B24 Collision over DV 1944

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Wondering what the total of downed aircraft in the park is.  Obviously there's the Albatross on Towne.  I've heard of another B24 crash landing in Saline Valley.

In an area the size of Connecticut, it's probably quite a few! I know of about a dozen military wrecks, not including debris like targets or dropped fuel tanks. The amount of debris on those ranges from whole wrecks to scattered jetsam. I did a quick NTSB incident report search (comprehensive since ~2002, pretty good to about 1965) and there have been dozens of private plane crashes in light aircraft ranging from hard landings at landing strips (a lot of those at Chicken Strip in Saline) to controlled flight into terrain incidents. Most light aircraft get removed by helicopter, so there isn't much wreckage from those. Military aircraft still crash in the park once in a while, including the F-18 at Rainbow Canyon a couple years ago and an F-22 down by the Owlsheads in 2009.

There's probably a lot of stuff laying around out there from times before rigorous cleanup was the norm.