DC3 DISCOVERY WITH 206 ON FLOATS

King of Obsolete · Post by **King of Obsolete** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:02 pm

hello, i just registered because i thought you guys might like to see the fun we have in the great white north. i was bored on monday so i ordered a 206 and went out and looked at a dc3 that crashed on an island hauling lodge guests in 1969. so would any body want parts off this plane before i drag it home to the KINGDOM to make a guest house?????

to see all the pictures click on.

http://kingofobsolete.ca/discovery_of_t ... ebpage.htm

thansk

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:12 pm

Ill sell ya this one and ive still got another one in a lake Ill throw in for half price!

King of Obsolete · Post by **King of Obsolete** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:23 pm

thansk, i just finsihed reading about that one, you can ski-doo right up to it and party. the dc3 in churchill is set up with picnic table and everything. here is the picture thansk to google earth.

the whole story .

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... -0&lang=en

plus the other one i'm waiting for pictures on.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... -1&lang=en

and here is the report on this dc3 we are looking at.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/rec ... 19690710-0

thansk

MRO · Post by **MRO** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:21 pm

Very cool stuff, kinda spooky though

McPhoo · Post by **McPhoo** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:54 pm

King of Obsolete,

Thanks for the link to your story page. I haven't seen Berg since he was a puppy. Nice to see he is still around. Even if all we get to see is his hiny. The pilot we shall call 'Pete'? Now he is what some would call The Shit. I mean that in the best way possible too. Glad to hear he is making a go of it up there.

Cheers

King of Obsolete · Post by **King of Obsolete** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:12 pm

thansk, i have known the pilot as petey so i just used pete for the website. i get a million hits a month and over a 1000 veiws aday on the other BBs that i hang out at.
on the lynn lake air website you will see a very nice colour picture with the head frame. i took it in december of 2003 and i would say not bad for a colour blind fellow, LOL
lynn lake air service has given us good service and we can't complian. even flew southern belle back from winnipeg when she got sick in the fall.

http://kingofobsolete.ca/southern_belle ... EBPAGE.htm

i have seen the dog grow up in lynn lake and the clean white fur is excellent.

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:57 pm

Heres another Angle of the one on the mountain, and this is the best ive got of the one in the lake near Beaver Creek

King of Obsolete · Post by **King of Obsolete** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:02 pm

excellent pictures, which beaver creek is that you are talking about?????

any more details??????

thansk

bronson · Post by **bronson** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:30 am

Looks like a Buffalo machine ( the first one). If it's the one I'm thinking of the pilot told me " we turned on the landing lights at 500', didn't like what we saw, so we turned 'em off again"

ScudRunner · Post by **ScudRunner** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:31 pm

Beaver Creek, Yukon

sky's the limit · Post by **sky's the limit** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:13 pm

Jeeze ..,

Doug and the boys had that DC-3 picked clean years ago...lol

How you making out up there?

STL

King of Obsolete · Post by **King of Obsolete** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:24 pm

yes all the dc3 that i have seen in manitoba have been picked, very clean. the one in churchill is set up with picnic tables and painted to look good. you walk inside on the plywood floor and sit in the seat for a picture. it is even on the churchill tourist map. WOW is all i have to say.

thansk

longjon · Post by **longjon** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:27 am

The DC-3 near Beaver Creek YT was gone over by Ron Frid years before Doug got near it. He slung the engines out and sold them for the cranks.

Then when TNTA was running their 3,s they send a crew up to strip it of cowls etc and they had a whole truck of stuff complete with form 1,s of course.

Actually I doubt there was very much left by the time Doug got near it.

King of Obsolete · Post by **King of Obsolete** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:28 am

there is one motor still at the crash site of the churchill dc3. you can't see it in the pictures because it is about 10 feet aheadof the plane and down in between the rocks. the left motor that caused the crash is gone. they must have taken it during the crash investagtion.
would any parts be salvagable on the dc3, i don't like scrapping something it there is a use for it. even if i make a guest house out of it, i would like any good parts to find a home.

thansk

niss · Post by **niss** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:40 am

What are the rules when parting out a crashed plane like that, does no one technically own it?

longjon · Post by **longjon** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:04 am

DC.3 props were not attached to Motors. Motors derive their power from extension cords pluged into the wall. Airplanes have Engines.

Just one of my pet peeves.

My feelings toward salvaged parts from the bush is that as long as you have a form 1 with it for traceability then go ahead and sell it if you can find a buyer.

The big thing recently with parts was the bogus factor and all receiving departments have to have traceability or out they go.

Not the way it works in reality I know

King of Obsolete · Post by **King of Obsolete** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:46 am

we were bored again yesterday so we put the ramp boat in the water a cruised over to transwest's water base for beer. but no one was home. oh well, the last time we did this we enjoyed los of beer on a saturday night.

thansk

fatso · Post by **fatso** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:49 am

King of ......is that some of your junk in Ilford...

King of Obsolete · Post by **King of Obsolete** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 7:57 am

"JUNK" that is part of the CAT TRAIN TOURS, we have now have our tour operator's permit for ilford so we can start booking guests. also this winter we will need a plane on ski so the guests can enjoy the great white north.

so how do you know about my collectables in ilford?????

http://www.cattraintours.ca

http://kingofobsolete.ca/ilford_camping ... EBPAGE.htm

thansk

wowwick · Post by **wowwick** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:26 am

It's a C46 in Churchill

klimman123 · Post by **klimman123** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:33 pm

I see your DC3 and raise you a Bristol Freighter

longjon · Post by **longjon** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:02 am

Interesting pix of the Bristow where was it taken and what year? Canada??

Its not Jack Andersons of NCAS is it? Its not a TPA macine.

Maybe Quebec from the Churchhill Falls project, I heard a lot of machines were working that project including a Bristow from Norcan Air.

I think he(Jack Anderson) let one sink in a high Alpine Lake one year, either a Bristow or a Twin Pin but I think it was a Bristow. To my knowledge its lying intact on the bottom of a cold lake. Someone correct me if Im wrong and it was retreived.

King of Obsolete · Post by **King of Obsolete** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:19 am

thansk, those are excellent pictures, just need a decent printer and i would be able to frame them for my office wall. LOL

ok i'll need an office too, LOL

please tell us more.

also there are 3 complete airplanes in reindeer lake too. i would like to salvage someday too.

thansk

Idriveplane · Post by **Idriveplane** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:14 am

Kinda crappy resolution but Its a Canso about 25 mile NE of Sioux Lookout. Took the Pic while ripping by.

klimman123 · Post by **klimman123** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:43 pm

The Bristol Freighter is laying on the shore of Beaver Lodge Lake in NWT. About 150nm nw of Yellowknife. From what I could find out, it seems it went through the ice one year while servicing a uranium mine in the 60's. It was hauled on shore and salvaged. Heard it belonged to Max Ward back in the day. I didn't get a chance to poke around her or find out it's regristration. Found it just 3wks ago. And last week I met Max Ward but I completly forgot to ask him about it.

Cheers