A 4th of July in Navy Color

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:06 pm

What no Yellow birds?

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7566

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:38 pm

Great shots! Love the color! Those last two of Hellcat "509" were taken at Trumbull Airport in Groton, CT. That hangar in the background was still there a few years ago but it's been demolished.

Jerry

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:22 pm

HA, seen em already.

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7566

tulsaboy · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:51 pm

While you're looking for more crop dusters, see if you can't find the true needle in the haystack- a Spartan NP-1 in the middle of all those yellow trainers... please?

kevin

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7566

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:08 pm

Mark Allen M wrote:

N3Njeff wrote:

HA, seen em already.

I'll have to try harder

Going to need to get up pretty early

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7566

tulsaboy · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:16 pm

Mark Allen M-
I second N3N's response- been there, done that! Actually, that photo was sent to me years ago by a Naval historial, I think with the NHC. We enlarged it, and a version of that photo is now about 15 feet tall and constitutes the backdrop for our museum's display of the only surviving intact NP-1. I have a poster size version in my office. So count me as a fan of that image! Got any more???

kevin

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7566

mazdaP5 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:57 am

Thanks for posting the Grosse Ile stuff, it's right down the street from me.

whistlingdeath77 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:22 am

got to love the color! thanks for posting, i'd love to see more

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7566

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