Wrecks of aircrafts at airports - where are they?
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Hi guys,
just found an interesting picture showing some airplane wrecks parked at the airport in Madrid (Spain).
I am interested if it is common that aircrafts which canīt be used for flying any longer parked for long time at airports and especially -> do you know any other locations with aircrafts, which rebuilding is not possible due to missing parts or profitable and waiting to become scrap?
I know there are some big aircraft storage areas in the US, but they arenīt the ones I am seeking.
I donīt mean big jets - just planes of the former generations (for example piston powered oldtimers with max. 2 engines like the DC-3 or something in this class)
You guys travel throughout the world and I am sure you have seen such storage places in the hidden corners of the airfields / airports
(I am especially interested in planes located in Europe, but also in other parts of the world when the planes are a bit unique!)
Many thanks about your postings (PMs also welcome) - I am very courious about your answers!
Sebastian
PS: And no, I am not dealing with scrap
just found an interesting picture showing some airplane wrecks parked at the airport in Madrid (Spain).
I am interested if it is common that aircrafts which canīt be used for flying any longer parked for long time at airports and especially -> do you know any other locations with aircrafts, which rebuilding is not possible due to missing parts or profitable and waiting to become scrap?
I know there are some big aircraft storage areas in the US, but they arenīt the ones I am seeking.
I donīt mean big jets - just planes of the former generations (for example piston powered oldtimers with max. 2 engines like the DC-3 or something in this class)
You guys travel throughout the world and I am sure you have seen such storage places in the hidden corners of the airfields / airports
(I am especially interested in planes located in Europe, but also in other parts of the world when the planes are a bit unique!)
Many thanks about your postings (PMs also welcome) - I am very courious about your answers!
Sebastian
PS: And no, I am not dealing with scrap
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Came across a DC-3 on side apron when I flew into Darwin,Australia seemed in good condition.
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Seb,
I can't think of many airports in Europe which do not have some junk aircraft sitting around somewhere. Even Heathrow has a Concorde
It might be quicker if you asked a question about a single aircraft type or a specific airport ie. "Does anyone know where there is a Constellation" (yes - I think there is one in Nantes) or "Is there anything parked at ABC"
Happy hunting.
I can't think of many airports in Europe which do not have some junk aircraft sitting around somewhere. Even Heathrow has a Concorde
It might be quicker if you asked a question about a single aircraft type or a specific airport ie. "Does anyone know where there is a Constellation" (yes - I think there is one in Nantes) or "Is there anything parked at ABC"
Happy hunting.
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In Canada.
Yellowknife (Buffalo Airways spare parts junkyard with C-46, DC-3, DC-4)
Red Deer (Airspray, also their parked A-26's are more or less all for sale in different conditions)
I can think of a dozen or so Bac-146 stored in Calgary.
Same numbers of F-28's sitting iddle for a few years now in either Regina or Saskatoon.
I stand to be corrected but that's what I can think right now for this part of the world.
oh, and Africa has a lot of junk, parked in a corner or simply flying you could be (not) surprise
Yellowknife (Buffalo Airways spare parts junkyard with C-46, DC-3, DC-4)
Red Deer (Airspray, also their parked A-26's are more or less all for sale in different conditions)
I can think of a dozen or so Bac-146 stored in Calgary.
Same numbers of F-28's sitting iddle for a few years now in either Regina or Saskatoon.
I stand to be corrected but that's what I can think right now for this part of the world.
oh, and Africa has a lot of junk, parked in a corner or simply flying you could be (not) surprise
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If they are still there... In Malaga, I saw several old IBERIA DC-10s standing around. They were only "parked", but none of them looked as if they might still be useable. But that was in 2003.
In Saigon (Ho-Chih-Minh) Airport, you can see a real "museum". Dozens of old Soviet-era helicopters standing around in old shelters, that still have rusty machine-gun mounts fixed on the rooves. On the apron, you have plenty of old Antonov-Turboprops in varying states of decay - and I'm sure that some of them are still flying. And next to the main taxiway, there are the wrecks of a Tu-134, a 727 and some other old commercial jets.
