Sam Houston Airport 1947

Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:38 pm

Interesting pic of the long-gone Sam Houston Airport in Houston. Quite a variety of aircraft on the ramp! So who can identify all of them? :wink:

Are the 3 aircraft in the lower right Mustangs?

Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:45 pm

I doubt those three on the lower right are Mustangs. Noses are too short, for one thing. Also they look like they have long birdcages, and they are not that much bigger than the highwings by the hangar

Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:55 pm

Something about them says Vultee to me - maybe BT-13/15?

Randy

Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:56 pm

What happened to the Randy Wilson quizzes, I still want a pony, maybe just a party dog.

Fri Dec 05, 2008 6:49 pm

Saville wrote:I doubt those three on the lower right are Mustangs. Noses are too short, for one thing. Also they look like they have long birdcages, and they are not that much bigger than the highwings by the hangar

And the wings don't come off that way unless you use a SkilSaw (TM). BT-13 wings come off just outboard of the gear like that though.

Fri Dec 05, 2008 9:58 pm

Those are BT-13's - I can see the parts I need from here! :wink:

Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:03 pm

The large top one sure looks like a B-24.

Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:10 pm

I can see a B-24, some BT-13's, some Seabees, Cubs, and I think an Aeronca Champ.

Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:56 pm

Is that a Cessna "bamboo - bomber" close to the round roof hanger ?

Woody

Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:11 am

The B-24 is very interesting!

I wonder what that story is?

927???

Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:56 am

It may be possible that the B-24 is 927, but tough to say for sure. Continental Can did get the airplane from Consolidated back in 1947, but I can't recall just when. If it is our B-24 in the picture, that's a brand new civilian paint job on it there. :-)

Gary

Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:04 pm

A few more pics of the airfield here (this site is a great asset to finding little know or lost airfields)

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/TX/Air ... samhouston

Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:39 am

Continental Can flew it in NMF for a while according to a gentleman I met last winter. He was flying out of their home field and distinctly remembered it being unpainted at first.

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Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:42 am

Wasn't it in NMF with a couple of red stripes ?

Sun Dec 07, 2008 11:44 am

That seems to confirm what the fellow I talked to last year said, Rick. He thought it was NMF for somewhere around a year give-or-take a little.

Scott