After I’d left the Aviation Museum and had started heading back to my car, I caught a look through an open door at an engine being rebuilt in the workshop and wandered in to ask if I could get a couple of pictures of the work in progress. Sensing I was a bit of an aviation enthusiast, the welder I was talking to disappeared into the back for a bit and then came back and said “Hey… do you like airplanes? You have to see this!”

The Ghost Plane of Charron Lake

This is a pretty exclusive picture (Thank you to the awesome volunteers in the workshop!) of part of the “Ghost Plane of Charron Lake“. Thought lost after sinking through shallow ice in a snowstorm in 1931, “The Ghost” sat at the bottom of Charron Lake (how appropriate!) until recently, when a WCAM exploration team managed to pin it down on sonar, parked at the bottom like an eerie skeleton.

Since raising the plane, they’ve decided to rebuild her and put her on display. They’ve got a ghost hanging on her fuselage to remind everyone helping of her 65 years in the abyss. She looks a bit of a mess right now, but I’m told a lot of the frame is in fantastic shape and she’s a great specimen, especially considering her history.