Tobul Corsair project?

[AirJimL2]

N5014 is now registered to Jim Tobul. Anyone know more about this project?

Thanks,

Jim

[paulmcmillan]

C/N 7889 F4U-4 Bu81164

crashed, NALF Charlestown RI 27.1.50
wreck buried, NALF Charlestown RI .50/77
New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks CT 17.3.77/87
(wreck excavated by Lawrence Webster 3.77)
Gerald S. Beck/ Tri-State Aviation, Wahpeton ND 1.87
N5014 Robert J. Odegaard, Kindred ND: reg. res. 17.3.87/02
(composite rest. project with Bu81857 at
Kindred ND 97/01)

[RMAllnutt]

I'd always heard that the Tobuls had enough spare corsair parts to build another one... perhaps this is the project. It must have been a very hard decision to proceed though. I wish them all the best with getting her flying again!

Richard

[tom d. friedman]

i met joe, a real gentleman & he died a hero in my book!!

[t28pilot]

Yep!

[oscardeuce]

I put Jim and Joe Tobul well into the "good people" column.

Jim will be missed,and I look forward to flying more with Joe.

[TimAPNY]

I never meet Joe but I did notice one thing at the Corsair Gathering in 2002, he had a line of poeple at his corsair letting them get up on it and look around long after the show was over. That made a impression, an impression that stung a bit when I heard of his passing.

Here are a few shots of Joe & the Cosair from the Gathering of Crsairs in 2002.















Here is Jim's SNJ-4 at the show also.



Sorry for jumping a bit off topic, but...
Tim

[Beachy]

Years ago, a guy that I was dating gave me a data plate from a Corsair (what a romantic!) that he found while goofing around down at the old Charlestown base (that was an activity we all took part in, growing up here!) -- I wonder if it's from the same a/c? I don't know if there was more than one Corsair that bashed up here..........

[krlang]

Hmmm,

Shannon only wants a ring, What is a corsair data plate worth?


That was one hell of an airplane operated by some really good people.
I was glad to see it when I did and saddened by their passing.

[phil65]

For putting up with you Kenny,she should get the whole Corsair