Treasure Hunting in Kingman, AZ.

[TAdan]

I've visited Kingman twice in the past few years (2004 and 08 ) to visit friends and I really had to fight the urge to run off into the desert with a shovel

I visited the airport briefly a few years back (04) and saw the old tower, the plaque and some pictures hanging up in the airport office. I also saw an OD green T-28 out on the ramp.

[old iron]

I remember driving past what must have been the Kingman boneyard when I was a kid, in the mid 1960s. What I remember is miles and miles or airplanes going all the way to the horizon.

Kevin

[Matt Gunsch]

I remember driving past what must have been the Kingman boneyard when I was a kid, in the mid 1960s. What I remember is miles and miles or airplanes going all the way to the horizon.

Kevin

Kingman was closed down by then, it might have been Litchfield NAS, in Goodyear AZ.

[old iron]

Yea, that could well be the case (Litchfield). Somewhere between Phoenix and Tucson on west side of road. What I do remember were mostly jet fighters. I wonder if those memories contributed to my airplane interests today?

Kevin

[RickH]

That would have been Litchfield. Kingman is out in the middle of nowhere central closer to the CA border.

[Matt Gunsch]

Yea, that could well be the case (Litchfield). Somewhere between Phoenix and Tucson on west side of road. What I do remember were mostly jet fighters. I wonder if those memories contributed to my airplane interests today?

Kevin

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... litchfield

[GARY HILTON]

If you go there with a metal detector, you are going to go nuts...you'll be getting almost a solid signal from all the rusted iron in the ground...if you set the discriminator on a lot of lower end metal detectors, you'll find that you will still get a signal from the thousands of small non-ferrous metals in the ground.....washers, nuts, cotter pins...etc....more fun chasing the rattle snakes.

[Django]

Mike Kellner has some Kingman artifacts on display at his shop with the B-17 restoration. IIRC, they just found them lying on the ground. I thought I had a pic, but I couldn't find it.

[RobC]

I'm sure Gary is right about the metal detector. I was there 3-4 years ago and there is all kinds of stuff on the ground. Walk south between the parking lot and the fence along the runway and just start kicking up dirt. I found a radio intercom face plate that was mangled and rusty, but still readable, along with some other recognizable bits. Funny enough, same thing happened a few weeks ago at Pima. I tripped over a piece of metal out where all the big planes are, and we dug with our feet until we got it out. It had a Boeing part number on it and turned out it was from a B-29. Of course, none of this stuff is useful, but it is rather a thrill to find.

[tom d. friedman]

there are alot of flying kitchen appliances out there......... very sad.