Bali Visit

Following up on my tour of the dead airfields of Vanuatu
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?109785-Vanuatu-visit
we have recently visited the Indonesian island of Bali.

There is very little in the way of WW2 aviation relicis in Bali.
Largely, the Japanese walked in with very little opposition from the Dutch in 1942 and remained there until the VJ day surrender. Some American bombing took place, apparently more out of boredom than anything else.

Thus there is little in the way of airfields.
The Ngurah Rai International Airport was established by the Dutch as Tuban airfield in 1931 and has grown over the years to accomodate medium-sized jet aircraft. There seems to be little in the way of non-scheduled aerial activity here.
If you do visit, the current Denpasar airfield is a hell-hole, with arriving passengers liable for up to two hours to get through the system. Theft is rife.

Bali was promised to be a non-aviation trip, with more chances of meeting fellows like this rather than things with wings

Of course inevitably my ever-sensitive antenna found two aviation artifacts:

Outside a military barracks adjacent to the airfield is a Harvard up a pole.

Carring AURI markings as B-427, this is supposed to be a Noorduyn AT-16-ND Harvard IIB but somehow doesn’t look quite right to me

A bit later, while traveling through an industrial area on the existing main road (not the about to be opened new motorway) from Denpasar to Nusa Dua I spotted a white fin looming among the shacks. Further investigation revealed an apparantly externally complete Boeing 737 sitting in someones front yard.

As it was surrounded on three sides by high security walls and protected by a locked steel gate, my view of the aircraft was limited, but I could see no external markings.

It is obviouly not the Lion Air example that recently ditched, as that had to be cut up for removal.
I have found a note on the WIX board that refers to ” . . . a B737-230A , the aircraft had a nose gear collapse in Nov 2007 and had a slight bend in the fuselage which made it uneconomic to repair so we bought it for component salvage in Oct 2008 from the insurance company and then sold the remains to a scrap dealer” so may be that is the one.
No apparent actual scrapping work taking place at the time I saw it.

Apart from the above, there is a recently constructed GA strip at Wisnu Airfield, also referred to as Buleleng Airport, where a flying school trains students on 172s.