On this episode of Abandoned Airplanes we travel to three non-towered airports in the Phoenix-Tucson area of Southern Arizona. We come across the shocking burned remains of a Cessna 414A, find an Ameriflight boneyard, discover the mother load of Lockheed C-130 parts, along with many other interesting finds.

Please help us find the history on these aircraft and hopefully help find new homes for the restoration and return to flight! We need your help!

Aircraft in this episode & viewer submitted details:

Cessna 414A - Hangar fire (Ref: L. Portouw)
Diamond DA-40 - Was removed from Benson by a flat bed truck (Ref: L. Portouw)
Luscombe 8A -
Douglas DC-3 (N34AH) -
Lockheed C-130 (N119TG) -

Piper PA-31s (N27426, N27677, N59820) - N59820 flown by Ellis Chernoff both in scheduled passenger service, charter, and cargo for Air Carolina. She was then known as "Carolina One"

C-119 Flying Boxcar (N15501) - manufactured by Fairchild Aircraft Company in 1968 and was formerly owned by Hawkins & Powers of Greybull, Wyoming. Hawkins and Power's, once renowned for their aerial firefighting aircraft, flew N15501 to Africa to film the opening sequences of the 2004 remake of the film Flight of the Phoenix. Three other ex USMC C-119Fs were used in various wreck scenes. (Thanks to Kevin Hedspeth)

The C-119 Flying Boxcar (N15501) has the logo painted on of the fake 'Amacore Oil' company from the movie, "Flight of the Phoenix" (2004). That plane was last flown ~2007?

The [2004] film is a remake of the 1965 film of the same name, both based on the 1964 novel The Flight of the Phoenix, by Elleston Trevor, about a group of people who survive an aircraft crash in the Gobi Desert and must build a new aircraft out of the old one to escape. It stars Dennis Quaid, Giovanni Ribisi, Tyrese Gibson, Miranda Otto and Hugh Laurie. (Thanks to Emmanuel Goldstein)

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