Can someone identify these wrecks?
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Not a P-38?
Maybe missing centre section?
Imagine upside down, with those funny helmet looking things where the wheels would have been... (Flap down (up) at the back)
Dog
Maybe missing centre section?
Imagine upside down, with those funny helmet looking things where the wheels would have been... (Flap down (up) at the back)
Dog
Last edited by Dogimed; 23rd Mar 2009 at 10:45. Reason: Another thought!
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I was thinking DC3 at first however it has retracts and the wheels would either be out in the open or away in the fuse, so there would be no need for those cover things. They don't make sense.
Not a meteor as they were Jet powered and this thing looks to clearly have had piston jobbies and you can see where the engine mounts were by the look of it.
Not a meteor as they were Jet powered and this thing looks to clearly have had piston jobbies and you can see where the engine mounts were by the look of it.
That would be the inverted centre section of DC-3:
c/n 16147/32895
44-76563
PK-RDB
Previously NZ3537/ZK-AOZ/5W-FAA
Written off at Darwin in Cyclone Tracy
This aeroplane had main gear doors.
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c/n 16147/32895
44-76563
PK-RDB
Previously NZ3537/ZK-AOZ/5W-FAA
Written off at Darwin in Cyclone Tracy
This aeroplane had main gear doors.
Rgds
Edited sequence of registrations
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VH-XXX, If I were you 
I'd post this in Aviation History and Nostalgia. You'll have an answer in minutes. Well - soon.
PS. Disregard. Fris B has it. DC-3 with wheel spats.
See Post # 10 here. Very same aircraft - with spats - and alive.
DC 3 Pictures - Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums
I'd post this in Aviation History and Nostalgia. You'll have an answer in minutes. Well - soon.PS. Disregard. Fris B has it. DC-3 with wheel spats.
See Post # 10 here. Very same aircraft - with spats - and alive.
DC 3 Pictures - Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums
Last edited by forget; 23rd Mar 2009 at 12:10.
WELL DONE FRIS!
DC-3C 5W-FAA, Western Samoa's (now Independent Samoa) first registered aircraft.
Ex 44-76563,NZ3537 and ZK-AOZ, AiResearch Inc. 'Maximiser' kit fitted.
Taken at Whenuapai (New Zealand) on delivery May 1963.
Eventually returned to NZ and sold to Seulawah Air Service as PK-RDB.
Left Auckland on delivery flight 27Sep65, got as far as Darwin on 2Oct65. Remained there, as payment not received.
DBR Darwin 24Dec74 in Cyclone Tracy, remains to Military Museum, East Point, Darwin.
DC-3C 5W-FAA, Western Samoa's (now Independent Samoa) first registered aircraft.
Ex 44-76563,NZ3537 and ZK-AOZ, AiResearch Inc. 'Maximiser' kit fitted.
Taken at Whenuapai (New Zealand) on delivery May 1963.
Eventually returned to NZ and sold to Seulawah Air Service as PK-RDB.
Left Auckland on delivery flight 27Sep65, got as far as Darwin on 2Oct65. Remained there, as payment not received.
DBR Darwin 24Dec74 in Cyclone Tracy, remains to Military Museum, East Point, Darwin.
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The DC-3 / C-47 with gear doors that I was familiar with was known as the McDermott mod, fully enclosed mains, retracting tail wheel, modified engine cowls with smaller frontal inlet, sometimes fixed cowl flaps, collector exhaust system with short stacks and deflector. IIRC TAS was around 170k. Engineering nightmare from the simplicity of the original design. Alan.
Silly Old Git
The original museum in Gardens Hill Crescent. Been looking at that junk just around the corner from my house for over 20 years. Anyone from Darwin city council here? Please clean it up.
tinny
Have you no feeling for history?
You should see some cleaning up happening this dry.
I'll check out the other one and advise. I have a feeling its been moved since the photo was taken.
Have you no feeling for history?
You should see some cleaning up happening this dry.
I'll check out the other one and advise. I have a feeling its been moved since the photo was taken.
