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The Fairy Lochs is a recent English name forNa Lochan Sgeireachand are a small group of freshwater lochans approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) south-east of the village of Badachro, near Gairloch in Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands. The lochans have become known as the 'Fairy Lochs' due to their proximity to 'Sìthean Mòr' which translates as 'Big Fairy Hill'.
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The shell is a left-over of its role in the movie "Sky Pirates" in 1984, at which time it was given its USAF markings as "6903077/B5". The remains of DC-3 VH-DAS was assembled into a crash diorama at Kuranda in July 1984. Originally named "Geronimo" by the US Air Force when it began service in November 1942, it was based at Mareeba during World War II. The aircraft wa...
Lockheed TV-2 Seastar No 136834, call sign Cherry Coke 185, crashed near Agua Cailente in Anza-Borrego State Park after it suffered from some type of engine failure. It's a US Navy TV-2 that took off from North Island NAS on September 22, 1958. Both pilots, Lt. A. H. Gonzalez and student Lt. H. C. Quitmeyer were able to eject with only minor injuries. The aircraft was...
Serigrafika Pubblicità is an italian graphic workshop in Sassari, Italy that has a reproduction of a F-102 crashing into the building. While it has the with wrong windscreen and insignia, it is a nice piece of art.
Recent archaeological expeditions to Midway and the surrounding islands have documented a number of sunken shipwreck sites but only three World War II era aircraft have been found to date, including a Brewster F2A-3 Buffalo.
The plane crashed into the lagoon at Midway Atoll while trying to land at Eastern Island in a squall in February of 1942. The pilot of the plan...
"Baby Sandy II" is a B-24J-1-CO Liberator serial number 42-73013. On December 29, 1943 took off from Tarawa Airfield (Hawkins) piloted by 1st Lt. Ivan M. Osborne on a bombing mission against Taroa Airfield in Maloelap Atoll. The weather was good. After releasing their bombs, the formation was attacked by over thirty A6M Zeros.
Here is a good story of what happened.
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Dive on the Sea Star Pacific, an old DC-3 about 100 meters off the lagoon side of the privately owned island of Enemanit in Majuro Atoll. It's necessary to pay for a private boat ride to island Enemanit. The plane is in about 12 meters of water.
A permit is required to visit the island. For that permit it’s necessary to apply in person at a trading company call...
The March Field Air Museum is an aviation museum near Moreno Valley and Riverside, California, adjacent to March Air Reserve Base.
The museum was founded in 1979 as March Air Force Base Museum. One of the first exhibits at the museum was a collection of art painted by Hazel Olson. It moved to a new location at the base's former commissary, where it reopened to the pub...
There is no airstrip on Big Diomede Island planes couldn't land, as there wasn't even a dirt runway, so the they dropped its cargo with a small parachute. On 13 June 1971 a Lisunov Li-2 belonging to the Soviet Border Troops crashed in the centre of the island. All four of the crew members were injured but survived and the green hull remains.
Lisunov Li-2T is a versio...
The Boeing Everett Factory is an airplane assembly facility built by Boeing in Everett, Washington, United States. It sits at the northeast corner of Paine Field and includes the largest building in the world by volume at 13,385,378 m3 (472,370,319 cu ft) and covers 98.7 acres (39.9 ha). The entire complex spans both sides of State Route 526 (named the Boeing Fre...
The remains of a Catalina flying boat that crashed on the slopes of Heiseabhal Beag in 1944 lie in a stream bed near the shore on Isle of Vatersay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
On a night training mission on September 15, 1944, a U.S. Army Corps B-24 Liberator Bomber crashed into a boulder field near the top of Humphrey’s Peak, killing the eight members of crew on board. The remote crash site was left essentially how it was when the crash occurred, with engine and wing parts scattered alomgst the bolders.
NOTE: Wreck is scattered, partly burned, and unmarked. Location of site is approx.
On July 5, 1943, a Consolidated B-24E Liberator crashed into Green Mountain on San Miguel Island, California, during low overcast conditions. The aircraft impacted the ground at cruising speed and the wreckage was widely dispersed and burned. Twelve airmen died in the crash. The accide...
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