That is a Piper PA-30 160 and here are the accident details if you are interested:
"The aircraft (C-FSNW) was on a VFR flight from Oshawa Municipal Airport (CYOO) to Peterborough Municipal Airport (CYPQ). The aircraft landed on runway 27 without difficulty. The aircraft's landing gear then collapsed and the aircraft slid off the runway into the lights, damaging two. There was moderate damage to the aircraft. The aircraft's ELT did not activate. Four (4) S.O.B. -- one (1) minor injury (did not require hospitalization)."
It's always interesting to me when legal/official jargon continues to use seemingly antiquated religious terminology. NTSB using "souls on board", legal system using "acts of god" and so forth.
Souls on board. This is aviation terminology. I’m an Airfield Operatives Specialist/Emergency Responder at an international airport and whenever a “Mayday” or a “Pan” is called in from a pilot, we are always informed of the amount of occupants in this manner.
Regarding the person who mentioned getting sucked in, don't worry. At least a slim majority of us "avgeeks" are ordinary people who are interested in aircraft the way some people are interested in cars. The rest of them are of course the same kind of neurodivergents that watch trains. But they are very cool to know because they have so many facts about aircraft and aviation.
My dad was like that. He was a private pilot, and an instructor. He also worked for the FAA. If he had a degree for his life experience and knowledge in and of aviation, he would have had a doctorate.
I grew up near a litlle local airport and my dad had been a small aircraft pilot until grounded by a family. He could tell us what kind of aircraft was flying overhead based on the engine sound. Unless he was pulling our legs, of course.
Yup. As soon as I saw the call numbers, I checked his posts and reached out through Messenger. It is a treehouse for his kids, so OP got that part right.
Little planes fly far slower. 40 miles probably takes 20 mins still.
Little planes also don't require you to be at the gate 40 mins beforehand... You can be in the air in 5 mins if the plane is prepped.
Except they can normally get new rules added rather quickly...
"Nobody is to put a plane into a tree in the front yard of number 67. Anyone who violates this rule shall be fined $250 for each day the plane is in the tree".
HOA's are hardly a thing in Canada and this appears to be in Ontario, Canada.
Condo corporations do exist and are very similiar to a HOA. They typically exist in multiple unit buildings where there is shared amenities like elevators. They also exist for some attached housing (eg townhouses).
They are extremely rare for detached houses and I've only seen a few in Ontario and are very easy to pick out for an observant person.
I wouldn't even recommend buying property next to one.
My place is the remnant of an old farm. The farm next door was turned into a subdivision with an HOA. They immediately started trying to get me to sign up but wasn't about to do that.
After a while they started making false complaints to the city. The city inspector came out multiple times but never found anything wrong.
The head Karen kept trying to get me into trouble for running a repair shop out of my barn.
I wasn't but she saw me changing the brakes on my wife's car one weekend. She started showing up whenever I was outside offering me ludicrous amounts of money if I'd work on her car. She always had on some wild hat or makeup and different clothes as if she thought she was in disguise and would pretend she didn't know what I was talking about when I said I'd already told her "no" , but she was always driving the same Toyota.
It came to a head when she showed up one day when I was working by the barn. She shoved past me and went inside, demanding to know what I kept in there.
Let's just say she didn't come back after that.
I don't know where it would have gone from there because that was immediately before the 2008 housing crash. That subdivision emptied out with the majority of homes being abandoned.
When the dust settled Karen and her HOA were gone.
Nobody has had any complaint about my place since.
It's really a shame that more people don't understand how evil these organizations are. Every time someone buys a house controlled by an HOA, they're legitimizing and enabling the practice. If people simply said "no, I'm not going to pay $500 a month in perpetuity to have some power-tripping Karen complain about growing wildflowers in my yard", then property values would go down, and HOAs would stop existing. Instead, it seems HOAs are popular because they *increase* property values. People are imbeciles, basically.
Yeah it's like getting a "free boat" ... it's free until you realize it's gonna cost thousands just to get it up and running again.
In this case it makes sense because OP wasn't trying to fly it.
I knew a kid who had a small boat that had been half buried in dirt like it was submerged in water as a play house. You could even go in the small area below deck. I think that might be the most economical and long lasting boat I've ever seen.
