Aircraft items - identity to be confirmed.
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The items shown on this page which were located at the crash site and may help work out the exact aircraft type, all these items do not appear to be engine-related. I would welcome any contact from anyone who may be able to give any further details about any of the parts shown here. There are also small pieces of alluminium which look to have been made in a hurry, ie not in a factory, and cannot have passed any form of factory inspection process and I suspect they were part of a modification or repair which took place after the aircraft was made. I will continue to add photographs to this page. I have created a page to show the engine-related finds
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This item has lettering "Air Associates Inc. 41A9177" on it, searching the internet for other examples the part is the outside part of the tube that allowed the crew to go to the toilet and technically named the "Venturi - Pilot Relief Tube". There was one next to the pilots seat and another in the rear of the aircraft. It was used on the Beechcraft but almost certainly on other aircraft types.
Probably two parts of the front surrounds of flying instruments.
Part of a large pulley wheel which has a diameter of around eleven to twelve inches. It is probably part of the elevator bull wheel located in front of the flying controls.
A distinctive vent and similar ones were located in the cockpit and in the rear cabin just below the roof in some Beechcraft Model 18's. The olive green primer is visible on this item and a number of other fragments found at the site.
A large panel shown above which must be the inside face of the panel because of the paint overspray. The edge detail and a possible faded logo on the outer side of the panel are shown below.
Other examples of what must be an internal green colour scheme, the upper photograph also has the rolled edge as seen on the examples of the other stringers shown on this page, the lower one has the same colour paint and an unusually torn piece of alluminium.
The photograph below shows a bright lime-green undercoat/primer seen showing through the darker green and through black paint. These items are a similar colour to that seen inside other Beechcraft Model 18 aircraft photographs. The brightness has not picked up well in this photograph. There is also a tiny area of yellow and green paint in the top right which must have been an outer paint.
A double grooved pulley wheel above with no part number found as yet. Below is a smaller Formica wheel below with the part number "AN-210-2A" and these were fitted to numerous aircraft types, but this included the Beechcraft.
Examples of the colours of paint found. The top photograph shows part of a stringer with the distinct rounded edging and with yellow paint on what must therefore have been the outside of the aircraft. There are flakes of yellow paint near to the point of impact at the crash site shown on the second photograph. This stringer is identical to examples of Beechcraft Model 18 stringers shown on the internet in both modern photographs and in repair manuals. The photograph below shows more yellow paint.
A very crumpled section of aircraft skinning, it's hard to say if this colour was internal or external.
An example of the thin perspex found at the crash site.
A lead item, possibly part of a battery, dated "1942".
These two pieces have the same dimension of bend on them and could well be pieces of the airframe structure or engine cowling. The lower pieces seems normal with a factory produced item however on the upper piece the left side rivit hole on the edge is not on a tear in the metal but across a delibrately cut edge, it can't surely have come out of the factory like this? The sides of this cut have been rounded off with a file but the roundings are not the same. It appears to have been a longer section made smaller after production. The three rivits on this item have been put through the holes the opposite way round to the lower piece.
If the bodged piece detailed above is a re-used piece then this item here is a similar item, the photograph shows a manufacturing number shown on the section below. It seems to have been a re-used piece of metal as the stamp is cut through. Possible numbering should read "B81116 4 1B".
A Bakelite item with an Ace of Spades logo. Possibly part of a flying instrument? I have found nothing on the internet with a similar logo.
I'm not sure what this is. It's had a chrome finish on the outer surface and the groove on the inside measures 5mm. It could be a window surround or from a lamp.
This piece has a less than perfect paint job and can't surely have been done in the Beechcraft factory.
"ALC" lettering, probably refering to Alclad metals.
A number of pieces at the crash site have an alluminium welding on panels, possibly part of liquid holding tanks.
Numbering that appears to read "0-5288". It possibly had a prefix letter "A" not visible on the photograph.
