Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Sun Oct 15, 2017 11:30 am
Did anyone get this Hellcat? What about the other airframes that were at the museum?
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Sun Oct 15, 2017 1:42 pm
a Vietnam history group from Pennsylvania (altoona area) got their Mig
Don't know much more other than I saw them packing it up on FB
Tom Bowers
Don't know much more other than I saw them packing it up on FB
Tom Bowers
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Sun Oct 15, 2017 2:44 pm
The CAF wing in Arizona got the TBM Avenger. It will be restored to fly.
Would love to hear any developments on the Hellcat. Even if the Navy still owns it, another Hellcat on static display somewhere is a good thing.
Would love to hear any developments on the Hellcat. Even if the Navy still owns it, another Hellcat on static display somewhere is a good thing.
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Sun Oct 15, 2017 9:53 pm
kalamazookid wrote:The CAF wing in Arizona got the TBM Avenger. It will be restored to fly.
Would love to hear any developments on the Hellcat. Even if the Navy still owns it, another Hellcat on static display somewhere is a good thing.
I would like to see it go to Pima
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Mon Oct 16, 2017 12:08 am
Pat Carry wrote:kalamazookid wrote:The CAF wing in Arizona got the TBM Avenger. It will be restored to fly.
Would love to hear any developments on the Hellcat. Even if the Navy still owns it, another Hellcat on static display somewhere is a good thing.
I would like to see it go to Pima
Why ? Pima all ready has a TBM
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Mon Oct 16, 2017 2:37 am
Matt Gunsch wrote:Why ? Pima all ready has a TBM
But they don't have a Hellcat...
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:16 am
airnutz wrote:But they don't have a Hellcat...
They did, but they didn't take care of it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/classic_a ... 2158092110
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/model/Grum ... %20Hellcat
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Mon Oct 16, 2017 8:53 am
Matt Gunsch wrote:Pat Carry wrote:kalamazookid wrote:The CAF wing in Arizona got the TBM Avenger. It will be restored to fly.
Would love to hear any developments on the Hellcat. Even if the Navy still owns it, another Hellcat on static display somewhere is a good thing.
I would like to see it go to Pima
Why ? Pima all ready has a TBM
Ugh - not another 'painted plane' - I am glad it will go to where she will be restored to flying!
Tom P.
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Mon Oct 16, 2017 11:57 am
Matt Gunsch wrote:Pat Carry wrote:kalamazookid wrote:The CAF wing in Arizona got the TBM Avenger. It will be restored to fly.
Would love to hear any developments on the Hellcat. Even if the Navy still owns it, another Hellcat on static display somewhere is a good thing.
I would like to see it go to Pima
Why ? Pima all ready has a TBM
I meant the Hellcat.
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Mon Oct 16, 2017 10:57 pm
Oddly, yesterday I wondered what happened to the former Pima Hellcat?
I saw it many times...IIRC, I believe it was in a display hangar for awhile.
Recovered from the Pacific?
I saw it many times...IIRC, I believe it was in a display hangar for awhile.
Recovered from the Pacific?
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Mon Oct 16, 2017 11:02 pm
JohnB wrote:Oddly, yesterday I wondered what happened to the former Pima Hellcat?
I saw it many times...IIRC, I believe it was in a display hangar for awhile.
Recovered from the Pacific?
It was recovered from the Pacific. Now at the NMNA in Pensacola as I recall
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Tue Oct 17, 2017 6:32 am
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Tue Oct 17, 2017 10:04 am
So the questions remains... what happened to the Hellcat project? In addition what happened to the very nice replica Hellcat that supposedly has never flown?
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Tue Oct 17, 2017 11:27 am
I can confirm the Pima Hellcat resides at NNAM in P'cola.
Please tell me more about the "replica Hellcat".. I'm not familiar with this one.
Was it the aforementioned F6F at Quonset??
Curious,
Owen
Please tell me more about the "replica Hellcat".. I'm not familiar with this one.
Was it the aforementioned F6F at Quonset??
Curious,
Owen
Re: Hellcat at the now closed Quonset Air Museum
Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:12 pm
JOMiller wrote:Please tell me more about the "replica Hellcat".. I'm not familiar with this one.
Was it the aforementioned F6F at Quonset??
Curious,
Owen
F6F Replica
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled ... /1354747/L
http://www.williammaloney.com/Aviation/ ... /index.htm
F6F-5 70185
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/f6fregis ... 70185.html
http://aircraft-in-focus.com/grumman-f6f-hellcat/