CAF Air Show Galveston May 1972
Fri Mar 23, 2007 5:51 pm
General Motors FM-2 Wildcat BuNo 55585 NX681S
Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat BuNo 70222 N1078Z
Goodyear FG-1D Corsair BuNo 92468 N9964Z
Lockheed P-38L Lighting 44-27053 N345 later N577JB
Bell P-63A Kingcobra 42-68941 N191H
De Havilland TT Mk 35 Mosquito RAF RS709 N9797
Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat BuNo 70222 N1078Z
Goodyear FG-1D Corsair BuNo 92468 N9964Z
Lockheed P-38L Lighting 44-27053 N345 later N577JB
Bell P-63A Kingcobra 42-68941 N191H
De Havilland TT Mk 35 Mosquito RAF RS709 N9797
Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:42 pm
Does the CAF still have a Mosquito?
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Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:55 pm
Does the CAF still have a Mosquito?
AF Museum at Wright-Patterson
Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:08 pm
Really. I wondered where we got that from.
Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:29 pm
Strathlahan collection for the USAF museum Mossie, no?
Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:37 pm
I am not sure where it came from. I don't think it says so on the sign.
Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:59 pm
RS709 went back to WOGB (Doug Arnold) and then to USAFM, Strathallan Mossi went to Kermit Weeks...CAFs other Mossi RG300 was broken up and destroyed..apparantly some parts are left ...
Last edited by D Fisher on Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:24 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:01 pm
That is sad. Poor poor Mossie.
Cheers,
David
Cheers,
David
Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:32 am
D Fisher wrote:CAFs other Mossi RG300 was broken up and destroyed..apparantly some parts are left ...
There are parts left, but not at the CAF. They were just sold to a private collector last summer.
Gary
Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:34 am
What went wrongwith it. Why did it end up scrap?
Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:38 am
That's a good question! I must have started with deterioration of the wood structure, but that doesn't mean the plane needs to be destroyed and parted out. It could have still been a static display.
SIGH....
David
SIGH....
David
Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:23 am
mustangdriver wrote: Why did it end up scrap?
I've asked that same question a hundred times and nobody seems to have the answer.
Gary
Mossie
Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:24 pm
The answer is already on the boards...... from Doug Jeanes, Dec '05
"Just to add on the Mosquito. It was a pile of wood scrapes that I believe came from one that sat at San Antonio airport for years before ending up in harlingen. I've only been around 26 years in the CAF, but I remember the Mosquito as just a few pieces. I also saw it in SA years before. The CG4A's- some belonged to the silent wings museum and were loaned to the CAF. They took them back when they had the room at the new Lubbock location. The R4B had a group out of El Paso who wanted to rebuild it. One of the main problems was the transmission which could not be located. The one with it was not the proper one, I believe."
The whole thread is here...... Alan
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=5758&
"Just to add on the Mosquito. It was a pile of wood scrapes that I believe came from one that sat at San Antonio airport for years before ending up in harlingen. I've only been around 26 years in the CAF, but I remember the Mosquito as just a few pieces. I also saw it in SA years before. The CG4A's- some belonged to the silent wings museum and were loaned to the CAF. They took them back when they had the room at the new Lubbock location. The R4B had a group out of El Paso who wanted to rebuild it. One of the main problems was the transmission which could not be located. The one with it was not the proper one, I believe."
The whole thread is here...... Alan
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=5758&
Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:56 pm
I remember looking at that Mossie at San Antonio International in the mid 60s' and falling through the wing back to the ground. I was a lot younger and a lot lighter back then so I would say rot was pretty well set in. ( Is there a statue of limitations on that kind of thing?) Anyway there could not have been much left by the time it got to Harligen. Anybody have pics of those relics, C-119s',C-47s, etc. that were just east of the aiport entrance where Millionaire is tody?