I.D. this....

This is a very nice thread. Pause to pray for the lost aircrew.

I'd say that the photo with the half round window is a C-46.

dirtball wrote:

A wild guess at #3 (if its on its back) could be a C-119 flying box car???I have no idea what the rest are, and what is the first plane? Its a real looker............Harv

The first shots of the single engine are all yours. I'm guessing its Russian.

The big dead wing picture  is the prize. There are at LEAST four but maybe a fifth and.. engine mounts, on an un interrupted wing. What does that tell us?

Parasol, either up or down. Seaplane then. Japanese or USN? Mavis and Emily had four. Mariner and Catalina had two. Mars had four but I don't think so here. Commercial job? Boeing 314.

Keep me posted.

I'll mention I found a photo of #1 where the fuselage was still there, I was trying to find it again to double check that it was the same aircraft, but I'm pretty sure it was, so that wreck isn't as grizzly as it appears which also makes it more difficult.

#3 looks like is was pointing in the direction of where I was standing and the port wing either flipped in the accident or had been since, it was alittle eerie standing there looking at these things that have sat here for years wondering what became of the men who were flying them, the third one had obviously been on fire, also sad in the fact that they're all within a couple miles of the airport. It's interesting to note that the rudder of the first one still flaps back and forth in the wind.

That first plane is a Spartan Executive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan_Executive

RemcoGrob wrote:

That first plane is a Spartan Executive:

I cheated and searched the registration number...

http://www.dtlinn.com/spartanpage/spartanexecutive.html

Harv- SLAP!!

Guess on the big job.

#1 looks to be a b-24 or b-17 Just my guess i could be wrong

Let's see....

4 engines, which look to be low slung, looks like a twin-tail  configuration, faded remnants of  fin flashes on what appears an oval/elliptical shaped fin... If that kink in the port wing is meant to be there and not a result of the crash, I'd say a Lancaster or Lancaster derivative.

bondoman wrote:

I think its a brit, like a whitley or a short.

The Whitley was twin engined.

Lancastrian? Was there a Mil version?

Shackleton?

#1. At first glance I thought it was a B-24 but after seeing the curve of the rudders and the tail flash I think it's a Brit!

I'm going with a Lanc

bondoman wrote:

Pause to pray for the lost aircrew.

Nice thought, but it doesn't look like any of them are crash sites or have damage from a crash. If they are, the evidence is well hidden from the years of exposure.

I knew the shiny single engine was a Spartan. They were built in Tulsa and there are a couple of examples (different types) in the Tulsa Air & Space Museum.

I'm going with my gut on a couple of the wrecks...

#3 looked like a B-26 to me, but it's kinda hard to tell with no size references. As for it being a C-119, I say no because I haven't found too many of those with 3-bladed props.

#2 looks like a DC-3 or some variant.

acmodeler01 wrote:

#3 looked like a B-26 to me, but it's kinda hard to tell with no size references. As for it being a C-119, I say no because I haven't found too many of those with 3-bladed props.

If not a C-119, perhaps a C-82?

The big guy is a DC-6.  The pictures of the wrecks I can't ID, to little left to identify anyway....

-Red

Red13Bar wrote:

The big guy is a DC-6.  The pictures of the wrecks I can't ID, to little left to identify anyway.... -Red

There's enough there if you think "Canadian"

I wanna say #1 is/was a lanc or some thing similar.

#2 is either a C-46 or 47......I'm leaning toward's 46

#3...?????????

First one definitely looks like a Lancaster or possibly a Lancastrian, the transport version.

Haven't a clue on the others, but the pics are just sooo cool.

Karl

Yeh, #1 is a lancaster, it's FM221 which crashed there in september 1950, it's listed on the Lancaster society's website, I saw it from the road and asked the guy who was driving if he knew what it was, he thought it was a kingair, but I flew over the next day and released there's no way, but had no idea it would be a Lanc until I got right up to it, here's another picture that shows the top of the nose

Here's an interesting extra bit of info on #2:

As far as I can tell it's a DC-4, the photos don't show well, but that's definatly part of another nacelle where it's broken off, I imagine the rest of it must have been there at some point or that wing would have been in worse shape... Resolute was used alot by the Americans aswell when the Dew line was being built so I imagine there's as much American wreckage out there as Canadian, in looking up these things I found lots about various military planes abandoned all over the north in the 50s and 60s, more work than they were worth then to get them out.

For #3 somebody mentioned what my guess is, a C-82, I didn't know about it before I was trying to figure it out, at first I was thinking Boxcar because it really looks like it have to of had a boom there that's been cut off, and Boxcars were used by the RCAF, but of coarse the engine was wrong, but the C-82 was similar layout with R-2800s, and that looks like it could be an R-2800. The other thing with that it that I found info on a C-82 that had crashed at a weather station near there that's fuselage had been turned into a shed, so at least it's known they were flying out of there.

There's also a F-27 airliner that crashed in the 70s pretty much entirely intact somewhere near Resolute but I never got a chance to find out where it is.