REQ> W&R St. Maarten (SXM) 10-01-2016

[SWAT 11]

Hello all,

During a short stop at St. Maarten, on our flight to Curacao, we saw some wrecks lying in the grass nearly at the end of the runway.
At least five small aircrafts (one upsidedown) and a white R22 were standing/laying into the grass.

We can help me finding these registrations of these w&r's?

best regards,

[Aircolours]

Hi Arno,

Your white R22 is probably PJ-KSG, a R44, which is stored there. See http://www.airliners.net/photo/Netherla ... 2589065/L/

The others I don't know, but I am going there myself in April, so I will check it out.

Brgds, Peter

[widmeister]

I know these wfu aircraft. The details are as follows and are listed viewing from left to right from the runway. I have attached a link to a photo taken in February which shows the positions. I'm sure this will be of use to anyone else passing through SXM.

It's not the best of photos, taken from the otter at 1/80 sec as the sun was disappearing fast. It shows the layout though.

Excuse the bad formatting. I can find no way of using tabs or multiple spaces. I formatted the message to be neat then when I look at a preview it has ignored everything and only put single spaces. Any idea how to get around this ?

N66FS PA23-250 (c/n 27-2905) white with thin blue stripe
N30CL Ce 210E (c/n 21058695) white, red & black. rear fuselage broken off.
N5811L Ce 320A (c/n 320A0031) white & green, thin black stripe
N2536N PA38-112 (c/n 38-79A0905) white with red standard tomahawk cheatline and reg
PJ-KSG Robinson R44 (c/n 0835) white with thin black stripes. Police.

http://s88.photobucket.com/user/widmeis ... t.jpg.html

[frank kramer]

Thanks! Very informative indeed; this helps a lot of spotters travelling to that part of the world.

[frank kramer]

As of 2017, the Ce320 N5811L can now be found on a kind of mound near the Maho treshold of the runway in a "nose down" position.

[mirage 69]

After Irma there wil be more planes in nose down position...

[widmeister]

It would be interesting to know where the inmates of that compound ended up after Irma.