Warbird Information Exchange

I'm not sure if you saw my post at the top of page 7 of this thread, where I listed about 100 of the heavier-hitters with regard to warbirds in attendance this year: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=74485&start=90

I didn't include Tony Phillippi's Howard 500, even though it was parked in warbirds - EAA probably did count that as one of the warbirds.

That means about 260 would have been the single-engine prop and jet trainers, and liaison types, which I didn't cover in my list.

Yes, I saw your list of the "usual suspects"... the big name types. Thanks for posting them.
I was asking more about the "little guys"...the trainers, etc.
Just curious and trying to get a feel about the relative popularity of various types.

I'd assume the EAA would call all Stearman 75s "warbirds", but I wonder about other types...for example would they call call all Beech 17s (or even 18s) warbirds?

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I believe it's all a matter as to where they park - Garbs would be able to confirm or deny if that's true. For instance, from my understanding, if a Stearman, Beech 18 or DC-3 only parks in Vintage, it doesn't get counted in Warbirds, but if the same aircraft parks in Warbirds, then it is counted as a warbird. Warren Pietsch's P-51C likely got counted twice, once for Vintage and once for Warbird, since it spent time parked in both locations during the week. The fantastic Royal Navy-finished Beech Staggerwing N16S only parked in Vintage and was registered in Vintage, so therefore would likely not have been included in EAA's warbird numbers.

Workin' on it. Busy weekend, so it might not be until Monday.

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Pretty much true. We used to scour the field for Warbirds and try to get them into the count, whether they chose to display up by us or not. Now we limit that to ones on Boeing Plaza. We do count the occasional active military plane if they join Warbirds and elect to be judged - they will never be Grand Champion, but they do get a nice plaque to hang in the O Club back home.

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