Three historical photos of N9038

baxsie

I have three historical photos of Curtiss Wright Travel Air 6000 B N9038

Can I get one of you to upload them into the database?

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N9038.html

I tried but cannot get them to go through the upload here, so I put the full resolution scans on my server temporarily:

http://sandbox.cfontz.net/~Brent/N9038/N9038_Travel_Air_1.jpg

http://sandbox.cfontz.net/~Brent/N9038/N9038_Travel_Air_2.jpg

http://sandbox.cfontz.net/~Brent/N9038/N9038_Travel_Air_3.jpg

My dad, Harold Gene Crosby was the pilot this day, flying for Johnson Aviation out of McCall. The engine failed after some repair work. He got it down OK on the road next to the Payette river near McCall, Idaho. The road was freshly graded, and had some berms from the grader in the road. As he slowed, a wheel caught the berm and flipped the plane in "slow motion" into the river.

I think this was right before I was born, around 1962 or 1963.

He remembers jumping into the river after his brand new ball cap, which he saw floating away after he exited the plane.

The photos are scans from old slides. Best guess was that Harold Gene Crosby took them on his old Argus 35mm that he always had.

Trivia: A much embellished (at least according to dad :) ) account of this mishap is related in Stan Tate's book, Jumping Skyward:

http://www.amazon.com/Jumping-Skyward-Stan-Tate/dp/1886591032

Linked images, for reference:

baxsie

Here are some more plane photos from that same set of old slides. Full resolution scans:

http://sandbox.cfontz.net/~Brent/N9038/2218812-SLD-0420.jpg

http://sandbox.cfontz.net/~Brent/N9038/2218812-SLD-0416.jpg

http://sandbox.cfontz.net/~Brent/N9038/2218812-SLD-0104.jpg

http://sandbox.cfontz.net/~Brent/N9038/2218812-SLD-0103.jpg

The only information I have on these is that they were from Stibnite, Idaho, backcountry probably in the 1950's. Maybe one of you ambitious folks can figure out the N numbers and transfer them over into the database.

Smaller linked images, for reference:

baxsie

Looks like the Piper on skis is N4348M or maybe N4346M:

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N4348M.html

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N4346M.html

I used Photoshop to get a good look at the picture where they are pushing it into the hangar:

So if one of you can upload the piper images to the database, I would be grateful.

baxsie

Cool. I found the accident report. 16 days before my birth day:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=82501&key=0