Unknown Fate Of A Pair of French Texans...

[Scott Rose]

These two woe begone Texans are listed as stored in 1992, which is the last information I have. Does anybody know of there eventual fate? I'm not holding out any hope that these two experienced any other fate besides the scrapper. Fingers crossed though.


TEXAN/51-14707


TEXAN/51-14979

[BennoT6]

Hi,

Photo's were taken at La Ferte Alais, France, where a number of T-6G Texans were "dumped" in the woods. "stored" probably not the right word. Most of those ended up somehow, complete or for parts recovery, as a "flyer". However these two not reported extant.

For the record:
51-14707 : accident 1960/03/20 Blida while in service with EALA 3/12; to domaines in 1965; reported dumped at La Ferte Alais (FR), coded 'KN'
51-14979 : to domaines in 1965; reported dumped at La Ferte Alais (FR), coded 'Q'

Regards,

BennoT6

[Fred41]

None still stored outdoor.

[Iclo]

Hi Scott,

The only peoples who could answer this question is probably the peoples of La Ferté-Alais / Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis / Salis familly

Various T6 are/were operated there and at least two of them where converted / mocked as other planes type:
- A Zero
- NA68 for a film on Indochine War (The Salis familly also run "Salis Aviation" a specialized company providing services for filmmakers) if I'm not wrong, this one beeing converted back as T6 after a belly landing few years ago.

Perhaps these two airframes was one of them ?

I could try to make a relay on the Facebook page of the AJBs (Amicale Jean-Baptiste Salis) if you want...

Regards,

[MacHarvard]

I have no idea where the unfortunate and long standing idea came from that the aircraft mentioned by Iclo (not blaming him) are supposed to represent the NA-68, but I would like to correct that error. Two machines were modified to look like French Navy Hellcats for the Movie 'Indochine'. F-AZHE carried the scheme for Flotille 14F and F-AZHD carried Flotille 11F colours.

F-AZHD is 51-14367 and F-AZHE is 41-33606.