wilderness spot.
""09Aug1961 - "This day Lyall LaLonde (FOX Sector Mechanic) was working at DEWLine Site 29, CAM-F Among the passengers that day was André LaBelle, the Sector Electrician.
That's another story! In aug.2015 I received following request (on which I had no information to offer:An item on Facebook (Feb.2016) quoted a link to the Derrick replied me: "Happy to provide these images for your website!" That summer we took accident investigators to a tragic accident when 2 Canso water bombers collided not that far from Fort Smith near a lake; possibly it was near Pilot Lake, just north along a river and another lake... A great number of planes can be found beneath the waves of the ocean, often attracting scuba divers. "Dirk Septer wrote (20Jan2018) as a reaction on the Wordpress article: "One summer flying into the Firth River strip, the pilot pointed out this DC-3 to me and gave me a lat and long of it. Aad van de Voet provided the following details: "This is Bristol 170 Freighter Mk.31 CF-TFZ, c/n 13139, which was flying for Pacific Western Airlines at the time.
He had passed over town heading south, but turned back due to the darkness. The co-pilot called for a right turn, but for some reason, the plane went left. While the exact origins of the twisted metal is unclear, there is graffiti scratched into it that dates itself back to 1971, so it’s at least a few decades old.We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the world’s hidden wonders.
As the starboard wing was on the ground and the passenger door was on the port side it was a fair drop to the ground. Just out of sight of the planes still using the busy tarmacs of Belfast International Airport in Northern Ireland lies one of the most forlorn plane wrecks in the United Kingdom. Many wrecks are purposefully sunk to create diving features, but the remains of this Vought F4U Corsair actually went down during a routine mission in 1948. The crew feathered the propeller but the (overloaded) aircraft descended into trees and came to a halt in deep snow.The Curtiss freighter was on a night-time VFR approach to Pelly Bay when the left wing struck rising terrain at 1000 feet msl. According to reports, the co-pilot shouted, “Come right! A little known pile of scraps and plaques mark the grave of a downed RAF bomber. It crashed there on 30 May 1956, only two months after PWA had acquired it..." Sean Barry zoomed past and sent me these photos, which I believe were taken in Feb.2007 I would like to ask if I may use these two photos in a story I post on the avcanada.ca website each month, inCurtiss C-46 N67982 - see seperate item further downSee also Art Goddard's photo of N208M taken at Fairbanks airport (FAI) by Art in July 1964, a few months before it crashed, 'found' on Casey Lasota wrote me in August 2019: "Am up in Beaver working a fire, and came upon the Boxcar wreckage.