Wades Salvage Inc Atco, New Jersey, United States October 2025

For decades and three generations of the Wade family have been dealing or processing scrap metals here in their 12-acre yard. Some of the scrap collection includes very old and complete cars and busses. Obviously what interested me is the aircraft parts they have acquired. The aircraft have been dismantled or actually cut up before they arrived here. Piled up high in most cases the dismantled aircraft are very difficult to identify the type, let alone identify a serial or registration. Previous visitors have tried a lot harder than me to identify these aircraft parts, I have used their reports to to help me with my image captions. On the day of my visit I met Gregory Sharp whose grandfather started the Wades Salvage Inc company and the nephew of Andy Wade the current owner. He was extremely welcoming and was happy for me to make my way around the yard. His only concern was that I might get lost (or buried?) and so he took my mobile number. They apparently welcome/allow photography groups to run group sessions (including with models) here and from what I saw this would be very worth while activity.

Two aircraft noses, on the left is reported to be Boeing 707-131 (4X-JYH, N195CA ex IDFAF), on the right is from I believe a Douglas DC-6B.

Left to right: Possibly a nose section from a Douglas DC-6B. Nose of Boeing KC-97G Stratofreighter (53-0210) United States Air Force.

Left to right: A pile of Northrop F-89J on top of a of their Allison J35 Turbojet engines. Tail boom of Bell UH-1H Iroquois (59-1656) US Army. Nose from a Douglas C-133A Cargomaster (reported as (56-1998 which ended up at FAA Technical Center in Atlantic City). The nose has what looks like 'Aviation Nation' applied.

Northrop F-89J Scorpion cockpit canopy.

Left to right: Nose of Lockheed C-121G Constellation (54-4065, later registered N420NA c/n 4143). To US Navy in 1953, to NASA in 1963. Withdrawn from use by NASA and transferred to US Army at Aberdeen Proving Grounds January 1973. Sold for scrap in 1978. Forward fuselage to Wades by 2020 where the small panels were stripped for tags, by 'Planetags' in 2023. Nose section of Martin B-57A Canberra (?) United States Air Force. Fuselage of an unidentifed small aircraft like a single tailed Beech 18.

Left to right: Fuselage of North American F-100 Super Sabre (?) United States Air Force. Nose of Douglas DC-6B (N90756 c/n 43268) delivered to American Airlines in 1951 and found to be derelict at Tucson International by 1982. It was de-registered in 2013. Fuselage section of McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom (?) 123 FIS Oregon ANG and an McDonnell Douglas RF-101C Voodoo tail marked Arkansas ANG

Fuselage section of North American F-86F Sabre (?)

Left to right: Bell UH-1 Iroquois. 7 cylinder radial aircraft engine.

Left to right: Some of the very old cars that must have been here since the 1950s.