Monday, August 17, 2009

Airplane Graveyard and Museum

We stopped at the rest area in Greybull, Wyoming (notice the crowd?) and discovered an airplane graveyard and museum next door. Just where I'd expect to find one - NOT! The graveyard...

Hey, we found Amelia Earhart's airplane. She flew it to Wyoming and got lost somewhere in the state! The museum...
According to the internet...On June 17, 2002 air tanker T-130 crashed while working on the Cannon fire in Walker CA. (Hawkins and Powers C-130 Herc, #130). Captain Steve Wass, right seat Craig LaBare, and engineer Mike Davis lost their lives fighting the fire. The plane broke apart in flight while executing a fire retardant delivery. The airplane was registered to Hawkins and Powers Aviation, Inc., Greybull, Wyoming, and operated by the Department of Agriculture (USDA), US Forestry Service (USFS

T123 was an air tanker that broke up and was lost July 18, 2002 when flying an air tanker on the Big Elk Fire on the Arapaho Roosevelt National Forest near Estes Park, Colorado.

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