Mon Mar 07, 2011 5:33 pm
Tue Mar 08, 2011 5:31 am
whistlingdeathcorsairs wrote:none can be saved?
These were taken at the Ephrata, WA, airport in Spring 1991. They are the fuselages of PBY-6A N2886D/BuNo 64034 and PBY-5A BuNo 33979. N2886D was destroyed in a 1985 accident while scooping water fighting a fire. Both hulks were owned by Bob Schlaflei, who operated a half dozen PBYs in Eastern Washington as air tankers during the 1980s.
As the post referring to my article on the Catalina Society website above shows, the identity of the Tauranga/Ephrata/Hemet hulk was established a while back although since the start of this original thread. To confirm, it is US Navy PBY-5A BuAer48334, more recently N74821 and N9535C.
Tue Mar 08, 2011 12:52 pm
whistlingdeathcorsairs wrote:none can be saved?
Tue Mar 08, 2011 8:25 pm
Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:28 am
David Legg wrote:whistlingdeathcorsairs wrote:none can be saved?
Mark - I assumed the message above was related to the hulk shown on Ruud Leuw's website (PBY-6A C-GFFJ) and mentioned in Kenny Chapman's post and not the various ones that you usefully updated us all on. That being the case I think it is unlikely to be saved as it is pretty inaccessible and due to crash damage is incomplpete anjway. It's been there since 1981 and I suspect that is where it will stay.
Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:45 am
Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:25 pm