Cnadair CL-44-O Guppy to be scrapped.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 31 Jul 2006, 12:33

During an extension of the last airworthy Viscount discussion on that thread a sad piece of information came to light.

After many years of little activity at Teeside and then Bournemouth it appears the aircraft is about to be scrapped

Shame, especially given the uniqueness of the aircraft.

Here is the aircraft's history

http://www.allaboutguppys.com/cl44/cl44.htm

So if anyone wants to see it....now's the time

Garry

Reheat · Post by **Reheat** » 31 Jul 2006, 12:37

Another link:

http://www.cl44.org/

I would suggest the last newsletter on that site may be of interest to all reading this thread.

Also any Ex Guppy engineers are required if they have spare time to help with the dissembly!

Alex

VEGAS · Post by **VEGAS** » 31 Jul 2006, 12:52

Wow, an interesting but sad article there. I did'nt know the last one was even in this country! :shock:

Shame it could'nt be acquired by one of the museums and perform one last ferry flight. :sad:

Thanks for the info.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 31 Jul 2006, 13:00

A point of interest here is that they were to be two Guppy's, but one was never converted.

The other one N446T was delivered to Conroy in December 1968.

In Feb 1969 it was leased to Mobile Oil.

On the 1st May 1969 it suffered an undercarriage collapse on landing at Anchorage and caught fire.

Garry

gwsimulations · Post by **gwsimulations** » 15 Aug 2006, 19:55

What a waste. :curse:

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 15 Aug 2006, 20:44

gwsimulations wrote:What a waste. :curse:

How is your Guppy coming along Graham?

AndyG

gwsimulations · Post by **gwsimulations** » 15 Aug 2006, 23:29

AndyG wrote:
gwsimulations wrote:What a waste. :curse:
How is your Guppy coming along Graham?

AndyG

Don't ask. I should never have volunteered to do a VC.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 15 Aug 2006, 23:32

Hi Graham

Seems a pity to hold it back just for the sake of a VC

Surley that can follow later? :think:

ATB

Garry

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 16 Aug 2006, 00:04

Never mind I read the thread - you werent talking about the 44 Guppy were you

Leif

Post by **Garry Russell** » 16 Aug 2006, 00:08

No Leif...not flying.

A couple derelict and one Yukon derelict in South America they want to get back

All about CL-44 here

http://www.cl44.com/cl44/cl44.htm

This is the last complete..Funny thing is recently I linked a pic of a derelict one that had been painted as XV something or other (196)? for a film. That one was later removed and restored to service !

Garry