Nicolas Duprey & Flo Thibeaux - Plaine Des Gaiacs

Nicolas Duprey & Flo Thibeaux Plaines Des Gaiacs

Plaine Des Gaiacs

Plaine des Gaiacs Airfield is around 300KM from Noumea, just before the village of Pouembout, today no planes use this airfield. We have seen a New Zelander Lockeed Hudson wreck, and a queue of a B-25 Mitchell.

There is also a plane cemetery where there are a lot of plane parts, but it is hard to identified them, we think there are B-25, C-47 or B-17 parts and the rest of a little monoplace plane, perhaps a reconnaissance one. There are hundred of coca cola and beer bottles! We have found a lot of old installations even the toilets! This airfield are very large.

Send you the photos of the toilets and of a big disharge About pdg, we have found some cal 30, 50 and 20mm cartidges cases, there are a lot everywhere around the airfield.

B-25D-5 "Dittum-Dattum" Serial Number 41-30073

Lockheed A-28 Hudson Serial Number NZ2023

Unidentified Liaison Plane

Aircraft Bone Yard
Bits and pieces at the airfield. In the planes cemetery A few month before our trip a little forest fire have burn all of the vegetation on the cemetery, that is why the ground is black of the photos.


Rear end of B-25 landing gear nacelle that we found.	"cyclone" motors, do you know what planes used this type of motors?	We think that it is the protection of B-25's nose side machine gun.	Part of B-25 nose canopy?

End of a B-25	Landing gear door (nacelle left), Nicolas have find the assembly plate with the date 1941.	End of a landing gear nacelle of a B-25	A strange part of 5 meters long who have no windows. Perhaps it was a roof , could you identify it?

We think that it is C47 windows.	We think that it is a C-47's wing where one of the motors attach.	A left wing of a B-25.	A fin of a B25, you can see the number 3 on it.

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