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Airplane Graveyards

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Wondering where the old airplane's have ended up. What was the most interesting place you have seen one? What was it and what made it so usual to see it there?
I am interested in Noorduyn Norseman and was wondering if anyone knows where there are some just sitting in an old barn or in the back of a hanger.
Lets just keep for sites in Canada.
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An Islander in 4 peices in the trees beside a bush strip in the yukon. Was only the 4th of that type it had eating over the years. Not to mention another dozen various models. Oh and i was in an Islander. :shock:
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"Miss Piggy" in YYQ
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Tons of a/c dotted all over the northern part of BC and the Yukon; Labrador has scads; anywhere within site of Gander, Nfld.
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The Lancaster on Hall Lake
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Post by Clampers »

I have a great photo of a fairly intact DC3 in the Northen Manitoba bush, but couldn't get it posted here.
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Post by Blakey »

Yes, I have the same problem. No doubt it is very simple to attach a photo to a post but it must be too complicated for me as I can't figure it out. Anyone care to do some community service with the computer handicapped and lead us through the process?


Does this mean I can park closer now?
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Post by CD »

Clampers... I've got photos of an DC3 on the shores of a lake in either northern Saskatchewan or Manitoba - has "Ozark" on the side. Wouldn't be the same bird, would it?

As for posting photos, unless it's already hosted on another site, I don't think that this message board as the ability to accept uploads, unfortunately. :cry:
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Hey DEL, i believe there is a norseman in the bush up near big trout lake somewhere. apparently it burnt, all were lost, so it rests in peace. I just read on another website a while back, that there were 2 norseman in an old hanger in alaska,(maybe along the DEW line?) the gov. cleaned up the mess by bulldozing it and therefore destroying whatever was left . What a shame.
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There is a Norseman at Custom Helicopters in YAV. It showed up this fall and is in need of alot of TLC to get it airworthy again.
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Post by Phlyer »

To put in a photo is pretty easy.

-Go to Photobucket.com, create a userneme.

-upload your photo to the site (use the browse function, your pictures on your machine are probably in MyDocs/MyPhotos, if not do a search for them with the search function in your Start menu).

-Once the photo is in Photobucket, copy the 'Img' address (highlight it and either right click and hit 'copy', or highlight and hit 'Control C').

-Go back to this site (this is easier if you open two versions of your internet browser), hit reply, and paste the 'Img' address in your reply (right click and 'paste', or hit Control P).

-Bob's your uncle, as my dad used to say. :)
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Unable Due Traffic: do you happen to know that the reg was??
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There is no fabric left on it, and I didn't get close enough to see if there is a data plate on it.
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Post by basler »

check out buffalo airways yards in red deer, hay river and yellowknife. I think they all count as aircraft grave yeards
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A USAF B36 Bomber wedged between the top of the hills at Nut Cove, NL on Smith's Sound. Just south of the airway about halfway between YQX and YYT. All souls lost. Crashed in 1954.
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There is an aircraft I seen some time ago in Red Deer a Noorduyn Norseman at Sky Wings
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you could always just upload your photo to the avcanada gallery and then link to it.
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I have often wondered about where old arplanes end up. Like all the '55,56',57 Cessna 172's, all the old Cessna 140's. What about all the old Apaches and Aztecs. Does someone recycle them or are they just stored somewhere. I know of a graveyard in Omak Wash. You can buy parts there. There is a company in St Albert, Alta that must have what amounts to an airplane junk yard. Of course there is David Montham AFB and such places in Arizona for larger airplanes. Saskatoon is a junkyard for old ex Canadian F28's but what about the smaller ones. Have they all crashed?There is a farmer at Assinaboia Sask. that has (had) a virtual museum of old airplanes. He has the prototype Fleet Canuck, a flyable Hurricane, a flyable Harvard, a flyable Tiger Moth, is restoring a Bolinbroke and a DC 3, a Lodestar and a whole bnch of other airplanes.
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I remember a graveyard of old scrapped DC3's. It is/was north of Pickle lake by a couple of hours.

I think the place was Weibenville or something like that. An old dirt strip. There were 3 or 4 wrecks there that had been cannabalized.
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I will bet they were part of Porky Weiben's operation in Thunder Bay. Superior Airways. He had a bunch of DC3's years ago. Canabalized an American registered DC3 that crashed on Malcolm Island in Reindeer Lake Sask in the mid 70's.
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Here's A USAF DC-3 on a mountain side near YHT Yukon. They were looking for another plane that went missing. Unfortunetly both pilots were looking outside and managed to belly it in on the mountain side. All Survived. Image
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There's a B-24 about 60 miles NW of YBX. I forget the exact sequence of events, but the crew bailed out and the airplane tootled along on autopilot till it ran outta gas. The thing was pretty well intact from the leading edge rearward. There's either a Curtiss V2SL or a Vickers Vedette, I'm not sure which, on the bottom of a Lac Dore just NE of YZV. It hit a log or something and sank there in th 1920's. There's a Canso at the bottom of Lac Nitchequon, just offshore from the old met station. You used to be able to see the wings underwater there, when the water was low in August. Phil Lariviere tried to salvage it, back in the late 1950's. There's another Canso in Ashuanipi Lake, near Oreway on the QNS&L Railway Line. A friend of mine was on that one, a nosewheel door came open on touchdown and it sank.
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Post by LH »

Be careful gentlemen about how EXACT you are about the locations of wrecks that you know about......specially WW2 wrecks.......it's a website read by more than just those in Canada....take my word for it.....specially aviation and those looking for a/c to restore.

I was once quite vocal whenever I found a wreck, but NO MORE. I'm rated F/W and R/W and on more than one occasion I was chartered by some American to sling-out various a/c I found and I won't name how many nor the makes.........because the results annoy and shame me to this day. I'm ashamed because ALL of them ended up with what was then known as "The Confederate Air Force" out of Arlengen, TX.......they still exist, but have been re-named. Unless some Canadian museum or private Canadian buys them........they are gone forever from our soil. Some are still the property if the USAF, even after all these years, BUT not ALL of them........and definitely NOT items like a WW2 RCAF Hurricane, etc., etc......but the Confederate Air Force got those too.

Ergo, let's leave what may be able to be salvaged in years to come where it is because we eventually get to them, but it just takes us longer. If we keep up and allow what has taken place to date, then one day there won't be anything left for OUR museums. So carry-on by all means, but PLEASE keep the EXACT locations to the PM's. Let's not make it TOO easy for them down south, eh?
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Post by rigpiggy »

actually some of our govt's Yukon etc... send crews out to the wrecks, cut into little pieces and sling them out never to be rebuilt, fly or do anything besides be a beverage can. Do I think we should be saving our aviation heritage absolutely, if somebody else has to do it so be it.
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Post by bush pilot »

Hey spinner,

I don't think that those DC3's are still up in weibenville. I think the only ones in there are Wasaya's Hawkers doing fuel runs.

There is a Navajo in the water at Big Trout Lake, it was in deeper water but the drug it up to the shallows on and Island on the approach for the west bound runway (can't remember the heading).

There is still a float of an old Norseman just south of Round Lake off of the winter road by about a mile or so.

There is also a Beech 18 south of Stony Rapids on the way to Key Lake that is up on a reef partially out of the water. Word is it was just refurbished and was overloaded doing a fish haul and ran up on the reef.
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