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[Matt Gunsch]

I have other photos from the show. No more BT-13s, but there were a couple P-51s, some nice T-6s, a Dakota, a nice twin Beech and other stuff. Don’t know how many of these were in the Freedom flight but happy to scan and post some more.

August

Who wants BTs, Bring on the 6s.... One of the 51s was Dick James flying Tabasco, the Beech 18 was a AT-11 flown by Mark Lundell and his family

[k5083]

Ok will start scanning ... I recall one of the 6’s was Harrison’s hat-in-the-ring bird that took grand champ at Oshkosh back in ‘77. I hadn’t seen it since the early 80s and it still looked great ... more to come.

August

[k5083]

First batch of photos from the 1995 McGuire AFB event.

John Harrison's lovely AT-6A, 41-153 N94444



Part of the T-6 lineup.



The East Coast Skytypers were sponsored by the MCI wireless company at that time.



I don't have an ID on this one. Let me know if you do.



T-6G 51-14913, N257DB



As Matt said, P-51 44-74417 "Tabasco" was there.



The other P-51 attending was 44-72922, supposedly Robin Olds' original "Scat VII."



August

[Matt Gunsch]

Was hoping you had gotten some of Carl's plane. It was funny with Dick James, he did the leg from Aurora, ILL to Dayton, OH and had so much fun, he flew the rest of the event.

[k5083]

Which one was Carl's? Something's wrong with the Warbird Registry entry for his plane; it lists it has having been registered N35CE, N3286 and N25CE over the years, but the photo is of a plane wearing N36CA.

August

[Matt Gunsch]

I have asked scott to change the picture for years, but it was N2757G

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[Lon Moer]

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The other P-51 attending was 44-72922, supposedly Robin Olds' original "Scat VII."



August

Another Unlimited air racer - Learstang #19 "Vendetta" - turned into a TF.

[k5083]

More from the 1995 McGuire show. Sorry, it looks like I don't have a photo of Carl's T-6.

Dakota Mk.III KG395, RCAF 12919, registered N99FS. Later used to support the recovery of the P-38 "Glacier Girl" in Greenland.



C-47 42-32832 N5106X, operating at the time with Bygone Aviation, now with the Mid America Flight Museum.



C-47 42-32833 N25641 with Legend Airways.



A nice Bobcat, not sure which one this is; maybe someone can confirm. Possibly N51838?



AT-11 43-10427 N500AM



I took the opportunity to walk through the base and take a bunch of pictures of the infamous P-38 44-53015 which had been airworthy and flown onto the base, then mounted on a pylon out in the weather some years before. Air Classics made a big fuss about it at the time. Whatever one thought of that mag, I had to agree with them on this one.



August

[Matt Gunsch]

The DC-3 had all ready been used to recover Glacier Girl, she was dug up in 92, Freedom Flight was in 95.

[LARGEFLYER]

I am thinking that the T-50 (UC-78) Bobcat with 415 on the side belongs to Larry Kelley of Georgetown, DE

[Rod Schneider]

The DC-3 had all ready been used to recover Glacier Girl, she was dug up in 92, Freedom Flight was in 95.

And, she is still owned and operated by Don Brooks, based in Douglas, GA.

[k5083]

The summer of 1995 was my first time living in New York City, so it was also my first time visiting the USS Intrepid. In some ways, the Intrepid in 1995 was a cooler museum than it is now. There were no structures messing up the flight deck, so it still looked like an aircraft carrier. And it had a number of planes that have since been deemed too esoteric and moved off site in favor of the crowd pleasing Enterprise space shuttle and other stuff.

One cool thing about the Intrepid in 1995 was that its bow was "guarded" by a matched pair of F-11 Tigers, in Intrepid unit markings, angled over the city. One, 141783, has since been exiled to Ohio, still in its Inteprid markings. The other, 141884, is still on the ship, but now painted in Blue Angels markings (which, admittedly, are accurate to this airframe). Anyway, here they are in 1995.





August

[Matt Gunsch]

Since we talked about Freedom Flight, I am going to ask a favor of WiX group. At the end of Freedom Flight, which was McGuire AFB, I bought something for the T-6, it was a comical duck, wearing a leather flight helmet, white scarf, was about 18 in tall, long legs and huge feet. I would wrap the legs around the truss structure between the front and rear cockpits, with his head looking out from the fixed section of canopy. When Carl went down, the duck was in the plane. I would love to find another.

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[Matt Gunsch]

A Freedom flight Story, the leg from Dayton to Andrews had weather that at times was Delta Sierra, we were climbing to stay out of the clouds. We heard another Flight on the radio say they were in the clear, so we turned in their direction and continued to climb, we finally topped the clouds at 14,500 and in the distance I spotted the other flight and as they got closer I saw their gear was down, WE got suckered up there by a flight of BTs, I have no idea how long it took them to get that high with a 985 and a tiny 10:1 blower, as we had a 12:1 on Carl's plane and we were about maxed out.

[k5083]

Some more pics from 1995 on the Intrepid. I'll call this the "F3" post.

The F3H Demon recently got a thorough restoration and repaint. Here is how it looked in 1995.



The F3D Skyknight is one of the planes booted off the flight deck to the Empire State museum in Glenville, NY (no, I don't know where that is either) to make room for the Enterprise. Note that it was sitting under the wing of P2V Neptune 131542, another plane that has been jettisoned - in this case to the museum at Roosevelt Field on Long Island.



August