Look out! I'm coming in

[Jim Kraft]

Guess this guy saw the land office and went for it.

[Elwyn Aud]

At least it looks like it should have been a survivable accident. Must not have been moving too fast and the collapsing roof structure probably acted a bit like a cushion. On closer examination it almost looks like the plane might have been put there on purpose.

[Clancy Arnold]

I think it was put there, check the guy cables on the tail.
Clancy

[Jim Kraft]

You are right Clancy. Saw this in Clifton Kansas on a motorcycle ride. I have no idea what the story behind it is, but I guess every small town has to have something to put it on the map. One of the guys in our group took the picture. Thought it was ironic that the land office showed up in the background. You just never know what you are going to find when traveling the back roads. Down the road a few miles from here there was a herd of buffalo in a pasture.

[Clancy Arnold]

Jim
We have had those in Indianapolis.

One was a plane setting on top of a huge mound of mulch beside I-465 on the northwest corner of the city.  After so many calls to the police they placed a sign by it that said it has been reported.  LOL

The other one is a Cessna 150 on floats on a pole above a restaurant on the northeast corner of the city.  When the prop is turning the restaurant is open.  It is located beside I-69 about 1/2 mile north of I-465.

Clancy

[Tim Wescott]

That is a pretty common attitude for a true "plane in a roof" crash.  But usually the roof looks like a plane has crashed into it.  If you look, you'll see that the roof is perfectly flat underneath the plane, not stove in like all the pictures I've seen of that sort of crash.  And I certainly don't see wrinkles and/or splinters in the fuselage.

[Jeff Traxler]

Hi Jim,Your photo says Steen Skybolt.That is a Pitts.Probably the older S1C version with the non-symetrical bottom wing and open cockpit.That version compared to the S1S is like flying a Banshee and then flying a modern piped stunter.Jeff

[Jim Kraft]

Could very well be a Pitts. I was going more by the paint job I guess. Looks a lot like a Skybolt.

[Mike Scholtes]

Yeah, I figured in a moment it was a staged scene: no visible damage to plane or building! I agree it is probably an old S1S, maybe a homebuilt. May have been sacrificed for this odd use due to some prior damage that made it un-airworthy, which is where the "plane on a stick" thing seems to come from.

I learned akro in an S2B, and it pains me to see any Pitts end up like this.
 

[Jim Kraft]

OK guys. Here is another picture. Notice how the cabane struts go out to the edge of the wing center section. Could it be an EAA Acrosport? I'm confused now. Some would say always.