LSFMs Avenger at Pearland
Wed Mar 30, 2016 6:14 pm
Dont know why but it was unloaded off a Flatbed by crane today, guess another one was sold??
Re: LSFMs Avenger at Pearland
Thu Mar 31, 2016 9:07 am
Not an early April fools day joke btw.
Re: LSFMs Avenger at Pearland
Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:29 am
The story I heard from a Pearland based pilot buddy is that a local SWA pilot has bought Lone Star's TBM, AT-11 and N3N. Maybe they're clearing out the flood damaged fleet before moving to Ellington?
Re: LSFMs Avenger at Pearland
Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:03 pm
Would this be the TBM they've had for a long while? I've lost track of LSFM doings.
Man, that AT-11 was NICE -- if anything broke my heart when Ike hosed the place, it was that airplane (and the F3F). I'll just be forever grateful the DC-3 made it out (after taxiing through a foot of water was the story I heard). The AT-11 had to have been the most pristine example on the planet before the storm.
(Pretty nice the A-20 was outta there by that time too...)
Man, that AT-11 was NICE -- if anything broke my heart when Ike hosed the place, it was that airplane (and the F3F). I'll just be forever grateful the DC-3 made it out (after taxiing through a foot of water was the story I heard). The AT-11 had to have been the most pristine example on the planet before the storm.
(Pretty nice the A-20 was outta there by that time too...)
Re: LSFMs Avenger at Pearland
Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:23 pm
Pogo wrote: The AT-11 had to have been the most pristine example on the planet before the storm.
It should have been - it was dead stock military when I saw it at the Victory Air Museum in 1980. The photos don't show it too well, but you could still see the shadows of the postwar buzz number TC-240 (42-37240), the sprayed-on ferry registration N7341C, plus the data block that referred to it as a "T-11".
