work sent me up north and it always seems to be a good place for someone who loves old airplanes, thought I’ld see how you guys do without cheating like me and having a closer look.
This turned up in Iqaluit:(by the way I’m impressed that someone brought a vintage single engine plane across the vast nothingness of the north, braver than me…)
The next three are all in Resolute, info on one is easy to find on the web, the other two I’m only fairly sure about the types
wreck #1
#2 (no idea where the rest of it is)
#3 (this one will probably be pretty tough with these pictures but maybe someone’s got a keen enough eye)
Here’s a couple just for the heck of it, it’s neat to see these things are still hard at work here:
A wild guess at #3 (if its on its back) could be a C-119 flying box car???I have no idea what the rest are, and what is the first plane? Its a real looker…Harv
The first shots of the single engine are all yours. I’m guessing its Russian.
The big dead wing picture is the prize. There are at LEAST four but maybe a fifth and… engine mounts, on an un interrupted wing. What does that tell us?
Parasol, either up or down. Seaplane then. Japanese or USN? Mavis and Emily had four. Mariner and Catalina had two. Mars had four but I don’t think so here. Commercial job? Boeing 314.
I’ll mention I found a photo of #1 where the fuselage was still there, I was trying to find it again to double check that it was the same aircraft, but I’m pretty sure it was, so that wreck isn’t as grizzly as it appears which also makes it more difficult.
#3 looks like is was pointing in the direction of where I was standing and the port wing either flipped in the accident or had been since, it was alittle eerie standing there looking at these things that have sat here for years wondering what became of the men who were flying them, the third one had obviously been on fire, also sad in the fact that they’re all within a couple miles of the airport. It’s interesting to note that the rudder of the first one still flaps back and forth in the wind.
4 engines, which look to be low slung, looks like a twin-tail configuration, faded remnants of fin flashes on what appears an oval/elliptical shaped fin… If that kink in the port wing is meant to be there and not a result of the crash, I’d say a Lancaster or Lancaster derivative.
Nice thought, but it doesn’t look like any of them are crash sites or have damage from a crash. If they are, the evidence is well hidden from the years of exposure.
I knew the shiny single engine was a Spartan. They were built in Tulsa and there are a couple of examples (different types) in the Tulsa Air & Space Museum.
I’m going with my gut on a couple of the wrecks…
#3 looked like a B-26 to me, but it’s kinda hard to tell with no size references. As for it being a C-119, I say no because I haven’t found too many of those with 3-bladed props.
