Russian trainer L-29 tail section found in junk yard today

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:22 pm

I found this L-29 Delphin tail section today in a metal crushing yard. I ended up with about 8ft of fuselage that is not in these pictures. The remains are a corroded mess, but I thought it was just too neat to crush and it looked so sad laying there, so I took the pile home with me. Someone had butchered it pretty badly with a cut-off wheel. When I first saw it, I thought it was a MIG until further inspection popped that bubble. I know this isn't the usual warbird you see on here, but I thought some of you would get a kick out of ithttp://s1122.photobucket.com/albums/l523/cjasonbarnett/L-29%20Delphin%20Aero%20vodochody/

gary1954 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:26 pm

Cool Find, Very Cool :drink3:

The Inspector · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:34 pm

The horizontal will make a neat patio bartop maybe even remount it on a somewhat shortened vertical-interesting save!

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:59 pm

I was pondering trying to butcher it here and there and making it look like a Mig15. If I hang it up high enough it would be hard to tell.

WallyB · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:03 pm

L-29 and junk. Hmm... I know there's a punchline somewhere there. Can't quite put my finger on it.

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:29 pm

Yeah, I know it is a piece of junk- probably from the factory that way, but turning junk into something less of a pile of junk is what I love to do. I've seen them crush so much stuff out at the yard and I couldn't let this one make it into the dumpster. Some friends of mine work at the yard and they call me anytime something odd comes across the scales that I might like. I've seen WWII aircraft plane parts, the majority of a WWII Stewart tank, steam locomotive parts and all sorts of antiquities that you would think would never get scrapped, go across the scales. They should make a cable T.V. show about metal scrap yards. It becomes addicting quickly.

51fixer · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:44 pm

carlisle1926 wrote:

Yeah, I know it is a piece of junk- probably from the factory that way, but turning junk into something less of a pile of junk is what I love to do. I've seen them crush so much stuff out at the yard and I couldn't let this one make it into the dumpster. Some friends of mine work at the yard and they call me anytime something odd comes across the scales that I might like. I've seen WWII aircraft plane parts, the majority of a WWII Stewart tank, steam locomotive parts and all sorts of antiquities that you would think would never get scrapped, go across the scales. They should make a cable T.V. show about metal scrap yards. It becomes addicting quickly.

It does have an N number showing on the tail section.
N10747

The Inspector · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:18 pm

WALLYB,
You just need to clear your mind a bit. Go drive the VEGA Wagon around for a while and relax. :lol:

If you're very quiet, you can actually hear it rust!

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:42 pm

51fixer wrote:

carlisle1926 wrote:

Yeah, I know it is a piece of junk- probably from the factory that way, but turning junk into something less of a pile of junk is what I love to do. I've seen them crush so much stuff out at the yard and I couldn't let this one make it into the dumpster. Some friends of mine work at the yard and they call me anytime something odd comes across the scales that I might like. I've seen WWII aircraft plane parts, the majority of a WWII Stewart tank, steam locomotive parts and all sorts of antiquities that you would think would never get scrapped, go across the scales. They should make a cable T.V. show about metal scrap yards. It becomes addicting quickly.

It does have an N number showing on the tail section.
N10747

The N number is actually N1074V- something brushed against the V and smeared it. Up close you can see it is a V.

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:19 am

Here it is as it looked in 2006:

http://www1.airliners.net/photo/Aero-L- ... ee6d4841fa

Shay · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:28 am

According to the N Number search N1074V is still currently registered to a Red Star Aero LLC, out of Tipp City Ohio.

Very weird as I work in Tipp City :shock:

The only airfields I'm aware of nearby to Tipp are Waco (museum) up in Troy and Andy Barnhardt memorial in New Carlisle and of course DAY Intl.

BTW love your recovery vehicle.

Shay
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Semper Fortis

TAdan · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:20 am

Excellent find. Nothing that interesting ever turns up in the junkyards near me. :lol:

bluehawk15 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:42 am

Does anyone know what happened to it that caused it to end up being scrap?

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:54 am

Chris Brame wrote:

Here it is as it looked in 2006:

http://www1.airliners.net/photo/Aero-L- ... ee6d4841fa

Wow! I can't believe you found a picture of it! Amazing.

carlisle1926 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 12:16 pm

My theory so far as to why it was scrapped---- every part of this plane is severely corroded. I could see that before it was scrapped some of the castings had been cut out of it. I'm not sure if they were trying to remove the cast pieces because they thought that they could reuse them on an aircraft that they are restoring, or if the cast pieces were made of steel and that they were trying to remove all forms of steel to get a better price for the aluminum scrap. I think there is a club or something not terribly far from me in Galveston, TX that flies/has L-29s. Maybe this was a parts bucket for them?

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