Cross Winds Airport (C72) - Abandoned

Cross Winds Airport in Clayton, WA was abandoned after a 2014 windstorm destroyed two of its three hangars. The airfield was tilled and turned into a crop field, and the last airplane, a 1948 Ryan Navion (N4616K), was left to rot. The hangar still stands, and I visit the Navion every summer because I can't help but feel sad for it.

[@DavidKozinski]

Poor ole Navion. Flown in one here a long time ago.

[@HarryCowl]

Sweet little plane in her shed... So shameful that some people broke the plexiglas windows !

[@jamesgamerguy3]

ive seen worse things be braught back to life. parts will probably be impossible to find but nothing stoppin it from getting certified as expiramental !

[@nealmewes4973]

I landed there once in a 172😊

[@bernardanderson3758]

That Navion can be saved

[@av8r376]

Good luck, I’d love to see it fly again!

[@bernardanderson3758]

I know a guy that does that type of work!!!!

[@kevintaylor791]

@therealjimmysworld now THIS would be a great "will it start" episode.

[@EllsworthJohnson-ui1xm]

Obvious vandalism on this aircraft

[@mouser485]

That’d take a lot of money to get airworthy, assuming you could even do it. It might be eat up with corrosion. Hate to see planes just sitting and rotting.

[@stephenqueen7686]

Sad old bird .quick get a battery and fuel

[@user-nn3xy4xt7i]

Здесь когда то жизнь била ключом, что он там делает такой унылый, и забытый😊

[@RaysDad]

These old airplanes are expensive to fly so the owners store them and forget them.

[@loranboggs]

@av8r376 My grandfather used to own this aircraft, I would like to get in touch with the current owner would you happen to have any information?

[@av8r376]

Unfortunately I don’t, not beyond anything already available online. Looks like the current owner is Ronald D Brown, who appears to live in Arizona. Look up the tail number and you’ll get an address for him; couldn’t hurt to send a letter.