Skeet/Loreto - 3-26-2005 at 12:05 PM
Pom; I am trying to find somewone who may remember a Cessna 210 or 320 that went in oof the runway at chivato. You could see it very plain as you took
off. It appeared to be in about 25 Fet of Water.
do you know the Story?
Vaughn Lamb an I went in there in 1970 pulled the wings off a Cessna 310 , loaded it on a Trailer, back across on the Ferry and back to San diego for
Repairs.
I am not sure about the Dates on seeing the Sunken Aircraft.
Skeet/Loreto
Skeet on Pta. Chivato plane in water...
Pompano - 3-26-2005 at 04:27 PM
Skeet, I don't for sure, but maybe the history about that plane involves a Dr. Sordo from Mexico City who lived at the Casa Grande for 6-8 months in
the early 80's...I think. I'll double check for you. I first went there in '72, but later I lived at the Casa Grande from '79 -81' and recall some
other weird plane incidents, too. One frequent visitor from Mulege who flew a Cessna 150 (unlicensed and unskilled) to our parties would have to land
and stop by going up the hill a little and rolling back! Sadly, his luck ran out one day on a pre-dawn attempt from the Serinadad. Only in Baja!
Here's some old aerial shots that will take you back...note that there are no other houses yet! It's a city out there now.
We made our own golf course...free green fees for 1 dead rattlesnake, raised a couple of orphaned desert bobcat for release back into the wild, and
offered bikini-clad campers swims in our freshwater 'swimming pool' up on the hill...which was the community cistern!
Oh, we all had some good times at Chivato!
Thanks for the Come Back.
Skeet/Loreto - 3-27-2005 at 08:00 AM
I first landed there on my second trip in November of 1968. there was no one in the rundown Hotel, I think I remember seein Golden Facets in the
trashed out Bathrooms.
Did you ever run across a Character named John Hardeway and his wife Judy? He had a Dirt Bike, got run out of the Orchard and built that First Place
across the river on the Hill and in direct Line of the airplanes Taking off from Serenidad in Mulege?
He at one time had a Lot at Chivato, but sold it for $15,000, thnking the govt was going to take it Away.
Skeet/Loreto