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| Can you help solve a Maine aviation archaeology mystery??? | |||||||||||||||||
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| MAINE'S MOST HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT AVIATION MYSTERY- DID NUNGESSER AND COLI MAKE IT TO MAINE ABOARD THE "WHITE BIRD"??? On May 8, 1927, two weeks before Charles Lindbergh's successful crossing of the Atlantic Ocean aboard "The Spirit of St. Louis", Charles Nungesser and Francois Coli departed Paris for an attempted crossing to New York aboard their plane "l'Oiseau Blanc". They were never seen again. The most likely scenario is that they crashed at sea. However, several witnesses have reported seeing or hearing the aircraft over Newfoundland and eastern Maine. There are several high profile ongoing searches for this aircraft, and several local researchers are currently following new leads. | |||||||||||||||||
| THE SPRUCE MOUNTAIN CRASH- In August of 1942 a Royal Canadian Air Force Avro Anson bomber crashed into Saddleback Mountain near Brownville Junction. During the air search for the wreck, another crashed plane was discovered on one of the nearby mountains. News reports at the time list it as being on "Spruce Mountain"- not specifying Big or Little Spruce. A comment in a report filed by an RCAF Officer lists the location of the second wreck at nearby White Cap Mountain. We can find no record identifying this crash. SOLVED!!- THERE WAS NO SECOND CRASH SPOTTED ......... Click here to read more!! | |||||||||||||||||
| SPEDNIC LAKE MYSTERY CRASH- In November 1960, a search for a missing hunter near Lambert Lake in Washington County ended successfully when a Warden Pilot spotted him from the air on the shore of nearby Spednic Lake. The newspaper account relates that "aircraft wreckage spotted near the hunter was identified as a navy plane that crashed "about ten years ago".. We can find no documentation of a U.S. or Canadian military aircraft crashing in this area between 1939 and 1960. Several locals interviewed have made reference to a TBM or similar aircraft that crashed near Tomah Mountain. A guide recalls visiting a military wreck near the Forest City access road in 1952. I believe that the wreck spotted was that of a Republic Seabee (civilian) that crashed in 1948. Somehow "amphibian" or "float plane" got turned into "Navy" plane by a reporter. ARTICLE TO FOLLOW! | |||||||||||||||||
| THE MUD POND (NEAR GREENVILLE) MYSTERY WRECKAGE- This wreck, just north of the CP railroad tracks and south of the Greenville Airport was listed on USAF/CAP crash locator lists in the 1960's as an "unknown" wreckage from 1938. We have interviewed hunters who have seen the wreckage in recent decades, but can find no government records, or newspaper accounts of the incident. Some local individuals have stated that it was a "Canadian mail plane" that crashed in the 1930's. | |||||||||||||||||
| A BOMBER CRASH NEAR NARRAGUAGUS LAKE??- We have had verbal reports of an "old 2 engined bomber crash" in this area of Hancock County. It is often reported as a B-25, or PV-1 near the "old Army Road" and was reportedly listed on older USAF/CAP crash locators. I have no record of such a crash (yet). This could possible be a rumor generated by the crash of an F-89J nearby in East Franklin in the late 1960's. | |||||||||||||||||
| DEPOT LAKE MYSTERY BOMBER- We have received a report, from a reliable source, that a "four engined Canadian bomber" crash was spotted from the air near Depot Lake, on the Maine/PQ border in the 1980's. Some locals interviewed put this wreckage at Little East Lake further north. No crash can be documented through records research and both air and ground searches of the area have come up empty. Some details of this incident, from people in this remote area during 1944, have checked out as being from a partial B-17 crew bailout near Mingan Ontario in November 1944. | |||||||||||||||||
| MISSING F-84F OVER EASTERN MAINE- In the fall of 1954, newspapers along the east coast carried the story of the USAF search for a missing F-84F from Langley AFB Virginia, along the coast of Maine. No USAF inquiry into such a missing aircraft exists in the microfilmed records. | |||||||||||||||||
| MILITARY CRASH NEAR MUNSUNGUN LAKE?- Over the years, we have collected many reports of a WW II aircraft discovered in the North Maine Woods in the 1950's. In several cases it is rumored that an Avro Anson or similar bomber went down near Munsungun. A guide has provided a reliable report of finding a WW II vintage radio headset along a brook in this area. While there was a famous civilian aircraft disappearance in this area in the 1950's, we are unable to document a military mishap in this region. | |||||||||||||||||
| I-95 MYSTERY WRECKAGE- Over the years, there have been persistant rumors that a WW II vintage plane wreck was removed when I-95 was constructed through the Medway area. No record or solid lead can be found. One photograph that occasionally surfaces of this wreck has turned out to be a forced landing in New Hampshire. Details of the accident, in these rumors usually line up with the discovery of Sea Fury TF 997 in 1968 (while I-95 was being constructed in this area) or a Vickers Delta that landed on a nearby lake in 1939 and disappeared until 1958 shortly thereafter. | |||||||||||||||||
| THE JOHNSTON POND WRECKAGE- I have a verbal report that the wreckage of a missing aircraft was found by the staff of the Great Northern Paper Company experimental forest camps in this area (near Jo-Mary) in the 1950's. Aircraft type and incident history are unknown. |
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