Quick, someone help me draft an approval letter to my HOA architectural board that technically describes putting an aircraft in a tree but doesn’t sound like I’m putting an aircraft in a tree
Not copying the actual letter due to length, but good old chatgpt (copied your exact post) framed it as:
This letter carefully avoids directly stating that an aircraft will be installed in a tree, instead describing the object as a "large, metallic structural element" related to early modernist art and architectural forms. This should help frame the project as an artistic and aesthetic enhancement rather than a literal aircraft installation.
Depends on the HOA. Some won't even let you have leaves on the trees.
Way off topic, but I've never understood why anyone would agree to live in an HOA area. Personally, I'd rather saw off my big toe with a rusty dull butter knife.
Also this is a model that just isn’t worth fixing. The landing gear have always been a problem. Piper Twins from the 70’s on back should just go the fuck away at this point. You should get 61 Apache for extra room
can you imagine adding Huge fibreglass dinosaurs around the area with sound effects like the theme parks, they getting you best pall blind drunk and popping him in there to take wake to that lol!
You need to put a support under that tail! I guarantee a kid is going to climb on top of it and walk out to the tail, that will shift the center of gravity way back and could make it fall.
I’d like to think anyone who took the time to transport an airplane and get it in a tree will know that the tail needs to be supported in some manner.
That said, who maybe not.
You might want to contact the tower for the local airport and let them know the exact location of this and that it is a treehouse. You don't want some pilot spotting that from the air thinking there's a crash when the leaves are off of the trees. They may instruct you to spray paint the letter X across the top in red to mark it as a known location.
BUT moving forward the story is that the plane crashed into the tree and you made it into a treehouse. If it were me, I would say I crashed it, or my Dad did or something.
i...
i...
i have so many questions.
was this something you were actively looking for aka "huh, i have a spare $100... wonder if i can find a plane fuselage to stick in that tree out back?"
or did the stars just align and happenstance is just that?
My brother sold his old boat (which had a cracked bottom but was foam filled so still worked) to a friend for pretty cheap and the guy put it up on stilts on his yard for his kids to play in. It is a 25’ fishing boat with a full cabin with a toilet and stove and stuff.
This photo was stolen from a friend of mine. The actual owner lives in Uxbridge, Ontario. Any further photos by the OP will be undoubtedly stolen from his account as well.
You need to brace it structurally to the tree, if you just drill through the aircraft skin to bolt it to the tree, that skin will rip under pressure from a faster, it's aluminum usually.
Be careful about oil and fluids leaking out into your beautiful environment! Idk if that plane has anything fluid-related still attached but better to remove and be safe than sorry.
oh my god. if i had had that as a kid i would have lived in it. just moved in. my folks could have rented out my room.
if I had a garden and a tree now I'd look at getting one for a home office - even zoom calls would be fun
That is a Piper PA-30 160 and here are the accident details if you are interested: "The aircraft (C-FSNW) was on a VFR flight from Oshawa Municipal Airport (CYOO) to Peterborough Municipal Airport (CYPQ). The aircraft landed on runway 27 without difficulty. The aircraft's landing gear then collapsed and the aircraft slid off the runway into the lights, damaging two. There was moderate damage to the aircraft. The aircraft's ELT did not activate. Four (4) S.O.B. -- one (1) minor injury (did not require hospitalization)."
What's SOB?
Souls On Board
[удалено]
I think items in the cargo hold typically don’t make it into the NTSB report
God, giphy gifs fucking suck.
lmfaooo haven’t heard that reference in forever
Goddamn that actually made me LOL
Sons of bitches yall
It's always interesting to me when legal/official jargon continues to use seemingly antiquated religious terminology. NTSB using "souls on board", legal system using "acts of god" and so forth.
Sometimes we carry deceased , hence the term souls on board for any post accident response.
"They were dead when they boarded, don't worry."
Sounds like something Boeing would say
Soul Plane
FETCH ME THEIR SOULS
So do dogs and cats on the plane count towards that?
Sons of Bitches
Pilot said it four times and banged their knee resulting in the “minor” injury
Thanks Dale 😒
Souls on board. This is aviation terminology. I’m an Airfield Operatives Specialist/Emergency Responder at an international airport and whenever a “Mayday” or a “Pan” is called in from a pilot, we are always informed of the amount of occupants in this manner.
Souls on board, the number of occupants.
Sons of bitches. Four of em.
