Can you help me identify this boeing?

Big Pratt · Post by **Big Pratt** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:33 pm

OK so I was driving through an industrial area in Montreal and I passed this scrap yard on my left. Something caught my eye but I dismissed it as impossible, but then curiosity won over and I made a u-turn.
This is what I found.

Can anyone identify it? Who's 737 was it? Why is it there? Where can I get the S/N on that nose?

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:07 am

I was going to say a 727 of FEDEX but reliezed the blue/purple should be on the top.

Driving Rain · Post by **Driving Rain** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:14 am

Hard to say from the photo Big Pratt. 707's 727's and 737's all had the same looking windows and eye brow windows.

J31 · Post by **J31** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:54 am

It looks like a B737-100/200 with a gravel kit.

desksgo · Post by **desksgo** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:27 am

Why didn't you just ask the pilot living in it?

bmc · Post by **bmc** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:44 am

desksgo wrote:Why didn't you just ask the pilot living in it?

badda bing !!

Big Pratt · Post by **Big Pratt** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:08 am

I know that the early boeing jetliners had the same noses (fuselage too I think) so I went back and looked closer at the pics I took.
It's a 707 judging by the electrical panels.

There's a date stamp on a bracket JUL 11 1967

I'm really curious how it ended up there.

And a pilot can't live in it. Too expensive. The scrap guy wanted me to have it for $2000. I said that it's too much of a fixer upper.

niss · Post by **niss** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:25 am

Would he be willing to part it up?

MCA · Post by **MCA** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:33 pm

is it in lachine? i think i recognize the "Canal" in the background of one of the picture... lachine is pretty popular for movie producers, and a lot of weird objects used in shootings now lay in such scrapyards...

QFE · Post by **QFE** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:01 pm

Check out the CB panel. Eng 1 2 3 4. A good start would be a 707.

shitdisturber · Post by **shitdisturber** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 4:00 pm

QFE wrote:Check out the CB panel. Eng 1 2 3 4. A good start would be a 707.

Good eye QFE. You should be able to find a data plate on there somewhere if you're lucky; maybe you can find out information on the net knowing the S/N of the aircraft.

TAT · Post by **TAT** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:19 pm

The id plate is usually affixed to the door frame.

shitdisturber · Post by **shitdisturber** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:52 pm

There should be a lot more than one data plate on an aircraft of that size. When the military pulled out of Germany I volunteered to go on the crews taking the old fighters off the pedestals for shipment home; it beat washing HAS floors. Each of those aircraft had something like half a dozen data plates; it makes sense that a 707 would have more.

FL_CH · Post by **FL_CH** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:38 pm

Looks like it could be ex. ADC Airlines 5N-BBD (cn 19625/693)
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0994473/L/

But some say this aircraft was broken up in the UK.. They could bring the nose to Canada for whatever reason though eh?

Big Pratt · Post by **Big Pratt** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:40 pm

FL_CH I think you are right! Way to go.

If true then this bird had quite a life!

Qantas
LAM (Mozambique)
BMI
BAX (cargo)
ADC (cargo)

And flew as late as 1996 before being chopped up in 2001.

Now does anybody know where I can find the S/N on that nose?
It is cut past the L1 door.

Who would bring it to Montreal from Europe? Plenty of scrap in the deserts.

Yes MCA it is the Lachine canal.
In fact here's what canada411 has to say:

Deitcher Bros (1992) Inc
Address : 6550, rue Saint-Patrick, Lasalle, QC H8N 1V2
Telephone : 514-363-4660
Category : Demolition Contractors, Scrap Metals

linecrew · Post by **linecrew** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:35 am

Here is a picture of it taken in the UK back in April 2001 after it was cut up.

The nose section of course is missing.

carholme · Post by **carholme** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:03 am

Somebody may have thought they could sell it to CAE for use as a sim, possibly for the KC programme.

carholme

TAT · Post by **TAT** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:30 am

I think its amazing that a piece of garbage can be traced that far back..

Good job..

Greg87 · Post by **Greg87** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:03 pm

Anyone else thinking thats a sad end for a 707? Chopped up and spread around the world.

Interesting post. Where do you look up s/n's like that to get all that information?

MCA · Post by **MCA** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:38 pm

i stand with my theory of "movie set" remains... there are a lot in this neighborhood... but i can't figure what they could've been doing with this part!!!

linecrew · Post by **linecrew** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:47 pm

TAT wrote:I think its amazing that a piece of garbage can be traced that far back.. Good job..

You can go ever farther back than that for the history of this particular airframe...

Burlington Air Express August 1989:

British Midland September 1984:

LAM - Linhas Aereas de Mocambique November 1980:

QANTAS sometime in the early 70's"

THe stuff you can find when you're bored at work...

EPR · Post by **EPR** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:16 am

CSI Avcanada

chuck130 · Post by **chuck130** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:59 am

Nice sleuthing all......I saw a Tutor fuselage with the Snowbird paint scheme sticking out of a dumpster in Trenton the other day..... kinda made me sad.

V1RotateV2 · Post by **V1RotateV2** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 3:59 am

Funny the scrap guy didn't sell the electrical panels and CBs. Those are worth $5-20 each, used. Ie:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/KLIXON-A ... enameZWDVW

Good for us, helped ID the 707.

. ._ · Post by **. ._** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:24 am

EPR wrote:CSI Avcanada

No kidding, eh? I'm impressed!

-istp