When friends ask us where exactly in town we live, we often start by saying just off the Old Steese past Hagelbarger. If that doesn't get them oriented we usually follow up with, "have you seen that random DC6A parked in the woods off the Old Steese?". There are some serious collectors here in Fairbanks, and while I'll admit an airplane is a bit out of the ordinary, it's not uncommon to find all sorts of bizarre junk in people's yards. Even some of the houses are strange. Just down the road from this plane is a house on stilts, elevated above the treeline. Which just so happens to be another good landmark for navigation.
Paste the following coordinates into Google Earth to see this lost plane for yourself:
64.918526, -147.623259
Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, ISO-100 f/20 @ 1.3 sec, 3 images +/- 2EV
Apparently it was delivered to a company called Flying Tiger Line (aka Flying Tigers) in 1953:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000189020.html
Flying Tigers was the first scheduled cargo airline in the US and was eventually bought by FedEx.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tiger_Line
The more you know!