Really beautiful - except that you aren't allowed to walk around and check them out.
But otherwise, with todays prices for (recycled) aluminium and steel, I doubt wether there are still a lot of old planes standing around European airports. Certainly there are no boneyards like in the USA.
East Germany had quite a lot of stuff until a few years ago, but that's also over by now. I remember having seen plenty of old military helicopters and fighters, as well as agricultural pistons (i.e. AN-2, PZL, Wilga, etc.) standing around on abandoned fields in the countryside. At that time, it was also still possible to buy souvenirs like cockpit-instruments or seats or things like that on local flea-markets (ebay has taken over that job meanwhile).
But that is not anymore - those aircraft have all been removed, scrapped, or, if they were lucky, sometimes put into museums.
As a general guideline, the chances for spotting some interesting junk usually get better the further east and south you travel. Countries like Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria or Ukrainia often have old wrecks lying around their smaller civil aerodromes.
Or just go to Africa, where almost any airport has a nice collection of abandoned planes.
I "found" an old DC-3 in Nairobi once, which was pretty much finished. Just an empty shell, without engines or wheels, paint peeling off the badly bashed-up fuselage, and the interior almost completely empty. Searching through what was left of the cockpit, I discovered some old papers lying around, and was able to find out that this plane had been standing there since 1978 - at least, that's when the registration apparently had expired.
Otherwise, there was absolutely nothing left inside, so no souvenirs
In Saigon (Ho-Chih-Minh) Airport, you can see a real "museum". Dozens of old Soviet-era helicopters standing around in old shelters, that still have rusty machine-gun mounts fixed on the rooves. On the apron, you have plenty of old Antonov-Turboprops in varying states of decay - and I'm sure that some of them are still flying. And next to the main taxiway, there are the wrecks of a Tu-134, a 727 and some other old commercial jets.
Really beautiful - except that you aren't allowed to walk around and check them out.
But otherwise, with todays prices for (recycled) aluminium and steel, I doubt wether there are still a lot of old planes standing around European airports. Certainly there are no boneyards like in the USA.
East Germany had quite a lot of stuff until a few years ago, but that's also over by now. I remember having seen plenty of old military helicopters and fighters, as well as agricultural pistons (i.e. AN-2, PZL, Wilga, etc.) standing around on abandoned fields in the countryside. At that time, it was also still possible to buy souvenirs like cockpit-instruments or seats or things like that on local flea-markets (ebay has taken over that job meanwhile).
But that is not anymore - those aircraft have all been removed, scrapped, or, if they were lucky, sometimes put into museums.
As a general guideline, the chances for spotting some interesting junk usually get better the further east and south you travel. Countries like Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria or Ukrainia often have old wrecks lying around their smaller civil aerodromes.
Or just go to Africa, where almost any airport has a nice collection of abandoned planes.
I "found" an old DC-3 in Nairobi once, which was pretty much finished. Just an empty shell, without engines or wheels, paint peeling off the badly bashed-up fuselage, and the interior almost completely empty. Searching through what was left of the cockpit, I discovered some old papers lying around, and was able to find out that this plane had been standing there since 1978 - at least, that's when the registration apparently had expired.
Otherwise, there was absolutely nothing left inside, so no souvenirs
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As a good example of scrap value these days, I believe Norwich Airport have sold thier old completish Handley Page Herald that was used for towing practice and the Herald and F27 fuselages used for fire practice to the scrap man, they have been there for years but all of a sudden Norwich are trying to raise all the money they can and it seems they saw the light of the scrap mans torch, it may already be too late to see these as it was three weeks ago that I was told the the scrapman commeth
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Air Nigeria or Nigerian Airways (??) used to have a 747-200 and some other randoms parked up at Lagos as well as the usual assortment of wrecks scattered about the airfield. Not sure if they are still there and can't remember noticing so many last time I was there - I'm down that way next week so I'll tell you !