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Post by billsamuels on May 26, 2022 9:55:12 GMT
Morning chaps, Well it’s nearly 2 weeks after our return from the USA and I’m still no where close to completing my log… Anyway, feel like a break so here’s the first… As you will all know, my technical knowledge of laptop/photography is about Grade Z, on the Pygmy scale… But hope this works. Dean and Kevin had been to Kenmore a couple of years ago so I was extremely grateful that they didn’t mind in taking me, for my first visit… What a great place and the people who run it are all extremely friendly and very accommodating.  N9766Z Beaver U-6A Kenmore Air.  N1018F Beaver U-6A Kenmore Air.  Whilst no reg was showing, we found C-FFZM on the tag in the cockpit - still unconfirmed…  N548GT Turbo Beaver.  N1455T Turbo Beaver Kenmore Air.  N9815G Cessna 172.  Both of these left while we were there… Beautiful sight and sound.  N9744T Turbo Beaver Kenmore Air. I’ll load some more later… Bill |
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Post by billsamuels on May 26, 2022 10:19:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2022 11:07:32 GMT
 Great pictures Bill, getting you in the mood for Lake Winnebago at Oshkosh- thanks for sharing.  Happy Days Bob 
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Post by davebasing on May 26, 2022 14:51:07 GMT
When he was at Kenmore, Bill sent me a photo of his group of 3 in front of Beaver N9744T, which appears in his excellent floatplane set, and is officially c/n1692. I replied to him at the time that this aircraft is a bit of a mystery ship.
On 13 January 1975 c/n1692 (when registered as N1944) disappeared on a 30 minute flight from Tenakee to Juneau in Alaska. The pilot and 4 passengers remain officially missing and the FAA records still show the aircraft as missing, their official report being totally inconclusive due to lack of the wreck. Some 14 years later c/n1692 suddenly appeared again when registered with the FAA as N9744T. This was supposedly after the wreck had been recovered from the sea and rebuilt. One would have thought that the discovery would have been reported at least in the local Alaskan papers, with some mention of the occupants, but nothing seemingly has ever appeared. The thought at the time was that the aircraft had probably hit a mountain and been buried in snow, the pilot (while highly experienced with almost 10,000 hours and over 800 on Beavers) perhaps crucially did not hold an instrument rating. If it did indeed crash in the water however then that theory was wrong. So, did it really crash and if not where was it for the intervening years and, if it did (which seems almost certain), then why was the apparent later discovery never newsworthy, were the occupants remains not found inside, and why didn't the FAA/NTSB reopen the crash investigation once there was a wreck to work on? Or is N9744T totally unrelated to c/n1692 and that c/n was used for some reason when the aircraft was put together from bits of other cancelled Beavers. This would not be unusual and has happened with several other Beavers albeit that they usually (as with Spitfires here!) took on the identity of one of the bits used, not matter how small (although the FAA did actually change the c/n of one such Beaver and gave it a totally new and out of sequence c/n when they inspected the finished aircraft). Perhaps interestingly, 1692 is the highest c/n of the original Beaver production. Did someone decide to give, whatever N9744T really consists of, an unused c/n (perhaps 1693) and it got transcribed wrongly somewhere along the line. Someone must know, but personally I remain to be convinced that N9744T has anything at all to do with the missing 1692.
Any Inuits or Sherlocks out there in AFA land?
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Post by graham on May 26, 2022 18:53:54 GMT
Fabulous Bill!
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Post by billsamuels on May 27, 2022 5:21:19 GMT
 Great pictures Bill, getting you in the mood for Lake Winnebago at Oshkosh- thanks for sharing.  Happy Days Bob  Always, Bob. Done Oshkosh twice mate, time will tell if a third one's possible. But this ‘West Coast’ trip was my 141st trip to the United States and it was a scorcher… Bill |
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Post by billsamuels on May 27, 2022 5:33:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2022 5:50:44 GMT
Great pictures Bill, and a fine picture of a trio of enthusiast's. 141 times to the States Wow!!! thought I had done well with mid twenties. Ref Oshkosh my beloved gave me a pass out to go next year but it is our thirtieth wedding anniversary so we will be going somewhere else instead. I did mention us both going to Oshkosh but I got the look and that was enough. But I am looking to going the year after next (2024) when the mortgage is paid. Has always been on my bucket list- but have never got round to it. But I will have to do a bit of training to get myself fit before I go. Finger crossed. Happy Days Bob
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Post by graham on May 27, 2022 8:50:31 GMT
Great shots Bill.
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Post by billsamuels on May 27, 2022 10:53:34 GMT
Just a few more shots…    Plus a couple in storage…  Hope you’ve enjoyed seeing a few sea planes. Apart from the Cessna at BBS, the Catalina’s at Duxford and Lelystad and the Lake Como Sea Plane base, virtually all of my sea plane sightings have been from North America… Go quite a lot more to share but that’s it for now… Bill |
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Post by deanoitfc on May 28, 2022 16:02:09 GMT
Hi Bill
it was a pleasure.
We knew that you would love it there and all the other places we went in Seattle
Seattle is really up there as one of the great cities to visit.
Deano
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