Warbird Information Exchange

Sense recently quite a good debate raged on about whether to pursue wrecks abroad or stateside. In the conversation it was mentioned that there were several wrecks stateside worth recovering. My question is, Do we have any idea how many worthwhile wrecks are out here in the U.S. waiting to be recovered? Thanks

Shay

they would have to be in pretty remote areas of the u.s. to be worth it, & hopefully kept safe from hiking idiot vandals & souvinir hackers who will destroy a section for a little keepsake. probably the most suitable area is the pacific northwest, alaska, oregon, washington state, where the forests are so dense it's no telling what is under the muskeg & brush!! believe it or not there still is some uncharted areas to these regions too!! no telling what is laying their since ww 2!!! makes me salivate!!

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My guess is there are still some in remote parts of Canada.
A Flying Magazine article (March 1971) mentioned a B-24 and Lancaster near Resolute Bay, Northwest Territories.
I wonder if the Lancaster they mentioned is actually the York that is being brought out?

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The Resolute Lanc is a Lanc - a burnt and bulldozed Lanc. I think I have some pictures of it somewhere from my time in Res, but you have to really know what it is in order to be able to recognize it. As a project it's hopeless, but there's still a few pieces on her that would be useful to other projects.

Which York is being brought out?

Dan

I really don't know... I saw it here...or maybe the "OTHER" MB.
It was in a barren remote part of Northern Canada..I don't know if it was in the west, center or east.

In your time up North did you hear of the Liberator mentioned in the article?

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Remember the vets, the wonderful planes they flew and their sacrifices for a future many of them did not live to see.

You mean the York that I posted pictures of in the Member's Section? I don't think that'll be going anywhere anytime soon - though I might be up in that neighborhood again in the early part of July.

Never heard anything of a Liberator up around Resolute, although there is an F27 lying on the side of a hill not far from the airport (flew an NDB approach on the wrong NDB). There is a Marine Corps C-47/R4D a little further up that actually is in pretty good shape all things considered, and a story about a C-46 that could almost be flown out of where it is, but I've never been close enough to it to go look for it.

I'll ask around though. It still sometimes happens that the people that know where these things are have no idea that anyone is interested in them.

Dan

Hi All,

My poor old brain is not what she used to be. I do know there is a plane in water, in Florida, that some idiot tried to sell the property rights to, because he was ticked off at his partner. The local authority's were alerted, and they in turn called in the Feds, and I haven't heard anymore about it. IF this guy who placed the ad is to be believed, she is in tact, and underwater. I just can't remember where exactly......I think it was in a county that started with a "P", but I can't be sure? Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?? It would have been sometime in 2002.

Karen

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I see a lot of worthwhile "wrecks" on static display at Air Force bases around the country. Someone should try to recover those.