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where are they now?...16

Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:51 pm

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Cheers,

Jeff :spit

Re: where are they now?...16

Sun Feb 05, 2012 3:05 pm

Didn't that burn to a crisp on landing??? (forced that is).

Looks like 9252 when I saw it the first time (different planes of course)

Mark H

Re: where are they now?...16

Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:01 pm

Not sure about the Mustang but the DC-3 in the background, C-FDTH, is currently stored in Red Deer Alberta without the Canadian Coast Guard titles (black lettering seen on the fuselage) on it anymore.

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Re: where are they now?...16

Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:56 pm

CWH's CF-BAU (#1) which was pretty much destroyed in a forced landing south of Massey, Ontario in 1982.
It was rebuilt at Chino and is now flying as 'Petie 2nd'

http://www.mustangsmustangs.us/p-51/?su ... l/44-73140
http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... =3&t=33330

:partyman:

Re: where are they now?...16

Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:20 pm

Yep, except for the date of the accident--July 7, 1984. (All three Canadian fighters in CWH's fleet--Mustang, Corsair, Hurricane--had been photographed together in the air during the '84 airshow week, the Hurricane having arrived from Scotland in May.)

"BAU" was essentially a total loss after the accident near Massey; I still have a couple photos of what was left--basically the tailcone and one stab--in crates in Hgr#3 later in 1984. Nonetheless she reappeared on the CCAR not long afterward as C-GZQX with an owner in Alberta, then the ID moved to California, the resulting lovely 352FG-schemed Mustang being completed around 1989/90 for Gordon Plaskett. American reg was/is N314BG.

S.

Re: where are they now?...16

Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:26 pm

Now based in Houston area.
VL

Re: where are they now?...16

Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:57 pm

Steve T wrote:Yep, except for the date of the accident--July 7, 1984.

:oops: Sorry, my bad.... stoopid internet!!!

Re: where are they now?...16

Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:04 pm

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Remnants of CF-BAU #1
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CF-BAU #2

Re: where are they now?...16

Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:00 pm

I am in continual awe of what folks out there can rebuild into a flyer! thank heaven for the $$ and determination people have to save some of these old birds.

Tom P.

Re: where are they now?...16

Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:16 pm

Wendover. I would think that the only piece of that airplane that is still flying on the rebuild is a stack of paper, some log books and possibly a metal plate about 3" X 2". Even that plate is probably new.

Does anybody know what airplane became Gunfighter after the original crashed in the 80s? I know that airplane had at least a fuselage swap. Nobody was really building fuselages at that time. It was still a remove and replace culture then.
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