The number "12" on the top of the rudder.

And on the very top was an insignia of a knight with a sheid and sword. Looks like someone tried to remove him.

Me with the fin gives an idea of it's size. Time to leave. The sun is about to set and I would like to find the engine before it gets dark.

On the way back to the truck, I searched the area I thought the engine might be in for about 45 minutes before I found it. I'll spend the night nearby and return in the morning to get some photos, it's too dark now.

I had the laptop with me, so while eating dinner, I used a topo program to mark the locations of the fin and engine. They were a good distance apart which was a good thing. Being so far apart made it easy to get a line on the wreckage. I drew a line connecting the two locations and beyond. I figured that the engine probably ended up at the end of the debris field, so the plan for tomorrow is to check out the engine, then head to the fin and beyond trying to stay on my line.

Back at the engine site that I found last night.

It was buried, but someone has uncovered a section of it.

Front end of the engine.

Looks like it was buried just below the surface. Thinking that it was either the Navy or Park Service that buried it.

Blued titanium.