Hendricks Feild crash site's- Updated

[Wildchild]

Hey guys, sorry to bring this back up, but you should change the title from crash site to crash sites.

I got to speak to the family who owned all the land around the Airport and racetrack and they suspected 11-12 wrecks, with most of them recovered or destroyed by the sod farm.

But, there is 1 known bomber left which they can't remove because its air-locked in mud. Appearently its perfect except for the landing gears which they can't find. They tried everything to remove it, including a helicopter, but it wouldnt budge... Do you guys remember hearing about this?

[p51]

Classic warbird "big fish story," where a WW2 plane is found in perfect condition years after the fact, where anyone could get to it, yet nobody can recall anything specific, there are no photos, the plane doesn't exist today (or nobody can remember when it was removed).
I'd bet all the money in my wallet it never happened.

[Wildchild]

Yet it's still there, still accessible, still in the same landing pattern, yet they can't get it out due to the suction inside the mud.

She said she has pictures, but didn't have them at the time since we were at the racetrack.

[F3A-1]

If I recall correctly someone reported on WIX, playing on a Corsair in a lake in Northern Florida when he was young?

If I take him at his word, then that airplane is as real as the one at Hendricks Field.

I have recovered wrecks and parts of wrecks for over 30 years. There are still more to recover and many more of us, than I, out there able and willing to do it. I have been told for many years that a B-17 was still buried at Hendricks. I suspect it could be. I have not believed some of the stories over many years and have seen and touched the planes later and regretted my skepticism. I have also looked for planes that have been removed (usually by scrapers) before my search.

Don't give up! Don't quit trying!

Regards,
Pirate Lex
http://www.BrewsterCorsair.com

[p51]

If I recall correctly someone reported on WIX, playing on a Corsair in a lake in Northern Florida when he was young?

Yeah, the difference is that the corsair is in awful shape, even several years ago (going on 20 now). It's flipped upside down and probably was ripped in half but you couldn't tell with just a swim mask.
Heck, there are oodles of planes all ate up in open places, I know of several myself, and almost all of them are well known by others and these are old corroded hulks. How's a perfectly intact WW2 plane supposedly sitting out in the open going to be missed by everyone except one person?
The age old "brand new WW2 plane just sitting out in the open" when nobody has actually seen it or can tell you where it is, is just an old fish story. I can't see how it couldn't be any more obvious. I've been told many such stories and the people telling them can never tell you exactly where they are, nobody has ever seen them and there's no way to get to them. Come on, how blind do you gotta be to not see this for what it is???

Yet it's still there, still accessible, still in the same landing pattern, yet they can't get it out due to the suction inside the mud.
She said she has pictures, but didn't have them at the time since we were at the racetrack.

Okay, then why isn't it widely known? Why can't they tell you where it is exactly? I assume Google earth somehow missed it? Nobody on the forum has heard of it?