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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. |
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Martin Forster provided a follow up to my 'find' at El Mirage (Aviation Warehouse) in 2018: "Managed to get some photos from the yard owner of the Neptune 209, but didn’t help identify it. He did say he’d sell it for US$2000 within the US!"  More on this and much more on other vintage planes: CALIFORNIA 2018 |
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Sean Keating went to check a venue on my Off-Airport Gallery for its current status.  Sean: "Today (22Jan20) I visited Tulare,CA to confirm the existence of the Aero Dog T-29 as most websites show it as permanently closed. Well, the airplane still exists and the restaurant is now reborn as 'Flying Tacos'! For more follow the link! |
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Alfredo Rodriguez? shared some Convair images on Facebook:
"Convair 580 abandoned. Oro Negro airport (SVON/CBS) Cabimas, Zulia state, Venezuela. July 31, 2011."  I tried googling YV-2448 + YV-2446 + YV-2448C + YV-2446C: nil found. Fake registry? Same, no hits, for googling 'convair oro negro'. Hence a candidate for my Help Identify Plane Mysteries! |
 Fred Streep shared images of DC-6 HK-3530X (c/n 43672) in Puerto Colombia with me, after a visit on 21Dec2019. For more see my gallery Off-Airport Latin Americas. |
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Kenneth Swartz shared this photo with me of stored & derelict N287F 'Lynden Air Cargo' at Abbotsford.
The photo was taken on 21Aug06  I came across a tailsection at Red Deer in Sep.2019, which is probably what remains of N287F... See also the item on my Plane Identification Mysteries.
Ken spotted this Consolidated Vultee PBY-6A N9825Z in 2016, see also my US Northwest 2014 report!
 What a strange contraption on the cockpit, a searchlight..? |
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Dirk Septer shared this photo, Shorts SC-7-3M-400 Skyvan N80GB seen at Ft. Lauderdale Int'l Airport (FLL).
 Short Skyvan N80GB of GB AirLink, by Dirk Septer (2015) "Always thought those Skyvans to be somewhat odd but interesting. Any idea why their tails are always painted black or partially painted black?" EMAIL Dirk shared the following additional info: "c/n SH-1888 - built in 1971 for the Argentine Navy and has been with GB Airlink since 2003; GB Airlink is a small on-demand cargo operator based at FLL operating Shorts Skyvan and Beech 18 Turboliner aircraft, one of the latter also shown but only partially unfortunately. A few notes from my (RL) database: 'N80GB GB Airlink, Ft Lauderdale,FL. Reg'd 17Jan03. Picture in Propliner magazine No.129 (Winter 2012) flying
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On 05Jan2020 JoeJoe Prince visited Big Lake airport (Alaska) and came across some long-time
stored residents...
 Twin Beeches N888E and N8062H stored at Big Lake,AK. On Joejoe's gallery on my website you'll see some summer photos of these and details on these Beech C-45's. |
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Ken Swartz shared an
Grumman G-73 Mallard at Victoria IAP-YYJ - (Photo: Ken Swartz, 2007). A fitting addition to my gallery of Plane Indentification Mysteries! Bill Bailey provided the identity here: "N628SS c/n J-28, originally N2970, flown by VISS in the US Virgin Islands. It was heavily damaged by Hurricane Hugo in Sep.'89 and it never flew again, It drifted around to various owners until finally ending up in Victoria in March, 2006." More on Ken's gallery on my website Michael Prophet shared a photos of N628SS in better days, from his website www.MichaelProphet.com |
Kenneth Swartz sent me this Jan.2020 update, off to a good start! "Here's a photo I took of the DC-3 at Victoria IAP (YYJ) in August 2007, of DC-3 N877MG before its restoration.  More details on Ken's gallery on my website Douglas DC-3C (R4D-6) N877MG c/n 20806 is featured many times on my website: e.g. The DC-3 (page 2) +++ in 2010 with Sealand Aviation (incl interior) +++ at Flabob,CA in 2018 +++ Duxford UK 2019 for D-Day 75. |
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Jerry Vernon kindly forwarded (jan.2020) photos by Eric Lund and details of research into a number of DeHavilland bushplane wrecks which have surfaced on a farm along the Fraser river near Delta,B.C.  More on my Searching for Plane Identities (some of the wrecks here have been identified) |
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Ron Mak noted the updates on a ceased DC-6 'drug runner'in Mexico
and shared an earlier photo, of DC-6A TG-TAO. The entire story of DC-6A 'HK-8221X' (in fact HK-3627X) on my vintage propliners by Miguel Angel Rodriguez. Its present status and location: |
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Wayne Trylinski shared this on Facebook's 'Aviation Wrecks and relics' in Dec.2019; he added: 'C-46 crash at DEWLINE Station CAM 5, Mackar Inlet, NWT 1961.' No date of photo. No credit to photographer.
 I think I have it identified, see my Abandoned Plane Wrecks of the North Don McVicar, having earned his Private Pilot's License in 1936, was involved in aviation for over 60 years. He passed away 15Jan97. In 1982 wrote first novel THE GRASS RUNWAY which tells of how, in 1980, the combination of high OPEC oil prices, an unscrupulous aircraft broker, a coldhearted bank, and a bitching wife forced two honest pilots into a hazardous drug smuggling flight from Colombia S.A. to the U.S.A. MORE THAN A PILOT, published in 1986 tells of the struggles of his pioneering aviation company, World-Wide Airways Inc. Also gives fascinating accounts of flights accomplished by aviation giants of yesteryear. donmcvicar.com/bio I would also recommend the chapter on the DEW Line in Larry Milberry's Air Transport in Canada (Vol.1, Canav), which has extensive mention of Don McVicar plus a great deal of DEW Line aircraft on photos. |
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Neville Webb explored a crashsite of a Hawker Hurricane on Newfoundland.
