Something you don't often see...last flight of a T-28, w/pic

[adflyer]

The Minnesota Air Guard Museum received a T-28 last Friday which was delivered via Chinook helicopter. It was slingloaded to Minneapolis all the way from Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. The plane is in pretty good shape and still has almost all of its military equipment, excluding a couple of gages. We'll probably start working on it pretty soon and it will compliment the museum's Mustang and AT-6 well.

[Nathan]

Where did it come from? AMARC?

[rwdfresno]

Also have video here: http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=13241

[mustangdriver]

Now that is how ta get a delivery.

[Scotty G]

Was there any damage from the straps?

[RareBear]

Nathan,

It was slingloaded to Minneapolis all the way from Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland.

[adflyer]

There was a slight bit of buckling on the belly just behind the wings but I don't think it was necessarily from this lift. There was some damage before because, believe it or not, this airplane has been slingloaded several times in its life from what I understand. It doesn't look too bad though. There will definately be lots of cleanup due since it sat in the weeds for many years and there are some shrubs in the cockpit. I hadn't been involved in an operation like this before so it was quite a learning experience. We had to build spoilers for the wings, feather the prop, remove the flaps, lock the flight controls, and lastly free-up the canopy which was stuck slightly open before it could be flown out.

[Jack Cook]

What's the Bu/No?
I'll check my step-dad's logs.
He flew about 50 different Bs &Cs.

[John Kerr]

T-28B 138206, N# 5493G had been requested in 1984.

[O.P.]

Very cool! My friend Dan has been telling about those birds at Aberdeen. He saw them years ago when he was test piloting around there. He said there was plants growing through some of them. He said that they were willing to trade, but at the time they wanted a russian helicopter.

It's cool to see one being taken care of now.

That "Buckling" you see is probably just above the baggage compartment on each side. You would be hard pressed to see a T-28B-C that doesn't have it.

You can kind of see it here, right above the baggage compartment door opening.

[RMAllnutt]

Good to see this bird come out of Aberdeen. I remember seeing her, along with 10 others back about 10 years ago. They weren't shrubs growing up around them.... but trees! Some of them were several inches thick. Must have been sat there for a couple of decades.

Cheers,
Richard

[RickH]

Apparently there was a cat fight over the T-28s and F-105s at Aberdeen last summer. I have it on good authority that the NMUSAF and the NMNA were fighting over the T-28s. Ed Wolverton at TACOM got mad and told the Aberdeen boys to bulldoze whatever wasn't already allocated.

[rwdfresno]

Ed Wolverton at TACOM got mad and told the Aberdeen boys to bulldoze whatever wasn't already allocated.

That sounds like a typical TACOM response. TACOM seems to care very little about preserving anything and are much more fond of confiscating everything they can get away with.