Mark Allen M wrote:
quemerford wrote:
Lovely photos Mark. Many thanks!
The information you posted was solid gold as usual. May I ask for you to post it again? I’d like to add it to my archives.
Thanks kindly
Mark
Certainly: I assumed folks were having more fun guessing what it might have all been about:
23021 first flight 24 October 1953, then to 11 Technical Services Unit at Canadair 11 January 1955 for conversion as shown; then to National Aeronautical Establishment, Uplands on 3 February 1955. However looking at those dates, I'd strongly suspect that the conversion was done Oct53 thru Jan55 and that the 11 TSU assignment was for acceptance etc.
Then back to 11 TSU 10 December 1956, "...for restoration to original configuration and embodiment of all outstanding 6A and 6B mods" and assigned to 1 (F) OTU at Chatham on 12 August 1957. Retired to 6 RD Mountain View 22 September 1969 and sold to Maritime Aircraft Overhaul & Repair Ltd of Moncton NB (David S McEwen) and on to Flight Systems Inc, of Mojave CA (registered N1049D May 1979); converted to QF-86E drone for US Army and written off on 1 February 1980 after ground station malfunction at White Sands NM.
I still think it's beer-related.