What kind of airplane is this?

[Ztex]

Mexican registration in the CAF hanger at Harlingen 1978.

Anyone know what it is?

Thanks.




Plus I have a few more shots of the CAF ramp dated February 1978...any one interested?

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[bipe215]

Looks like a Fleet. Model 16?

Steve G

[Jerry O'Neill]

Definitely a Fleet, I think a 16B.
Jerry

[Ztex]

I see! Thanks!

So there seems to be another Fleet right behind this one...see the logo on the tail...it seems to match the one on the fuselage ...doh!


Anyone know the ID on this airplane? Whereabouts today? I wonder if it was an airshow act?

???

[bipe215]

Ztex said:
Plus I have a few more shots of the CAF ramp dated February 1978...any one interested?


Yes please more!!!

Steve G

[k5083]

Quite a few 16Bs went to Mexico after the war, and many of the preserved ones came back from there.

That looks like the tail of a second one on the right edge of the pic.

Plus I have a few more shots of the CAF ramp dated February 1978...any one interested?

Post warbird pictures? Huh, well, okay. But only if you promise to insult somebody and start a big argument. We have customs around here, you know.

August

[Tulio]

Air Britain's "Central America and the Caribbean Civil Aircraft Registers (1978) has the following:

XB-ZOQ

Fleet "FL-7301" sold to Confederate Air Force "Harlington" Texas


Saludos,


Tulio

[bilwor]

Zane,
CAF Rio Grande Valley Wing has a Fleet 16B c/n 383 N16BR. Maybe you can contact them and maybe they could tell you the history of it. I could be either Fleet in your photo.
bill word