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Postby Fritz » Mon Oct 17, 2016 8:26 pm

... in remarkably good condition after almost 70 years in the open:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/16/aviat ... index.html

https://www.dc3dakotahunter.com/blog/yu ... ew-photos/

Today these planes are so valuable that they would be repaired on site and flown out:

http://bsccoc.ca/index.php?Req=214 (look for "The Big Fix!")

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Postby Fritz » Sun Nov 06, 2016 10:13 pm

Already mentioned in the "Where did you fly today - Part 3" thread, the wreck at Nikolski Airport (now featured in FG thanks to hardba11).

Accident description with pictures: https://aviation-safety.net/database/re ... 19650529-0
Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.9419936 ... a=!3m1!1e3
Picture: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/2598135
Picture: https://spoiledbysupercub.files.wordpre ... g_4746.jpg

You can see in the pictures that the left wing was still in place in 2004 and 2007, i.e. more than 40 years after the crash. It is said to have broken off because children used it as a trampoline. But I'm not sure if this is true because DC-3 wings don't seem to fall off so easily.


Another wreck in Iceland, more severely damaged and without its outer wings:

Accident description with pictures: https://aviation-safety.net/database/re ... 19731121-0
Google Maps: https://www.google.de/maps/@63.4592213, ... a=!3m1!1e3
Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... s-ago.html
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Re: C-47 wrecks ...

Postby Johan G » Mon Nov 07, 2016 12:37 pm

See also the topic Static Douglas DC-3 aircraft.
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