Late 1980/early 1990s, a CH-47 or a CH-53 was used to ferry a time expired Curtiss C-46, less the wings outboard of the engines, from Miami Airport's Cockroach Corner to a museum somewhere "up north".
Whatever method they used to keep the C-46 pointing in the direction of flight failed, it began to spin uncontrollably and was hastily dropped into a convenient patch of wasteland.