Warbird Information Exchange

Here are a few pics taken by a friend in the 60's any ideas where the planes are today?

The B-18 Bolo is at the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ

The Boing S307 could be the one at Smithsonian that Boeing volunteers restored.

bill word

I beleive the F3F crashed in in the early 70s, it was the last flying original F3F.

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The P-63F still flies with the Commemoratve Air Force...or at least did a few years back. And might I add, that IMHO that the warbirds in the 60's that were painted in a "civilian" scheme were very good looking. I think the P-63 looks great, as did a number of Mustangs of that era. Of course I am prejudiced as the first warbird I ever saw fly was in 1967 at the Cleveland air races. It was Bob Hoover's yellow Mustang. That was almost 40 yrs ago and I still remember it as if was yesterday.

The F3F pictured was originally built as the personal aircraft of Leroy Grumman. Notice it is two place. Champlin bought it and then it was crashed. This crash and Jim Fausz' crash in the Spitfire was what pushed Champlin to going the flyable but not flown route for the collection. The F-F rebuild was the spark that helped to create the F3F's that Herb Tischler built. Of course there were also supposed to be some pieces used from the F3F crash sites in Hawaii

I so agree with you. Unfortunately it seems that all warbirds today go back into uniform, but as you say there were some nice civilian paint jobs back in the 60's and into the 70's!

T J

I loved Lefty Gardiners P-38 in the red and white scheme.

Any info on where and when the photo of the Beech AT-10 was taken? Is it the one at Wright-Pat now? Can you scan a close-up of the N-number; it looks like N9049A. Thanks!

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Looks like 3047(maybe 2)and ?

Wildcat looks like Dick Foote's FM-2. It appears to have a small round window on the aft fuselage.
Jerry

I kind of figured that he took a picture of the one that is now at the NASM and here is a picture of that one. i also have a picture of a P-40 that is a mystrey to me. I have a bunch of pictures left to scan.

Great pics.

There's something about civil schemes...

Mmmm. Red P-40. I want one. It's just SOooo classy.

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Raven

F3F looks like it did with Bill Ross. Isn't it with Planes of Fame now

I believe the AT-10 could be N9049H which my July 1, 1964 Civil Aircraft Register lists as a 1943 AT-10 serial 338. At that time it was registered to Mt Pleasant Scottsdale Airport, at RD 2, Mt Pleasant, PA with an inspection date of 0959.

It would appear the red P-40 is Mike Dillon's N1226N that went to the CAF and is still with them. Great four-part article in the late 1960s in Air Progress by Mike on restoring that airplane.