Abandoned Airplanes: Southern Arizona, Season 2, Episode 3

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Publicado 2020-12-07
On this episode of Abandoned Airplanes we travel to three non-towered airports in the Phoenix-Tucson area of Southern Arizona. We come across the shocking burned remains of a Cessna 414A, find an Ameriflight boneyard, discover the mother load of Lockheed C-130 parts, along with many other interesting finds.

Please help us find the history on these aircraft and hopefully help find new homes for the restoration and return to flight! We need your help!

Aircraft in this episode & viewer submitted details:

Cessna 414A - Hangar fire (Ref: L. Portouw)
Diamond DA-40 - Was removed from Benson by a flat bed truck (Ref: L. Portouw)
Luscombe 8A -
Douglas DC-3 (N34AH) -
Lockheed C-130 (N119TG) -

Piper PA-31s (N27426, N27677, N59820) - N59820 flown by Ellis Chernoff both in scheduled passenger service, charter, and cargo for Air Carolina. She was then known as "Carolina One"

C-119 Flying Boxcar (N15501) - manufactured by Fairchild Aircraft Company in 1968 and was formerly owned by Hawkins & Powers of Greybull, Wyoming. Hawkins and Power's, once renowned for their aerial firefighting aircraft, flew N15501 to Africa to film the opening sequences of the 2004 remake of the film Flight of the Phoenix. Three other ex USMC C-119Fs were used in various wreck scenes. (Thanks to Kevin Hedspeth)

The C-119 Flying Boxcar (N15501) has the logo painted on of the fake 'Amacore Oil' company from the movie, "Flight of the Phoenix" (2004). That plane was last flown ~2007?

The [2004] film is a remake of the 1965 film of the same name, both based on the 1964 novel The Flight of the Phoenix, by Elleston Trevor, about a group of people who survive an aircraft crash in the Gobi Desert and must build a new aircraft out of the old one to escape. It stars Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese Gibson, Miranda Otto and Hugh Laurie. (Thanks to Emmanuel Goldstein)

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Todos los comentarios (21)
  • @lenmilbyer3461
    I rode along with 30 other Marines in a C-130 from K-Bay Hawaii to Chu Lai VN. Sat on a sling seat with a jeep bouncing against my knees the entire way. Never once over all that water did I feel fear. Those engines lulled me to sleep and kept me safe. Great plane, Great pilots.
  • @elijahwoodward4242
    The other aircraft (the C-123, DC-3, etc...) at Buckeye are privately owned by a collector who has been in discussions with the City of Buckeye to open a possible air museum at the airport. If you go out there early on a Saturday and bring a few dollars for a donation, you can get a tour inside the hangar from the extremely nice caretaker who has a ton of cool and crazy stories. The good folks at Buckeye Skydive also know the folks over there and they're all good people. Absolutely amazing history tucked away in there.
  • @bdr3125
    Hawkins and Powers was an aerial firefighting company they used to contract bombers to the North Carolina forestry service where my father was a seat pilot and a lead plane pilot and he also flew the support plane witch was a DC-3 I remember in the late 70s and early 80s the bombers that came here from Hawkins and Powers was b-17s they had the only still flying pb4y i uesd to play in it and still have pictures of it sitting on the ramp in Kinston NC they used to bring cases of Coors beer to the guys at the forestry serves every year when they would come, it was a dream growing up around all these great airplanes and all the amazing pilots like my dad
  • @geraldmartsy2165
    Juan Browne from Blancolirio is the guy to ask about Luscombe quirks and features!
  • @57629589
    Most of Hawkins and Powers aircraft were sold off years ago. My son and I visited the Greybull airport just before the auction. We were given permission to climb on anything we wanted. 119's, KC 97's, A couple of Privateers one that has now been restored. It was airplane lovers heaven!
  • @ellischernoff8603
    I flew N27677 when it was brand new with a plush executive interior. I also flew N59820 both in scheduled passenger service, charter, and cargo for Air Carolina. She was then known as "Carolina One"
  • @indyscubadiver
    The 414A used to belong to my family, this happened LONG after we sold it.. no idea what happened, but it makes me physically sick to see our old bird in that condition.
  • @joestephan1111
    My father flew C-130s in & out of every dirt landing strip in Vietnam so it's sad for me to see them all cut up.
  • @bikepig13
    The PBY is the one used in Aways the A-26 that Richard Dreyfuss flew was also there at one time. The C-119 was used in the remake of flight of the Phoenix
  • @pwrplnt1975
    Arizona definitely has some badass aircraft boneyards! I'd love to walk through some of the larger ones!
  • @edilbertosantana8307
    Great CONTENT. Very Nice Thanks. I have being flying a DC 3 in 1958 from North East Brazil to Rio ...and a Constellation. I love this VIDEO....-- From Sweden.
  • @besiktasim81
    From Austria , i have been there for my flight training and i love it. Great Content !
  • @jonb6417
    Wow! A DC3! Ever since I learned to fly it has been my dream to fly a DC3.
  • @gb9926
    For the diamond DA20 The main landing gear touched down on the runway surface first and as soon as the nose lowered, they heard a loud noise. The PUI held the control stick aft in an attempt to keep the nose up as the airspeed was slowing, but they soon heard the strut scraping along the runway.