Pacific Wrecks Forum

Here's the long-promised photo from The Saga of CNAC #53 . If you look closely, you can see that although the major parts are in approximately their correct position they don't seem to be connected very well. The wing is at an angle to the fuselage and farther back than it should be, and the tail co...

I've been wondering about that. This was, at one time, widely considered to be the most intact wreck on the Hump. Now it seems to be missing all sorts of pieces, and not small ones; the outer wings and the fuselage being two. There's a first-person account of the crash and the walk out by the surviv...

Hi Kai, Well, drat. I was afraid it was too good to be true. However, we still have the aircraft cards coming from the gentleman at Accident Reports (I think he pulls them from the National Archives). Even if they prove nothing new I think we're reasonably certain (say, 90%) this is a CNAC C-53. Fac...

Based on the number on the tail, I would say this is 42-1589* (the * indicating an unkown digit). I've checked Joe Baugher's site and came up with the following: 42-15870/15894 : Douglas C-53-DO : c/n 7387/7411. His site lists the C-53 as "Paratroop transport version of C-47. Fixed Skytrooper metal...

Colin C Tigwell wrote:The photos you have shown so far indicate C47 family, it is not by the look of it from the B24 family.

Regards

Col

Right. Check the 4th post down.

Hi Andy, I do have a couple of photos of the part with the serial number that Kai didn't publish. Unfortunately they're multi-meg monsters. Here is a smaller version: http://pages.prodigy.net/michaelriffe/images/tailsmall.jpg If you zoom in past the "9" you can see what appears to be the bottom of a...

Hi mate Do you have any pics or parts to help? The surviving parts may still have their identifying numbers that were unique to each aircraft type. Cheers Andy Yes, a few: they're at http://www.flickr.com/photos/harshmanrai/sets/72157594218426486/. They did find a part described as a "wing" with "2...

Hi! Does anyone have info (serial numbers, accident reports) on B-24s or C-109s that might have crashed on the Hump? A friend found the remains of an aircraft that may be a B-24 or C-109 in a very remote part of India - above the treeline, near Burma - and I'm trying to identify it. I've looked ever...