B-23 Dragon on ebay recently

[Brad]

Just for the fun of it, here are a few pictures I took of 39-0031 down in Quito, Ecuador. I took these sometime in the early 1990s.







It might just be me but does ellice_island_kid remind anybody else of HarvardIV / A2C?

[warbird1]

It might just be me but does ellice_island_kid remind anybody else of HarvardIV / A2C?

Oh no, not again! This would make 5 aliases for Chris on this forum.

[Andy in West Oz]

Now that is a seriously pretty aircraft! A little bit of art deco creeping in, IMHO. Gorgeous. Thanks, Brad.

My book collecting tends to focus around memoirs of aircrew who flew in the 'forgotten' theatres and often on forgotten/unsung types. For some reason I find the road less travelled a fascinating place to be hence a continued love affair with things like the B-23, Marauder and Baltimore in RAF and SAAF service etc etc.

I take it there's been no further developments on the Dragon that's for sale?

[hercules130]

Brad - thanks for the shots!

When I bounce out of NCOA in a week or so I will send some photo I took at McChord in 99 or so.

Gary

[Brad]

Brad - thanks for the shots!

When I bounce out of NCOA in a week or so I will send some photo I took at McChord in 99 or so.

Gary

I hated the NCOA. Without a doubt, it was the biggest waste of time in my career.


I took these at McChord in 97 or 98.





I took these back in mid June of this year.










Bob Van Ausdell flew this Dragon into McChord and it was forever grounded with the Air Force Museum.

[tom d. friedman]

1st time i've ever seen a b-23 pic in a military atmosphere!! all the pics i've ever seen are old color faded hangar queens & has beens since the 60's!!

[Stoney]

I wonder where the Bolo I saw in 1970 has gone, it came thru SAN from Mexico to some place in the states.

[Nathan]

Just bumped into this pic entirely by accident while browsing pics from William Vandivert (LIFE photographer); this was in a photo essay called "Panama Cargo Trip", so it's likely that this bird was photographed in the Canal Zone. Serial appears to be 39-048.

I did some digging.

I think the B-23 in question is this one:

48 (c/n 2734) to RFC at McKellar Nov 7, 1944. To Pacific Lumber Co as NC67000 (some sources have Howard Hughes as
being associated with this plane). Reregistered as N67000 in 1954. Crashed prior to Jan 1964.


http://usaircraft.proboards.com/index.c ... thread=847

[Kyleb]

Interesting thing I just noticed about the B-23. The prop arc's appear to be aligned with some of the plexi panels in the nose. Not a good combination in icing conditions!!!

[Canso42]

Brad, got any pix of the McChord PBY-5A project, N4760C ?

[Chris Brame]

Sorry, but the font on those tail codes was driving me crazy...



(and fixing them at that resolution was like playing Tetris! )

[marine air]

What's the deal with those propellor blades? They look really long and slender. Seem to be a lot different from those for a B-25 or TBM. ANyone know?

[Brad]

Brad, got any pix of the McChord PBY-5A project, N4760C ?

Sorry Doug but the only pictures I have are from several years ago...and it's been about the same amount of time since I last saw them! If I dig them up I'll holler at you.

[red two]

Just a quick question? Was the tail turret on the B-23 was it a single mount or a twin like the B-17? Was it a a single 30 caliber or a single 50 caliber, or twins?