Secret Ohio Warplane Graveyard Unearthed [Planelopnik]

Somewhere in northeast Ohio meadow sits massive throng of rusting 1950s military aircraft. Here’s the story behind the incredible horde of aircraft, complete with aerial pictures. UPDATE

Michael Wendell was ready to take his camera within the site, which he says has not been added to since the early 1970s. He tells Telstar Logistics that the owner appears to be a hoarder, with pieces and materials stuffed inside several of the planes. The relics include the Vought F7U Cutlass above, a P-51 and a B-36.

Wendell’s video suggests exposure to the Buckeye State elements hasn’t been kind, and there’s enough vegetation growing under and through some to indicate the planes may never move again.

Airplane Junkyard – Northeast Ohio from Michael Wendell on Vimeo .

UPDATE As several of our eagle-eyed commenters have noted, the location belongs to Walter Soplata. His son Wally wrote in 2007 that several of the planes once on the ground had been given to museums and restored, and that while the positioning used to be open to visitors, it’s been closed for several years.

Thanks to the magic of aerial photography, even though you don’t live in Ohio one could see what the positioning seems like today:

(H/t to The Candy-VanCan !)

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