Airframe - wreck or discard
All,
I'm seeking a junked or wrecked airframe to use as a prop for a fire fighting exercise we will be holding in May. It's all a part of mine emergency response training, we hold bi-annual competitions in the WA Goldfields, teams come from remote minesites far and wide to compete in a range of different emergency response disciplines, fire fighting being one. This year, seeing how most remote operations work on a fly-in / fly-out basis, we thought it high time that the fire fighting event was of an ARFF nature.
The trouble we're having is locating a suitable airframe. We've built a fuselage prop for the actual fire - standard looking cylinder with wing stubs, all metal, you've seen a zillion of them. But we want to dress the area where the event will be held with some genuine and recognizable bits of aircraft - empennage, cockpit, etc etc - scattered around the burn zone. All avenues we've explored have come up zip - aircraft charter and maintenance companies, scrap metal merchants, etc.
Anyone got any pointers, who we could approach? We'll take anything - a battered old 172 frame up to a Metro, in bits, whole or partial - just so long as it's recognisable as belonging to something that once flew. Note that we won't be burning any of this stuff, we're aware that if we did burn it we would only get one fire out of it - it's all for window dressing to make the scenario we're putting together for the competing teams more realistic and believable.
We're in the WA Goldfields region, so alas restricted to this state.
Thanks,
Stopedancer