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General Motors FM-2 Wildcat BuNo 55585 NX681S

Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat BuNo 70222 N1078Z

Goodyear FG-1D Corsair BuNo 92468 N9964Z



Lockheed P-38L Lighting 44-27053 N345 later N577JB

Bell P-63A Kingcobra 42-68941 N191H

De Havilland TT Mk 35 Mosquito RAF RS709 N9797

Does the CAF still have a Mosquito?

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

AF Museum at Wright-Patterson

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Don't touch my junk!!

Really. I wondered where we got that from.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

Strathlahan collection for the USAF museum Mossie, no?

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

I am not sure where it came from. I don't think it says so on the sign.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

RS709 went back to WOGB (Doug Arnold) and then to USAFM, Strathallan Mossi went to Kermit Weeks...CAFs other Mossi RG300 was broken up and destroyed..apparantly some parts are left ...

That is sad. Poor poor Mossie.

Cheers,
David

There are parts left, but not at the CAF. They were just sold to a private collector last summer.

Gary

What went wrongwith it. Why did it end up scrap?

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

That's a good question! I must have started with deterioration of the wood structure, but that doesn't mean the plane needs to be destroyed and parted out. It could have still been a static display.

SIGH....

David

I've asked that same question a hundred times and nobody seems to have the answer.

Gary

The answer is already on the boards...... from Doug Jeanes, Dec '05

"Just to add on the Mosquito. It was a pile of wood scrapes that I believe came from one that sat at San Antonio airport for years before ending up in harlingen. I've only been around 26 years in the CAF, but I remember the Mosquito as just a few pieces. I also saw it in SA years before. The CG4A's- some belonged to the silent wings museum and were loaned to the CAF. They took them back when they had the room at the new Lubbock location. The R4B had a group out of El Paso who wanted to rebuild it. One of the main problems was the transmission which could not be located. The one with it was not the proper one, I believe."

The whole thread is here...... Alan

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Just call me Al.

I remember looking at that Mossie at San Antonio International in the mid 60s' and falling through the wing back to the ground. I was a lot younger and a lot lighter back then so I would say rot was pretty well set in. ( Is there a statue of limitations on that kind of thing?) Anyway there could not have been much left by the time it got to Harligen. Anybody have pics of those relics, C-119s',C-47s, etc. that were just east of the aiport entrance where Millionaire is tody?