Ice Pilots 10A Salvage

[Doug Ledlie]

Interesting clip...gives a good feel for scale of the plane and parts (for those of us with no idea).  There is also a full episode where they recovered the tail for a memorial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpYlPyMglX8

[Andrew M McKenna]

Not clear just how legal all that was.

I'm pretty sure Ric has been to that wreck.  Are we sure this is a 10A?  If the 10A and the 10E use the same gear, might be a good thing to go study since the fork, fender, and the worm gear are all there.

I couldn't find the tail recovery video, you might want to post that.

Thanks

Andrew

[Martin X. Moleski, SJ]

Not clear just how legal all that was.

As I understand it, the old man was the pilot who planted the Electra in the marsh in the first place.

I'll bet he is the owner of the wreck--or knows the owner of the wreck.

[John Wallace]

Some prior discussion of recovery of tail fin can found here:
http://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,1079.msg28083.html#msg28083

Ice Pilot's episode 12, season 4 can be found at:
http://www.history.ca/

Recovery of tail was labor of love for Buffulo's president, who learned from pilot who crashed electra. They recovered the tail for pilot's family.
   
A photo of the recovered tail at Buffalo Airways can be seen here (scroll down page to "remains of CF-HTV"):
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/others-septer2.htm
--also noted at Tighar forum, 4/18/13, in email from Gary Lang to Moleski:
http://tighar.org/smf/index.php?topic=993.45
 
The full history of the crashed lockheed can be found at:
http://www.1000aircraftphotos.com/Transports/ElectraB.htm
   It started out as a Lockheed 10-C for Pan Am according to the information there and was converted to a 10-A later in its life with a change of engines.
   
Tighar faq with notation about #1005 (which can be updated to note partial recovery of tail section and now landing gear.)
http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Forum/FAQs/existingelectras.htm

Probably should have put these links in my original post. Hope this helps for some who are not familiar.