Hi Pondskater,
Thanks for a very detailed and helpful post. I will most likely be buying some “Conservation by Design” materials soon.
I have my eye on some pictures currently on Ebay, so hopefully I can start my collection soon. Otherwise I will be hitting the flea markets this spring.
Thats Wildfire….
Very close Wout, its the Equator P-420 (slightly bigger with retractable gear). However, its so close I consider it guessed.
http://www.equatorair.de/hist.htm
You have control.
Right then, next mystery!

The unusual tail looks like a Borgward “Kolibri”, but I have never seen it “dressed”. The pics I have are with exposed structure.
However, I venture to guess its a Borgward “Kolibri”.
Perhaps not a scrapyard, but these C-47 were stored on Værløse airbase in the early 80’s.
K-687 (42-100737) might have seen D-Day action, as it was attached to 9th Air Force in march 1944. As it took part in the filming of “A bridge too far” it might actually have taken part in that action twice (I like to think so). I can with great joy inform, that the aircraft is now gloriously restored and displayed in the Danish Aircraft museum.
http://flymuseum.dk/
K-681 (42-23802) is currently on display in Helsingør Technical museum, with its former civilian identity “Svend Viking”.
http://www.tekniskmuseum.dk/





He didn’t get to keep the helmet.
Welcome to the forum Ventourbob, just so you know: Anneorac is a resident prop expert 🙂
Yes, it was correct.
The flying boat was a Macchi C100. Not sure who gets the honour, as Pagen01 simply guessed “Macchi” and JA simply guessed “MC100”.
None of the answers are 100% correct, but they are not wrong either……anyway, it seems Ant harrington jumped the queue and progressed the game for us 😀
Here is the next:

Yes, there are more differences than the gear doors, but they were easy to see on your picture. Weight and horses don’t show well on pictures:D
I was pretty sure i recognised this AC, as its still flying. The gear doors slimmer on the H model, so I took it from there.
On a side note: Your picture is named t44-64314.gif, which sort of gives away the identity 😉
Do you need anything closer than P-51H?
Look at some of these both scrapyard pics and recovery restorations!
http://rnzaf.proboards43.com/index.cgi?board=Airshows&action=print&thread=6514
WOW! There are some fantastic pictures on that page.
Always strikes me as odd, that where-ever they are recovering wrecks from, there is always instruments missing. Even if the AC has been lost in the jungle for 60 years…;)