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Norseman Crash Site - 2 Documentation of Additional Aircraft Wreckage Found 25 Jan 2018 |
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Norseman Crash Site - 2 Documentation of Additional Aircraft Wreckage Found 25 Jan 2018 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2018) |
| ~ If you have information about this crash, please send a Message or Email via our Guest Book (link on Home Page) ~ Ten days after the initial discovery of the Norseman crash site, I made a return visit. I had not found any records of a plane crash in this area, in either Norseman records or Military / FAA / NTSB records. I hoped to find the engine or firewall which would contain ID plates. While I didn't find those components, I found a significant amount of other parts from the aircraft. Locating a copy of the C-64 Parts Catalog has proven invaluable in identification of components. |
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| Wing Leading Edge Panel, with glove for scale |
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| Detail of Wing Root Cold Air Intake on the Leading Edge Panel |
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| Illustration of the Cold Air Intake flange and screen from the Parts Catalog |
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A couple of unidentified skin panels As seen in prior images, the Norseman had a welded steel tubing fuselage. Attached wood stringers carried a fabric skin; but the aircraft was alclad from the cockpit forward and along the belly. The wing was fabric covered wood, with aluminum leading edges. It employed steel tubing flaps and ailerons. |
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| Landing Gear Wheel Fairing Assembly This was the first part I came upon in my discovery of the aircraft; it is pictured mostly buried in frozen ground on that page's photos. |
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| Fairing Panel detail |
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| Part number and inspection stamp on the Fairing Panel |
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| Parts Catalog Listing (PN highlighted) |
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| Illustration from Parts Catalog |
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A pair of windscreen frame fittings, with part numbers (above & below) |
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| Rudder pedals, still attached in fuselage cockpit. |
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| Aft starboard (RH) wing to fuselage attach fitting and bolt, viewed from exterior. There was some question whether the wings had been torn off in the crash or removed afterwards. The presence of these attach bolts indicates that the starboard wing was torn off in the accident. Conversely, the two port wing bolts are not present, and apparently were removed. |
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| The same wing to fuselage attach fitting and bolt, from the interior. |
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| The forward starboard wing bolt and fitting |
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| Same fitting and bolt from another angle. |
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| Same view, but with mangled section of wing-to-body fairing over the fitting. |
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| The two port (LH) wing attachment fittings, with no bolts present... |
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Tail mooring rings (one on each side of lower aft fuselage) |
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| Elevator shaft attachment tubes |
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| Vertical stabilizer frame |
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| Vertical stabilizer fairing |
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| Vertical stabilizer rear RH fairing part no. |
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| Vertical stabilizer fairing (from below / inside) |
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| Aft end of the fuselage |
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| The tail of the fuselage frame contains one of the few remaining pieces of wood structure... |
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| Aft fuselage lower bow frame |
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| This tree has latched on to the fuselage |
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Fuselage belly fuel tank support straps (above & below) |
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| Assorted debris pieces |
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| Panel edge |
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Melted alloy; evidence that much of the aircraft was consumed by fire. |
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