http://www.airport-data.com/airport/photo/021516.html.html

I took this photo at Big Bear Airport in CA. on 11-16-2008 while departing and was wondering if anyone knew the backstory to it. Also what the N number might be so I can link it to a profile. Ive tried searching the NTSB database with the partial numbers shown and haven't found anything. Maybe someone could shed some light on this?

Thanks,

Nick

The wreck looks pretty fresh, so I searched the NTSB data where I found two incidents at L35 involving Cessna aircraft between January 1, 2008 and the date you took that picture. Since the wings weren't removed, it is improbable that the crash occurred elsewhere and that the wreckage was then trucked to Big Bear.

One incident involved N758DH, the other involved N21134. Given that the tail number in the picture seems to end in 75, neither entry seems to match.

I then widened the search to include accidents since 1/1/2006 anywhere in California in case the crash occurred off-airport with a subsequent airlift to Big Bear, and still couldn't find a match.

Could the tail number end with "ZF" or "ZE" instead of "75"?

Ken

Edit: Or "7E", "7F"?

I tried using 75 7E & 7F. Their are several incidents with a 7E but they dont seem like they would cause the damage shown. Most of the ones I pulled up were students going off the runway. The closest thing I found was N67975 which taxiied into 2 fuel trucks. I dont know how fast you'd have to go to rip a wing off like that but who knows?

*also tried ZE & ZF but nothing :/

10 days later

that cessna has been there for long time still everytime i see it i wounder what happended to it