Re: [cactuswings 4544] REQ - Help with ID of Remaining Delta B747-400's at MZJ (Marana Pinal)

Chris,

Thanks for your help/input,but this is were many photographers appear to have "assumed" identification and gas been a bit of a challenge at many places for me for years Rosewell,Victorville and Moscow etc

Yes took iphone photos for blemish and cut out marks.

I had looked at Javier's excellent photos from last year but he appears to have assumed the photo id to be N662US

My CASE from firm registrations before blanking, so not the positions at this time

Here is N662US in a photo in flickr by Stella Semeraro (Taken dated as 17th July 2020)

shorturl.at/buO57     (Hopefully this URL shortner works if not ,I will resend)

In this photo (Tail Left side)

1. By 2020 N662US already has a panel chunk removed from the base front of the tail (this is present on the assumed airframe 2022)

2. In 2020 N662US has 3 equipment boxes removed from the left side of the tail by the rudder 2 together, 1further up (in Javiers assumed N662US photo from Nov 2022 ,the tail has ony 2 equipment boxes missing the top one and one of the other ones below)

My id photo does of course match Javier's photo including the large cut in the front (which is common on a couple of airframes) and the silver window blanking.

The 2 fully painted a/c were N675NW and N676NW Neither in the top area leving the rest as "whitewashed"tails.

So the challenge continues

Thanks

Michael

On Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 12:55:56 PM UTC+1 Chris Watson wrote:

Hi Michael,

I take it that you saw 9 Delta aircraft, did you take photos or are you checking note pages, as N662US does have a complete Delta Tail.

Perhaps, this might help.

Chris

N662US/N662US aviation photos on JetPhotos

On Saturday, 25 March 2023 at 08:36:55 UTC Dave wrote:

Thanks Michael

Hopefully someone else on the list can confirm in due course

Dave

On 24 Mar 2023, at 22:18, 'Michael' via cactuswings <cactus...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I got nothing on any forum ,I cant even who owns them ,to e-mail ,so continued my trawling of photos on site after site.

So eventually found a photo from Nov 2021 of the top corner when they were still marked and checking my Feb 2023 positions

I am (90% sure from exact position,scrape marks and pieces missing)

Top

N671US (with the P3 behind) next

N673US (on 671's nose) facing Silver Bell Gate House

N672US (facing 673)     tail facing Silver Bell Gate House

the next 3 have not moved but could not id the 2 to the right of 673 facing same way and the one to left of 672 may 30% was 669 photo blurred.

That is as much as the others  have moved with furth down with of course one gone completely.

Best I could do after many hours of finding a good photo after many wrongly ID's of the blanked ones.

Michael L

On Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 4:03:42 PM UTC Dave wrote:

Hello Michael

I'd be interested to know if you resolved your question?

Thanks

Dave

On 20 Feb 2023, at 22:00, 'Michael' via cactuswings <cactus...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Is there anyone on this site that knows the idendities of the above aircraft.

Database's give 10 but we now have only 9 (2 which still have full id)

Having visited on FEB 4th, there were

6 up by Silver Bell

1 in scrapping are mid way beteen them an the main ramp

N675NW is now in Southeast Scrapping Area (Moved since tu154b2 ,Jakob's excellent report)

N676NW remains in West Outer Storage Area

The remaining 8 ,of which one has gone are

N662US

N666US

N669US

N670US

N671US

N672US

N673US

N674US

I have trawled Jetphotos,Flikr and airliners.net ,some of which have had the wrong ID for photo captions due to certain missing parts not matching.

Unfortunately known of the obvious parts were femoved while the registrations wer visible.

Any help would be appreciated,Delta must know but unfortunatley never went down the nice large c/n painted on the side like much of thr airfield.

Michael L

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