On a regular basis people sent me photos, to share their enthusiasm for vintage airliners or to illustrate a question. These photos have been lingering in a scrapbook or a discarded box somewhere and/or probably wouldn't find their way to Online-use or publication. To prevent them from getting lost, with permission of the sender, I like to share them on this page. Photos already online (personal websites, airliners.net, jetphotos.net, etc) are not meant to be included here. With the ever growing popularity of Social Media (Flickr, Facebook, Instagram) the barrier has become much lower for people to share their photographs or scans of slides; imperfection to post aviation images is no longer an issue. I noticed a decline in requests for publication on my website (a decline I welcome, as I struggle with the workflow) on my 'Guest Pages', so now some of these images shared below will be copied from Facebook & Flickr by me. For preservation of their historic value as I see it; always with proper credit to the photographer, of course! Btw, while I am on social media, picking up on aviation news, I use it mainly for other interests while my website remains my main focus to share my interest in vintage aviation. |
Douglas C-47A ETM-6011 (c/n 9252) was moved from its display spot at Santa Lucia AB, probably to make room for renovations on the air base. This was posted on Facebook in Jan.2021. ![]() If anyone knows where it is going, drop me an email! EMAIL |
Rolf Larsson sent me this photo of Convair CV440 XA-LAF (c/n 402) in Jan.2021.
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Decades ago, a visit to Greybull
airport in Wyoming sort of confirmed my developing taste for 'propliners'.
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Martin Perkins wrote me in Jan.2021: "The picture of A-26 N4818E caught my eye in your TEXAS 2015 report.
I see it seems to be have been ‘off radar’ for a few years, and although I cannot confirm its location for the whole period I can confirm that I came across it at a site in Georgia. I came across Mallards Landing Airport, a residential airfield with houses all around the grass runway (featured a number of times on my website). This is where I found N4818E (44-35371) parked up with some of the front Perspex missing. [ ![]() Photos taken on the 02Jun09 by Martin Perkins. For more photos & details see my TEXAS 2015 REPORT. |
This photo was shared on Facebook 31Dec20, by Nick Finzer ('Aviation Wrecks and relics') ![]() C-47 316062 (43-16062) at Isachsen, on Ellef Ringnes Island. The photo is copyricht Derrick Midwinter. See also my Abandoned Plane Wrecks of the Arctic North, an older post for more details and another photo by Derrick |
This was shared by Adam Boatman on Facebook, 31Dec20. Screendumps from a video. ![]() The video does not show a wooden cabin, which shows on Airhistory.net (HERE & HERE), photos by Ralph M. Pettersen, dated 12May2019. There's a wooden cabin now next to it (which does not show on the video). Its history cab be read on my Photos by Friends & Guests #54, with links to elsewhere on my website |
Super Guppy (#1) F-BTGV at Bruntingthorpe sadly beyond saving, being scrapped on site; by Ken Miller/FB, Dec.2020 History and details of F-BTGV on my report UK2003, a.o. a visit to Bruntingthorpe. |
George John Tonking shared this photo on Facebook's Aviation Wrecks and relics in Dec.2020.
![]() John wrote: "Benoni, South Africa C47/Dc3. Photo 17Dec20".
A 2005 by Michal Petrykowski is shown on my website HERE.. From my (RL) files: SEE MY GALLERY OF VINTAGE TRANSPORT PLANES ON 'OFF-AIRPORT' LOCATIONS |
In 2003 I photographed C-123K N98
(ex/ 55-4548) in Alaska and Charles E. McCormick responded with this photo.
![]() McCormick wrote (Dec.2020): "From Bernie Weisz Facebook Page. This image was made 18NOV70 while I was waiting for a flight out of Pleiku. C-123K Tail Number 55-4548". Photo by Robert Fulwiler. Charles E. McCormick (Major AD, AUS Retired) also wrote: "I worked for Vinnell Corporation at POW Main, Point Barrow in 1966 and was a member of D Company Eskimo Scouts (ANG) before I enlisted in the Army and went to Vietnam as a U.S. Army Warrant Officer Aviator in Dec 1968-Dec 1969. C-123 55-4548 is also discussed on my Q&A page. |
Ron sent me photos of an unidentified Convair T-29 at San Jose, in Nov.1980.
I traced TI-ARN to its present location, a stripclub in town More on my Searchfor, how I reached a tentative conclusion for this (extensive) research
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Ron wrote: 'this part of a Convair at Fort Lauderdale with a weird tailnumber: VY-LLA; I don't think |
This was shared on Facebook, Nov.2020.
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Ralph Pettersen (of www.proplinerinfoexchange.com) wrote me in Dec.2020: "I reached out to an Australian contact, asking to confirm the Facebook report that the aircraft is airworthy, and he received the following response from HARS: "We haven’t set a target date for the DC-4 to fly and there’s still lots to do on the aeroplane before this happens." |
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