For the Pprune brains trust; Identify this.
 

While searching for shelter from today's rain I came across this on the southern tarmac at Point Cook, Australia

Is anyone able to identify?


http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...e/SAM_0711.jpg

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...e/SAM_0710.jpg

Looks very much like the rear section of a Dakota port outer wing panel.

Edit: On reflection, there are too many ribs in the flap bay for it to be an outer wing panel. I'm going for the rear structure of the centre section (100% certain it's Douglas).

With a serial number plate I would have thought that it was a replaceable item like an elevator or something. The 'ANA'; would that possibly be a company (Australian National Airlines) identification?

Could it be Scottish Aviation? They did B-24 conversions in the war. The date seems to be 1944. And the RAAF used the B-24.

Laurence

ANA - Australian National Airways operated from 1936 (1932 at Flinders Island Airways) to 1957 when taken over by Ansett.

An "ANA" serial number dated 1944 appears to support an ex ANA part, probably Douglas. (ANA operated DC2, DC3, DC4 etc.)

Get back there with a tape-measure mate! :ok: I wanna know if A = B. My theory is the perspective of the photo is producing a false taper? To me it looks like a rectangular piece.

(PS. Wouldn't one of the museum staff know where it's from?)

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2627/sam0711b.jpg

Unfortunately I was there for work and didn't have time to drop into the museum. I'll be back in a week, so may ask around.

I didn't run a tape measure over it, but i did appear rectangular.

My first thought was that it was an ANA part, but would they have their own serial numbers? I would have thought manufacturers would provide the s/n, not operator. I'm certainly no expert though!

Lincoln Mk 30 ? I was at a reunion in Feb this year and remember someone saying it was a section of Lincoln wing. As late as 1967 A73-55 was derelict at Amberley. The Lincoln centre section was square but the outer wings had the usual taper.

First Aussie Lincoln flew in 1946, that second photo has a date stamp of '44. Maybe I'm wrong.