Warbird Information Exchange

These were all taken at Love Field in 1985, when I worked at Associated Air Center.

The cleanest radial engines I have ever seen on this one.



Tinsley's Chicken "Yardbird"



Texas Instruments-we never asked what they did with this plane!



JMC

It's been a long time since I've seen a DC-3 with a full Dee Howard installation. N132 BB is now a LANCAIR.

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When I worked in Conroe, TX (CXO) N132BB would occasionally come through. This was around 1979-1980. The bottom of the wing said "BOSSBIRD" On the tail it said "If there's a better piece of chicken the roosters got it". Must have been a prior paint job. The 1985 paint job looks a little more PC!

Aircraft was based at Huntsville (HTV) and owned by the Tinsley family who owned a chain of chicken restaurants also based out of Huntsville. Not sure what happened to the Tinsley chain. If I recall the aircraft was a former C-49. Don't know why I remembered that...

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Bill Goebel
aka TPFD

Vintage Aircraft Services
Aircraft restoration and rebuilding
Rhome, TX

http://www.vintageaircraftservices.net

"Bossbird" makes way more sense. I was making an assumption based on a limited memory! I am glad you knew the 'Rest of the story', thank you.

JMC

PS. I did look up Tinsley's on the web, apparently there is still at least one store down near Houston somewhere.

Bob Pond bought this airplane and it became Miss Angela. It was traded off as part of the deal for the B-17. It has since lost its pre war Navy paint job and last I heard is in Texas. I think we were told it was a C-41A...

49, 41, whatever it takes...

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Bill Goebel
aka TPFD

Vintage Aircraft Services
Aircraft restoration and rebuilding
Rhome, TX

http://www.vintageaircraftservices.net

It looks nice and shiny theses days...or at least it did in 2010:

Link to picture of it landing at Oshkosh

'Impressed' DC-3's taken from airlines got different model numbers assigned depending on the engines, radios, cabin door and location (left or right side, swing down airstair or hinged) so the correct manuals and procedures were used, who was her original operator/customer?
After the war, airplanes were released pell mell to the original customers, but little to no attention was paid to equipment beyond engine types so UNTIED for example could have gotten a large number of left handed door airplanes to 'back fill' on it's taken right hand door standard setup and carriers put big arrows on the instrument panel so the Captain wouldn't arrive at it's destination and turn the airplane so the entry door faces out on the ramp and not facing the terminal
Dee Howard did a land office business converting C-47's into DC-3C's for PAN AM and others with passenger doors instead of cargo doors, extra fuel tankage, and they developed the equipment seen on BOSSBIRD which added a few extra knots to cruising speeds.

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i'd like to see some of the pre- war douglas dc-3 / Japanese tabby version w/ the elongated flight deck windows! pre- war license built of course by the soon to be enemy!!

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Sentimental Journeys (N97H) was bought later by Bud Field and restored to better than new condition. Prior to his passing, he sold it to Steve Hiller (son of helicopter builder Stanley Hiller Jr) and it is flown around the SF Bay Area on a regular basis, making it to several air shows each year. Although this pictures a few years old, this is what she looks like now: http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000012221.html

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Roger Cain
www.sfahistory.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stearman/


We must limit politicians to two terms:
one in office and one in jail.

The paint job reminds me of the Otis Spunkmeyer fleet of years past, was it one of the cookie companies air tours fleet?

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yes, Bud Field bought it from Otis Spunkmeyer when they sold off all non-cookie business related properties. They had two DC-3's, the second one was NC41HQ, a C-41 (38-502). I had the pleasure of flying in both under Spunkmeyer's ownership, and twice when it was owned by Bud Field, once during the 70th Anniversary of the DC-3 which included a touch and go at SFO Airport.

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Roger Cain
www.sfahistory.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stearman/


We must limit politicians to two terms:
one in office and one in jail.