Dumped Airliners

The low wing one seemingly without a tail seems to have an eliptical wing shape. Nose is wrong for P47… Mmmmmmm. Couldn’t be anything Supermarine…Nope, can’t see enough.

Wrecks identities

What an amazing shot. The airframes look complete and the DC-3/C-47’s have their engines on. Anyone know what the 3 big singles or twins are on the left of the group?

Thanks for that info T-21. What’s your source ?

DC-6B N8CA c/n 44102, C-47 XA-JIH,XB-RTC and XB-NAE.

Whilst I was doing a search for the point of departure of an ATR42 that sadly hit high ground today, I noticed these airframes at Merida in Venezuela;

Both these sets of satellite piccies are from Merida MEXICO not Venezuela right?

The big one is defintely a Douglas quad – from Google Earth I make the dimensions to be wingspan approx 118ft, length approx 104ft. This matches well with a Douglas DC-6B, span 117ft 6in, length 105ft 7in (from airliners.net). The DC-7’s range in length from 108ft 11in to 112ft 3in so this is probably a DC-6 rather than DC-7.
“OldProps” lists no less than 6 DC-6’s extant in Mexico – but non listed as at Merida.:confused:

This one looks promising if still extant:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Pescamex/Douglas-C-118…-Liftmaster/1041563/L/

The DC-6 could be XA-LAU which would have been there from 1967.:confused:

http://aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=MID

Registrations?

No, their identities, I can tell their (probable) Douglas connection?

So sad to see fine airframes rotting in the undergrowth!

What was their history, how have they survived?

Do you mean the types or the actual registrations? The twins are pretty obviously C-47s, and the bigger four-engined machine looks like a DC-6 or even DC-7 (but I wouldn’t swear to it). Haven’t a clue as to the registrations, though.