Identify the Aircraft

[Stevieboy]

Pot Pourri!

Ich gehe aus, meinen Anorak zu polieren und jeder verbindet innen.

Dornier Do X it is.

Your turn SM.

[Saracenman]

schließlich! Danke Stevieboy; Ihre Vertretung war ich gestern Abend mit allen meinen erfolglosen Versuchen verwirrend!

back in a while...........

[Spitfire]

Come on SM - Stevieboy's getting withdrawal symptoms

[Saracenman]

oops - sorry i forgot

ok then - what's this?

[Stevieboy]

There is a limit to the number of times I can plant a DC3 in San Francisco Bay don't you know.

[Spitfire]

Damned if I know Looks like a 4 engine with very long nacelles which could mean turbo prop - or it could be a sneaky 3 engine and that one is on the nose

[Stevieboy]

Methinks that maybe young Helen should answer this one.

[Dan4th]

Is it by any chance Swiss?

And is the second prop in the background
on another aircraft?

D.

[Saracenman]

both props on the same a/c D4th - and no it's not Swiss

[Spitfire]

So with references to Helen is it a 3 turbo engine DC3 of some kind ... I have found one but its not that colour

Common SM before this drops off the current posts list - or Stevieboy put us out of our misery

[Saracenman]

ok, yes it's a DC3 - but which one?

sm

[Spitfire]

Well the only one I can find which even remotely fits is this one ...

Surely from the angle of the photo it HAS to be a tri motor and those are definitely turbo props.

[Saracenman]

spot on Spitfire - that is the very same "Conroy Tri Turbo 3", although that's how she looked in the 1980s

this is how she looked in 1978 at Farnborough...



strange aeroplane - i have no idea what happened to her - the most recent picture i could is from 1987.

your go

sm

[Spitfire]

Didn't think it was that one as I said earlier as it was the wrong colour and it had a bad cockpit fire in 1986 - and the exhausts were wrong


Anyway if I'm right I've got nothing ready - back soon ...................

OK - got one ......... what's this ..............

[Saracenman]

99.9% certain that it IS the same a/c Spitfire, as N23SA is listed as being the only one.

not sure who's date is wrong, but this picture...



is captioned as, "Santa Barbara - Municipal (SBA / KSBA) California, June 4, 1987"

and the exhausts look identical to me

nasty fire though - surely a complete write-off

sm

edit - oh and...


will be the Short SA4 Sperrin i believe!

[Spitfire]

I give up at this game

Your go again

Oh and BTW - half way down this page http://www.air-and-space.com/conroy.htm is where I got my info.
And near the bottom of this page pics of the rotting hulk http://www.douglasdc3.com/polair/polair.htm

[Saracenman]

very confusing Spitfire - the stripped a/c has the same reg as the one i posted (N23SA), and that link is interesting as it only seems to refer to it in the singular, suggesting that it was the only one produced???

but the picture you posted showing the fire damage would suggest that it was repaired AFTER being wingless in the desert - before the fire!

as for the Sperrin - I'm usually crap at this game - i know very few a/c but that's one of the very very few that i could name at a glance!

sorry!

here you go then - what's this little oddball?

[Mackrick]

Verhees Delta aircraft ?

[Spitfire]

Blimey - Mackrick has it already



I wouldn't have know where to start

[Mackrick]

[Saracenman]

bloodyhell Mackrick - how did you get that so quickly?

and after all the effort i went to airbrushing out the reg!

over to you mate

[Mackrick]

I have actually seen it at an air show I went to so it was pure luck .. back in a second with a new one..

ok try a harder one

[Mayfly]

[quote="Saracenman"]very confusing Spitfire - the stripped a/c has the same reg as the one i posted (N23SA), and that link is interesting as it only seems to refer to it in the singular, suggesting that it was the only one produced???

but the picture you posted showing the fire damage would suggest that it was repaired AFTER being wingless in the desert - before the fire!

does this shed any light SM

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N23SA.html

[Saracenman]

blimey - must've been fixed after the fire then!

Status
Certification Class: Experimental
Certification Issued: Unknown
Air Worthiness Test: 1990-02-13
Last Action Taken: 1993-05-03
Current Status: Revoked Enforcement

ta Mayfly

as for Mackrick's new piccie - god knows, but is it...

a) a jet?

b) Murkin?

sm

[Mackrick]

Ok its British and a Jet

another clue