Last updated December 15,  2009
 True Tales
  from Aviation History.

Stories of  Aviation
history by Don R. Jordan.
(Online only)

Notice: Links are being reactivated a little at a time.

All stories listed below are completed, and will be uploaded as time permits.
If you are interested in one that has a dead link, let me know
 and I'll upload it next.

 The Lick Observatory A-17A          (May 21, 1939)
 The Lick Observatory Crash site
 The Twin Sisters Peak B-18A     (October 24, 1941)
 Visit the Twin Sisters B-18A crash site
 AT-11 on Mt. Hamilton                    (May 29, 1945)
 Visit the Mt. Hamilton AT-11 crash site
 The Mojave B-24D, #42-41128        (April 9, 1944)
 The Auburn C-47B      (Revised 10/08/07)   (November 28,1945)
 The Salinas TP-70B                     (January 11, 1945)
 The San Felipe C-47                                           (March 8, 1948)
 The Lake Berryessa TB-25J         (August 25, 1954)
 The Western Air DC-3A                                      (June 29, 1953)
 Power Dive From 29,000 Feet  (February 17, 1953)
 Visit the San Felipe Crash site 
 The Fairfield-Suisun B-24J    (September 17th 1944)
 Western Air Flight 636                                         (April 20, 1953)
The Five Sierra P-40s                  (October 24, 1941)
  The Bishop Convair 440                                   (March 13, 1974)
The Gambles Special                  (February 18, 1969)
The Placerville B-25                                          (January 29, 1943)
Helendale's B-24L                       (January 30, 1945)
The Muroc B-24D                                             (August 23, 1944)
Western Airlines Flight 23                     (11/13/1946)
The Philippine Clipper                                      ( January 21, 1943)
The Inyokern B-24E                         (June 22, 1943)
The Boron B-24J___       ______                     ____(July 2, 1944)
The Shadow Mountains B-50D          (Jan 10, 1951)
  The Sausalito PBY-5A                                           (May 4, 1945)
"Fasten Your Seat Belt Please"         (Dec 13, 1943) The Wiley Post/Will Rogers Accident                  (August 15, 1935)
 The Sunday Peak B-24J              (January 3, 1944)
A Short History of Aerial Navigation
P-66 Vanguard crash in Karachi, India          (1942)


The above stories will be available for  online reading only!

The book:
'Aircraft Wrecks In The Mountains And Deserts Of California
(3rd Edition now available)

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