[WWI] Vernon Castle/Benbrook Airfield

[J.R. Boye]

Thanks for those sites, Dave!
    It looks like the plane Castle was flying in when he crashed was a plain finished JN-4 with exposed wheel spokes and a British roundel on the side.
    If it was a Jenny from Benbrook, maybe it had U.S. markings and Castle added the roundel to the fuselage because he was RCAF.
    It looks like the first two digits of the serial are '68' followed by a '1'. The '68' is painted over a still visible '74'. If there is a numeral in front of the '68', it would have to be a '7' because anything else would show from behind the standing man. The in-flight photo of Jennies from Benbrook shows them with 5-digit serials, all starting with '38".

                                                      J.R. Boye

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From: David C. Fletcher <dcf at mars.ark.com>
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...And the wreckage is at 
<http://www.old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/Castles-Vernon-plane.htm>

Dave Fletcher




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