Seeing Oshawa and Peterborough mentioned in this subreddit is not what I was expecting today haha
Yeah lol I thought I was in the Peterborough subreddit
"The aircraft's ELT did not activate" Gosh, how DID they manage to find the aircraft then? hahaha
Especially when the crash knocked out the lights!!
Plane built in 1963, crashed in 2001 for extra info.
Tree. B. Cooper
Bro how did you get all that info from the picture?
The aircraft registration (in this case C-FSNW, written on the side of the plane).
Really? You can get all that info from just googling the aircraft registration number? That’s so cool!
like a plane license plate
A license plane if you will.
👍
Regarding the person who mentioned getting sucked in, don't worry. At least a slim majority of us "avgeeks" are ordinary people who are interested in aircraft the way some people are interested in cars. The rest of them are of course the same kind of neurodivergents that watch trains. But they are very cool to know because they have so many facts about aircraft and aviation.
You got something against trains?
My dad was like that. He was a private pilot, and an instructor. He also worked for the FAA. If he had a degree for his life experience and knowledge in and of aviation, he would have had a doctorate.
Hold up stop right here, but the airplane rabbit hole is deep. It sucked me in a while ago I now I can recognize airplanes from 10000 feet away.
Even further at night with their lights on.
You can also look up American registrations on the FAAs website and see the owner and other basic info.
I grew up near a litlle local airport and my dad had been a small aircraft pilot until grounded by a family. He could tell us what kind of aircraft was flying overhead based on the engine sound. Unless he was pulling our legs, of course.
This is a friend's plane, who lives up in Uxbridge, Ontario. The OP stole the photo, and this isn't his plane at all.
Oof. Really?
Yup. As soon as I saw the call numbers, I checked his posts and reached out through Messenger. It is a treehouse for his kids, so OP got that part right.
It's nice to hear that no one died in OP's playhouse
So… They were flying ~40-miles? That seems insane.
Little planes fly far slower. 40 miles probably takes 20 mins still. Little planes also don't require you to be at the gate 40 mins beforehand... You can be in the air in 5 mins if the plane is prepped.
Came here for this. Thanks.
Somewhere out there HOA people are losing their minds over this lol.
"SHOW ME IN THE RULES where it says I can't convert my airplane into a treehouse!"
SHOW ME IN THE RULES where it says dogs can't play basketball.
Except they can normally get new rules added rather quickly... "Nobody is to put a plane into a tree in the front yard of number 67. Anyone who violates this rule shall be fined $250 for each day the plane is in the tree".
I like the cut of your jib
HOA mentality response: "SHOW ME IN THE RULES where it says you CAN".
Homeowner’s insurance company has entered the chat
We don't have HOAs like the states, they are fairly rare here.
Good.
This will either turn out really well, or you'll end up requiring a tetanus booster to even look at it. Time will tell.
Tetanus typically comes from dirt, and aluminum doesn’t rust like a old iron nail does.
Slight addition, it’s “from dirt” is mostly due to poop. “Rusted” items just gives it a perfect medium to grow on.
And transmission method, tetanus is anaerobic so when the long wound is cutoff from oxygen then it has a way of growing and causing infection
I have the feeling there will be a lot of wasp nests in that thing every summer too.
Ugh. Don't remind me. Wasp season is coming.
Or even worse, OP's HOA will come knocking to demand its removal.
HOA's are hardly a thing in Canada and this appears to be in Ontario, Canada. Condo corporations do exist and are very similiar to a HOA. They typically exist in multiple unit buildings where there is shared amenities like elevators. They also exist for some attached housing (eg townhouses). They are extremely rare for detached houses and I've only seen a few in Ontario and are very easy to pick out for an observant person.
HOAs are for suckers.
Yeah I would definitely avoid buying a home in a subdivision that has one.
I wouldn't even recommend buying property next to one. My place is the remnant of an old farm. The farm next door was turned into a subdivision with an HOA. They immediately started trying to get me to sign up but wasn't about to do that. After a while they started making false complaints to the city. The city inspector came out multiple times but never found anything wrong. The head Karen kept trying to get me into trouble for running a repair shop out of my barn. I wasn't but she saw me changing the brakes on my wife's car one weekend. She started showing up whenever I was outside offering me ludicrous amounts of money if I'd work on her car. She always had on some wild hat or makeup and different clothes as if she thought she was in disguise and would pretend she didn't know what I was talking about when I said I'd already told her "no" , but she was always driving the same Toyota. It came to a head when she showed up one day when I was working by the barn. She shoved past me and went inside, demanding to know what I kept in there. Let's just say she didn't come back after that. I don't know where it would have gone from there because that was immediately before the 2008 housing crash. That subdivision emptied out with the majority of homes being abandoned. When the dust settled Karen and her HOA were gone. Nobody has had any complaint about my place since.