 RCAF Hawker Hurricane 1359 crashed near Cochrane Pond, Newfoundland, on 15 October 1942. More on Neville's gallery on my website |
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Changes in Tucson's landscape of salvage yards...
 Anno 2018 the entire lot of Specialized Aircraft Maintenance, north of the road, has been cleared out. More details on my updated Tucson's Salvage Yards (2017). |
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Sean Keating visited Shafter,CA on 02Dec2019 and came across N396CG
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MORE VINTAGE PLANES BY KENNETH 'KEN' SWARTZ ON MY WEBSITE HERE.. Through Ken I received some great images by Gary Vincent of that fateful day (10Dec19):
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An update on a 2017 item of mine (Photos by Friends & Guests #47), by way of a post on Instagram
The Instagram post can be found on www.instagram.com/p/B5gy0ykB6R7/ 'aircraft adventures' A few more details on this here 'Spooky'. On FB's Vietnam War Flight Museum (seemingly a previous owner) one UPDATE 09DEC2019: C-47B sold to France Large (peculiar name?).
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Brady resident Karl Ritter has donating his 1945 DC-3 ‘Texas Zephyr’ to the Highland Lakes Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force. In July 2018, the Highland Lakes squadron’s beloved ‘Bluebonnet Belle’ crashed History by ATDB.aero online aviation database (Nov.2019): In 2014, the late Lt. Col. Dick Cole, the last surviving member of the Doolittle Raid on April 18, 1942, flew in the 'Texas Zephyr' and signed his name on the aircraft’s bulkhead. I visited Burnet in 2015 (MY REPORT) but 'Bluebonnet Belle' (N47HL, c/n 27203) was left behind at Oshkosh after the EAA Air Venture of that year due to engine problems. |
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Updated Ron Mak's gallery on my website with a fine batch of 1970s photos in Bolivia!  B-17 CP-891 at La Paz - by Ron Mak (1973) |
Andreas B. Morgner shared this photo with me recently (Oct.2019)
 Andreas wrote: "Thought of you when I came across this pic of the Nome, Alaska dump. Yes, this Beech C-45 was identified and features on my Mystery Planes gallery! |
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Mike Smyth sent me this photo with hope to get this Convair identified!
Some helpful information to determine a timeline of sorts: This is from the book The Convairliner Story by J.M.Gradidge (Air-Britain; 1997) So I searched ‘Las Vegas Express’ in ATDB.aero database and came up with:
operator: ‘$Fiction’, aircraft: T-29 (CV240)
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On a recent photo, published on Propliners Off-Airport Latin America,
I found that preserved DC-3 PT-KZF
('SERH') had one or both wings used from DC-3 PT-KYW (both stored for years at Fortaleza).  While I shared this 'find' with Alexandre Avrane (ATDB.aero online aviation database), he replied: "Wings from PT-KYW were removed in 2004 and apparently fitted to PT-KZF for reuse at Pacatuba. GPS for Barra Grande is 26 0 S 52 55 W. Visible are the 2 737s, 1 Hansa Jet (?) and fuselagse of PT-AOB, PT-KYW." |
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Matthew Harris of Cascade Aerospace confirmed to me the L.188 I photographed (CANADA 2019) is C-GYCG.
 Matthew sent me this photo (insert by me) and wrote: "You would be correct - Although the aircraft is now owned by Buffalo Airways" to my query whether this L.188 is C-GYCG. From a distance I did not have a good view. |
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On my Q&A-page I have an item on DC-3s stored at Fortaleza, Brazil at one time. This post by Ulrich 'Uli' Hoppe |
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Grabbed from Facebook (Bush Planes Alaska) as an update to my ... visit to Fairbanks
 DC-3 formerly owned by Roger Brooks, N95460, moved by road in Oct.2019 to Chena Marina (as per comment). N95460 is Douglas C-47A c/n 20190. I have recorded this DC-3 on various visit, se my 1995 REPORT, and my 2003 REPORT 'Bliss with Brooks'. Does this mean Roger Brooks boneyard is being cleaned out? EMAIL. |
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Rolf Larsson wrote me Oct.2019: "With reference to the tragic accident of N24DR (Photos by Friends & Guests #58) I am sending two pictures of this CV440 when it was on the Swedish register as SE-CCV and operated by Linjeflyg."  Rolf: "SE-CCV was originally flown by SAS as OY-KPD 'Ravn Viking' and sold to Linjeflyg, being ferried Oslo-Fornebu to Stockholm-Bromma on 20Nov1969. By that time I was a Linjeflyg co-pilot and when looking in my logbooks I can see that the first time I flew SE-CCV was on 13Dec1969, between Bromma and Ronneby as LF631. My last flight in SE-CCV was on 18Jun73, between Visby and Bromma as LF752. The last flight of SE-CCV in Linjeflyg service was flown on 02Jul73, between Visby and Bromma; total aircraft flying time after this flight was 34675.52 hours. It was sold to Brascan International Trading Ltd. and ferried Bromma-Reykjavik-Goose Bay-Toronto on 10-11 July 1973. Swedish registration was cancelled on 13Jul73 and registered CF-GLM in Canada. The Convair was a nice aircraft to fly, I flew it until I was transferred to the F.28 fleet and later to the Boeing 737; sad to see the accident of this fine aircraft!" |
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