I see a Gooney Bird (C47/DC3) in the green space between the "3-mile south" building and its parking lot. Apparently a monument or museum piece, and I assume the "Foul" to which Scott refers. The three aircraft south of the highway, near the airport facilities, do not appear to have any access to the runway. Again, these may be monuments or museum pieces. It's interesting to note that the runway is aligned approximately 06/24. Usually runways are aligned to the predominate wind direction(s) in the area. Granted there may be other runways slightly out of the picture, so there may not be that much weight to my observation. The question now becomes what industry, perhaps foundry, would be associated with a Douglas aircraft. Though the Gooney may be there only because the plant owner liked it and it was available. This may be an industry dedicated to creating castings required for restoring "ancient" aircraft to operational condition. If this is so, then this would be in an area or country where aircraft restoration is popular and there is lots of money. Ya know, perhaps this place has something to do with the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, or the Davis-Monthan AFB aircarft bone-yard near Tucson, AZ.....?
Hytec, The one you see outside has these specs. The aircraft inside the building is much bigger! You are on to something though! DC-3 Specifications Type: Commercial Passenger First Flight: December 1935 Wingspan: 95 feet Length: 64 feet 5.5 inches Height: 16 feet 11 inches Weight: 16,863 pounds Capacity: Two Crew, 32 passengers Status: Display - Flyable
Got it!!!!! Spruce Goose Museum at..... 500 NE Captain Michael King Smith Way, McMinnville, Oregon Nice puzzle Scott....:thumbs_up: OOPS...you wanted the location of the scrap yard and foundry. That's a mile or so northeast of McMinnville, just off of Hwy 99W.
Dirty name.. Fokker... Dutch - but they wouldn't be making (many) aircraft in 1947... And then you post all the technical specs - wingspan, maiden flight, etc. Google loves that level of detail. Nice work hytec, the scrapyard is 45°13'39.78"N 123° 9'43.00"W So I guess I was a shade wrong about the shadows? "Highway 99W", so I guess it's not a freeway and therefore is allowed to do things like go around the little white boxes. Now to work out what those are?
They look like a bunch of small warehouses. About half of them appear to have loading platforms with box body trucks backed to them. But as to their purpose......? Though it is interesting that Hwy 99W was designed to split the eastbound and westbound lanes to go either side of them. Well, nobody ever claimed that Highway Engineers followed any design rules other than their own....:tb-wacky:
Scott, the following link is what did it for me, especially the 3/4 front view of the building at the bottom of the page. http://www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_artifacts/exhibits.html A good friend visited the museum last summer....I've never seen him so excited about anything before, he couldn't stop talking about it and showing his 100+ photos. I hope to get the chance to visit myself.
I remember when she was stored under a plastic enclosure. I'm so glad they got this piece of history preserved! That is one awesome machine!:thumbs_up:
