Abandoned Navy Super DC-3 in Iceland
Sun Jun 01, 2014 11:47 pm
My friend Eric Cheng snapped these photos of an abandoned Super DC-3 in Iceland:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... le-2643794
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... le-2643794
Re: Abandoned Navy Super DC-3 in Iceland
Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:37 am
excellent pics, & may I add you have quite a vocabulary!!
Re: Abandoned Navy Super DC-3 in Iceland
Mon Jun 02, 2014 11:24 am
Great photos on the site / article to which you linked.
You know of course that if anybody ever tried to "salvage" what's left (and it ain't much, that's for sure!) then all of sudden the Navy would pop up and say "it wasn't 'abandoned' - it's still belongs to us and it has just been very far down our list of priorities...."
You know of course that if anybody ever tried to "salvage" what's left (and it ain't much, that's for sure!) then all of sudden the Navy would pop up and say "it wasn't 'abandoned' - it's still belongs to us and it has just been very far down our list of priorities...."
Re: Abandoned Navy Super DC-3 in Iceland
Mon Jun 02, 2014 3:28 pm
Thanks for the link. I guess if someone wants to salvage a naval plane its not allowed but just leave it set and take souvenirs would be OK! 
Re: Abandoned Navy Super DC-3 in Iceland
Mon Jun 02, 2014 6:47 pm
Very cool and great quality photos. Thanks for sharing.
Re: Abandoned Navy Super DC-3 in Iceland
Mon Jun 02, 2014 7:38 pm
It already has been salvaged. All the things that make it a C-117 Super Gooney are missing. The square tail, long range wings, engines, etc. If the Navy hadn't stripped it, there would be more of the big items like the vertical fins and maybe engines. Would love to own a flyable one!
Re: Abandoned Navy Super DC-3 in Iceland
Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:32 pm
marine air wrote:It already has been salvaged. All the things that make it a C-117 Super Gooney are missing. The square tail, long range wings, engines, etc. If the Navy hadn't stripped it, there would be more of the big items like the vertical fins and maybe engines. Would love to own a flyable one!
NEWS FLASH, NEWS FLASH!!! this just in....the remains of said airframe are currently in INDEFINITE COLD STORAGE and the property of the United States Navy. Any effort to strip or remove anything that the Department of the Navy has missed, will result in the full and merciless wrath of said Department of the Navy.
that is all.....resume normal operations.
Re: Abandoned Navy Super DC-3 in Iceland
Mon Jun 02, 2014 9:55 pm
gary1954 wrote:marine air wrote:It already has been salvaged. All the things that make it a C-117 Super Gooney are missing. The square tail, long range wings, engines, etc. If the Navy hadn't stripped it, there would be more of the big items like the vertical fins and maybe engines. Would love to own a flyable one!
NEWS FLASH, NEWS FLASH!!! this just in....the remains of said airframe are currently in INDEFINITE COLD STORAGE and the property of the United States Navy. Any effort to strip or remove anything that the Department of the Navy has missed, will result in the full and merciless wrath of said Department of the Navy.
that is all.....resume normal operations.
And here I thought we'd found a great candidate for a data plate rebuild.