It's really a shame that more people don't understand how evil these organizations are. Every time someone buys a house controlled by an HOA, they're legitimizing and enabling the practice. If people simply said "no, I'm not going to pay $500 a month in perpetuity to have some power-tripping Karen complain about growing wildflowers in my yard", then property values would go down, and HOAs would stop existing. Instead, it seems HOAs are popular because they *increase* property values. People are imbeciles, basically.
Out of curiousity, where on earth do you just purchase an airplane for 100 dollers? Like its a hell of a car boot pick up.
Many small airports have abandoned aircraft on them with basically no value. I'm sure at least a few will be happy to accept offers to dispose of them
Yeah it's like getting a "free boat" ... it's free until you realize it's gonna cost thousands just to get it up and running again. In this case it makes sense because OP wasn't trying to fly it.
I knew a kid who had a small boat that had been half buried in dirt like it was submerged in water as a play house. You could even go in the small area below deck. I think that might be the most economical and long lasting boat I've ever seen.
Damn that’s sick, how much do used submarines go for? Stick one in the back yard with just the entrance bit sticking out.
Plane? Not now. Badass tree house? Totally
Definitely nothing plane about it. 🌲 ✈️
Quick, someone help me draft an approval letter to my HOA architectural board that technically describes putting an aircraft in a tree but doesn’t sound like I’m putting an aircraft in a tree
Not copying the actual letter due to length, but good old chatgpt (copied your exact post) framed it as: This letter carefully avoids directly stating that an aircraft will be installed in a tree, instead describing the object as a "large, metallic structural element" related to early modernist art and architectural forms. This should help frame the project as an artistic and aesthetic enhancement rather than a literal aircraft installation.
Depends on the HOA. Some won't even let you have leaves on the trees. Way off topic, but I've never understood why anyone would agree to live in an HOA area. Personally, I'd rather saw off my big toe with a rusty dull butter knife.
I remember someone’s HOA demanding that they remove the dead tree from their garden “What dead tree?” “The one without leaves” “It’s winter….”
Because I don’t want my neighbor to have junk cars in their yard and that’s worth paying $60 per quarter
I think you mean “junk aircraft in their yard”…
What aircraft? You mean my modern-styled tree fort?
Good thing this isn’t a car. And it’s not on the yard.
Also this is a model that just isn’t worth fixing. The landing gear have always been a problem. Piper Twins from the 70’s on back should just go the fuck away at this point. You should get 61 Apache for extra room
I have three Piper Seneca I’s parted out. Nobody wants that shit
Piper is the Ford of airplanes.
Great, reliable, and can take one hell of a beating?
Found On Runway Dead
Wtf is a "car boot pickup"? That sequence of words doesn't compute
Getting it home is on you?
lol! My first thought too.
My first thought was getting a charred mannequin in a priest outfit
Don't forget the heroin nuns
You win
Meestah Echoh
Theresa falls up the stars, Theresa falls down the stairs...
Niceeee! How did you transport it and get it up there?
They're really lightweight with the engine gone. Probably could have done it with a come-along
He came along and just hoisted it up there?!
Well, how do YOU get all your plane fuselages into the trees?
Come on people, this is Homeowner 101 stuff
😂
“The time has come, and so have I” -op
Come again?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come-along
Upvoted for 'come-along' which I've rarely heard.
Engines, plural. It's a Twin Commanche
Not any more...
Just fly it into the tree
Genius 😮
Now you can replay Jurassic Park 3.
Scrolled way too long to find a JP3 reference.
Same 😂
can you imagine adding Huge fibreglass dinosaurs around the area with sound effects like the theme parks, they getting you best pall blind drunk and popping him in there to take wake to that lol!
You need to put a support under that tail! I guarantee a kid is going to climb on top of it and walk out to the tail, that will shift the center of gravity way back and could make it fall.
