Abandoned Aircraft Photos

[IBob]

 

Don't know how to blow it up. Original link is here. It's the only aircraft one in the set:

 

Altered states: the New East Photo Prize – in pictures

 

 

[cscotthendry]

Don't know how to blow it up. Original link is here. It's the only aircraft one in the set:

 

Altered states: the New East Photo Prize – in pictures

That looks like an Antonov AN-2

 

 

[cooperplace]

the international airport in Luanda, Angola, has a huge graveyard of plane wrecks:

 

Panoramio - Photo of Wrecks at Luanda Airport

 

The one and only time I flew in there, in 1994, about 6 wrecks lined each side of the runway, as if to warn pilots to not stuff up their landings. Apparently they've been cleaned up now. It's a good place to avoid.

 

 

[bull]

Does anyone know the location of the Catalina photo. It looks a bit arid.Cheers, Willie.

Suadi arabia I think , it was fitted out as a flying caravan with luxury interior and was on a world tour or something . They had landed to overnight somewhere and wher fired on by arabs and abandoned as unable to takeoff because of damage evidently ??

 

 

[bexrbetter]

Not quite abandoned, but a lot of Chinese planes put on displayed are not overly cared for either.

 

Spotted this group of Nanchang Y5's, (Chinese built Antonov AN2s), today at a flight training university, along with a solitary French Socata Tobago 4 seater ...