C-47 in the Texas Hill Country
Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:42 pm
One of the guys at our airport asked me about a C-47 he saw flying around the Hill Country a few days ago. He said it was OD and had Invasion Stripes (what else) so it wasn't a freight dog. As we are still about three months out on getting ours flying, I told him I had no idea whose it might have been. Was Cavanaughs plane this far South lately? Doug?
Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:26 pm
Hey - I've looked all over the airport and can't find "ours" -- where is it?
Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:02 pm
Being new to the airport you don't know about the underground bunkers and other hiding places. What do you think I've been building all those big hangars for. Soon there will be all kinds of warbirds around 5c1.
Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:10 pm
Cavanaugh's was stuffed firmly next to the Corsair and TBM at the museum yesterday (and presumably today as well). They brought it up from the Collins hangars after the B-24 left on Thursday.
Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:29 pm
Obergrafeter wrote:Being new to the airport you don't know about the underground bunkers and other hiding places. What do you think I've been building all those big hangars for. Soon there will be all kinds of warbirds around 5c1.
Guess Bob is selling quarter of as usual.....
Lynn
Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:52 pm
Obergrafeter wrote:Being new to the airport you don't know about the underground bunkers and other hiding places. What do you think I've been building all those big hangars for. Soon there will be all kinds of warbirds around 5c1.
I wonder if my friend who's been there a relatively long time knows about those either...
It'd be seriously cool if more warbirds started showing up around town.
Ryan
Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:01 am
Ober,
Probably was the the Cavanaugh C47, since she was "down south" last week on a "family outing".
Julian
Probably was the the Cavanaugh C47, since she was "down south" last week on a "family outing".
Julian
Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:04 am
Kinda what I figured, maybe soon we will have another one in the air.
Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:08 pm
At the Summer Staff Conference someone mentioned having a "new" C-47 flying in Central Texas. I caught the end of it, but it was something in the area of "our new C-47 flew a couple of days ago", but again, I only caught the end of it.
Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:28 pm
Not yet, but getting there.
Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:17 pm
Saw it last weekend heading east down the VFR corridor in Houston.
Interestingly, the previous weekend I saw a turboprop-conversion DC-3 heading east down the corridor.
Interestingly, the previous weekend I saw a turboprop-conversion DC-3 heading east down the corridor.