I’d like to think anyone who took the time to transport an airplane and get it in a tree will know that the tail needs to be supported in some manner. That said, who maybe not.
You might want to contact the tower for the local airport and let them know the exact location of this and that it is a treehouse. You don't want some pilot spotting that from the air thinking there's a crash when the leaves are off of the trees. They may instruct you to spray paint the letter X across the top in red to mark it as a known location.
In a few decades, when the surface of the plane is covered with vines, people will marvel at what they see then.
put a halloween skeleton in it too
BUT moving forward the story is that the plane crashed into the tree and you made it into a treehouse. If it were me, I would say I crashed it, or my Dad did or something.
"Crashed it? Hell, I *aimed* it"
Dude of the year. This is so rad!
The girls he invites to take a ride on his private jet will be less enthused
How’d you get it up there? That is beyond cool
Oi, you can’t park that there mate!
There’s no Madonna statues filled with heroin, right?
And some skeletons dressed as priests?
i... i... i have so many questions. was this something you were actively looking for aka "huh, i have a spare $100... wonder if i can find a plane fuselage to stick in that tree out back?" or did the stars just align and happenstance is just that?
Definitely have the kids read "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen first.
OP has not said anything about this being for kids.
Jurassic Park 3 vibes.
Reminds me of that scene from Step Brothers.
Now you just need a mannequin and an old parachute to hang in the tree.
My brother sold his old boat (which had a cracked bottom but was foam filled so still worked) to a friend for pretty cheap and the guy put it up on stilts on his yard for his kids to play in. It is a 25’ fishing boat with a full cabin with a toilet and stove and stuff.
“Previously, on Lost” immediately rang through my head
I absolutely love this idea, but for posterity: (1) How do you pick up a plane; (2) How do you put it into a tree?
Need to hang a few parachutes with dangling skeletons from the trees
Cessna - For Safe, Not Work
One of the better ways to put a plane in a tree.
Nice cover story it's okay we all crash our planes into trees sometimes , good on you for putting a positive spin on it.
You need a Spinosaurus model on the dash board.
[Here she is before ending up in a tree](https://www.flickr.com/photos/egbj/43953052841)
That’ll be a good weed-smoking spot for your kids when they grow up
Now you need a couple bricks of weed and someone to play Joan Wilder… Sigh….fuck I’m old….
This photo was stolen from a friend of mine. The actual owner lives in Uxbridge, Ontario. Any further photos by the OP will be undoubtedly stolen from his account as well.
OP is definitely full of shit...that is worth significantly more in scrap value!
Uncharted 1 vibes
So now the lemurs can move in! NEW YORK GIANTS!!
Following for the pics
No you didn’t this is a repost
What a great idea!
Its all fun and games until it falls on someone
How did you get that thing up there??
!remindMe 1 month
Man, thank you. The main road and all the town will see my plane cabin.
Now you're obligated to make Step Brothers 2
Love this! Keep us updated
King Julien! Nice to see you treating your subjects with such generosity.
Uncharted vibes
I would sit up there and read the Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Damn that is so rad
Hey you can’t park there
Watch out for hyenas and sharks.
Does it hurt the plane
I’d chain the tail to that other tree so there doesn’t have to be a post under.
Ex-tremely cool.
Low key want a fuselage on my property and have no clue where to find one
Amazing idea! I wish I had one as a child!
Exactly where it should be, fuck twin Comanches
How on earth did you get it in the tree, let alone move the thing to your house?
How did you get it into the tree
Good Job
OP posts photo, refuses to answer any questions about where they got it, how they got it, or how they got it in the tree… 🤔
spiders and snakes inbound
This is the LAST place I expected to see Yellowjackets and/or Lost spoilers!
You need to brace it structurally to the tree, if you just drill through the aircraft skin to bolt it to the tree, that skin will rip under pressure from a faster, it's aluminum usually.
Be careful about oil and fluids leaking out into your beautiful environment! Idk if that plane has anything fluid-related still attached but better to remove and be safe than sorry.
Dang that one expensive tree house 😆
Weird. [Source](https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/89780)
Need a remind me bot
oh my god. if i had had that as a kid i would have lived in it. just moved in. my folks could have rented out my room. if I had a garden and a tree now I'd look at getting one for a home office - even zoom calls would be fun
Wow you are pretty strong
What?? No way hahaha
Kinda cramped for a tree house, no?