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  • in reply to: Mystery wreck. Can anyone identify this aircraft? #416789
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    Two blades if memory serves. Tricky to see though, as the lower nose is rammed into the seabed.

    in reply to: Mystery wreck. Can anyone identify this aircraft? #416794
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    Kenneth, it seems you were spot on. Thanks everyone – I just received the following from someone at navionx.com:
    “It appears that there may have been a center post in the windshield, which would make it a G model Rangemaster.”
    So…. confirmed then.

    in reply to: Mystery wreck. Can anyone identify this aircraft? #416908
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    Okay, I’m getting more and more convinced that this is a Rangemaster. On examining the photos closer I think I can make out the profile of the two nose lights just below the air intake apertures on the cowling. They’re almost completely buried in the rocks, but I think that is what they are. Clearest is on the bottom right image.

    in reply to: Mystery wreck. Can anyone identify this aircraft? #416921
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    Thanks Al, that’s actually me on another forum. (At the time I was looking for a WW2 era aircraft.) My daughter’s memory is not photographic however – and I recall the interior being pretty trashed and overgrown. Wish I had sketched it out at the time. If anyone out there can add any more detail about this wreck it would be most welcome.

    in reply to: Mystery wreck. Can anyone identify this aircraft? #416929
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    Thanks, best fit yet! I think it looks most like this model – G I0520 (it has a division between the front windscreens, which some seem to lack.)
    http://www.navionforsale.com/gallery/
    Only reservations are – size of the first windows on either side seem a bit larger than on the wreck pictures (it could just be foreshortening perspective through the water though.) The door profile certainly fit the bill. I have pinged the pictures off to http://www.navionx.org Maybe they can give me a model/year. How would I go about getting an accident report from Greece I wonder?

    in reply to: Mystery wreck. Can anyone identify this aircraft? #416933
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    Piper are singularly unhelpful…..

    “Dear Sir: Very sorry, but the photos are not clear enough to determine what aircraft this may be. Piper Aircraft does not always get accident reports on aircraft that are International registered and there is not enough information to investigate further.

    Regards,
    Customer Services
    Piper Aircraft, Inc.”

    Nobody wants to talk about some wrecked product I suppose.

    JBoyle,I had a look some Meyers 200 images and it is similar in some ways, but this wreck goes pretty much straight back at the spine, where the Meyer has a sort of bubble cockpit. And as you say …. door on the wrong side.

    in reply to: Mystery wreck. Can anyone identify this aircraft? #417046
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    Thanks TonyT, it does look much more like the Pa32-60 or Saratoga than anything else I have seen. Door is definitely on the left though…. I snorkelled around it and can confirm that the images are not flipped. I reckon even with the cockpit roof crushed down a bit – that couldn’t really explain the differences between the window division shapes. The front windscreen panel shapes do come to a kind of point at the bottom outside corner, and window divider elements are fairly wide too.
    True, I have become obsessive about identifying this aircraft – and it is driving me nuts.
    A proper Mystery.

    in reply to: Mystery wreck. Can anyone identify this aircraft? #417052
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    Thanks everyone. Kenneth yes, that’s what I thought (just reviewed an image search on Piper PA24.) Door is on the wrong side? Also the window configuration isn’t like any of the Piper images I found. The divider between the front screen and the first side window is an inverted triange shape. Scratching my head still……

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