No, we're not tripping through time with Desmond. The derelict and overgrown plane found in Lost has become a prevalent symbol for a deserted island that's anything but. It also seems to be just as prevalent in the real world.
Oobject has a roundup of photos of real abandoned planes that are begging to be sets of yet another mysterious island creature feature.
Here are a few we think we've seen before.
And this may as well be the cockpit Jack and Kate climb into only to come face to face with the smoke monster.
Image: The Digital Mirage
This surely is the heroin hijacker poor Boone crawled into before it came tumbling down.
Image: RoadTransport.com
Image: Maam
This Japanese Fighter Jet looks more like an X-Wing Starfighter than something from our galaxy.
Image: tallshipstales.de
DISCUSSION
Japanese Fighter? that the ass end of a Mitsubishi G4M "betty" bomber.
and the other looks like a Lockheed Super Electra/Hudson. But I think that it is a Hudson from what appears to be a hole for a top turret behind those branches.