Champaign Aviation Museum *PICS*

[Shay]

Future home of Champaign Lady. She'll be in good company. Do yourself a favor and make some time to visit this museum. Friendly people and you can get up close and see some beautiful machines.

Open the floodgates

http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f321/ChimChim3/Champagne%20Aviation%20Museum/?start=all





Hopefully she'll be ready in time for the Reunion






































































A little bit of Local Heritage..









































































My opinion on the new Museum? I Dig It!!


Shay
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Last edited by Shay on Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[CAPFlyer]

I'm glad to see that 105CA found a good home. She sat at Columbus for years still in Desert's ownership, but in Air Tahoma's care. When I was at HMA the mechanics did some basic checks on it periodically, so she was still in basically airworthy shape. When Bud sold Desert N153PA, my understanding was that the DC-3 was "sold" to Air Tahoma as part of the transaction. With the shutdown of HMA, I was hoping at least a few of their birds, if they didn't find homes flying revenue, they'd find some good museums as several of the aircraft are very deserving (the CV-240s are all T-29s or VC-131s) and one of the CV-580s is C/N 7.

[Shay]

I'm glad to see that 105CA found a good home. She sat at Columbus for years still in Desert's ownership, but in Air Tahoma's care. When I was at HMA the mechanics did some basic checks on it periodically, so she was still in basically airworthy shape. When Bud sold Desert N153PA, my understanding was that the DC-3 was "sold" to Air Tahoma as part of the transaction. With the shutdown of HMA, I was hoping at least a few of their birds, if they didn't find homes flying revenue, they'd find some good museums as several of the aircraft are very deserving (the CV-240s are all T-29s or VC-131s) and one of the CV-580s is C/N 7.

I really like this C-47. I look forward to her turn at restoration. You can still see the remnant outline of the Stars and Bars on her wing panels. As I understand it this C-47's ferry flight down from Columbus was nothing short of epic.

More of it's background:




Shay
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[Shay]

Neat pictures for comparison. One taken this past Saturday the other taken in October 1942.



http://www.shorpy.com/node/1811?size=_original



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[Pat Carry]

Nice set of photos, thanks for sharing. I guess I had not realized the museum had acquired this many aircraft.

[Holedigger]

Nice collection! It is also good to see all those red pipes up in the rafters..FOAM or just water?....must learn hard lessons from other's hangar fires. Hopefully it helps with the insurance rates as well. Really hate it when entire collections go up in smoke.

[bdk]

As someone from Illinois, I urge you to check your spelling!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champaign,_Illinois

[b17warbirdguru]

Nice set of photos, thanks for sharing. I guess I had not realized the museum had acquired this many aircraft.

It is my understanding that a few of these aircraft are not entirely part of the "collection", but rather are temporarily being housed in the extra hangar space.

[k5083]

As someone from Illinois, I urge you to check your spelling!

Yeah but you have to admit Champagne Lady sounds a lot classier. I'd rather date one than a Champaign lady any day.

August

[Shay]

As someone from Illinois, I urge you to check your spelling!

The OCD cup runneth over, eeh?

Ha ha. Wow! I've totally been spelling it wrong,.... on purpous. In my head it felt right to spell it that way. Weird I work in the Electrical Engineering field and as such my spelling has slowly gone down hill over the years.

Thanks for the correction.

Shay
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[bdk]

The worse I get, the older I am...