A few shots from Fantasy of Flight

[rwdfresno]

Buffie,

Thanks for the reply, looks to be another aircraft as this was close to a year ago I believe and the aircraft is still down in Louisiana. That aircraft, while missing the control surfaces looks like a pretty nice project aircraft as it still has bomb bay doors, turret hole, nose etc look pretty original.

[dbrown]

Not sure - but perhaps someone can trace the registration?

BUFFIE
www.buffiesbest.com

[dbrown]

Ryan - yes it was cool to see this one with the bomb bays in tact.

On a side note - I was hoping to see the Zero - they used to display it in the main building but it has moved out. Does anyone know where it might be? IIRC it was an A6M5.

Thanks!

BUFFIE

[bdk]

Not sure - but perhaps someone can trace the registration?

WEEKS AIR MUSEUM INC

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=96UC

[JDK]

I was told (IIRC) when I visited in January that the previous owner had flown the Cat (PBY) in and donated it to Weeks' collection.

He does fly the B-26 every once in a great while.

A very great while. Does anyone know when the last time the a/c was actually flown? I'm betting years rather than months.

[mustangdriver]

I think that you might be right. I was at Oshkosh when he first got it, and they flew it there. It is a very early B-26.

[airnutz]

He does fly the B-26 every once in a great while.

A very great while. Does anyone know when the last time the a/c was actually flown? I'm betting years rather than months.

I seem to remember someone here saying a few years back, that was '98 or '99 since she last flew.
It's somewhere here in the archives...

[Steve Nelson]

I was lucky enough to see the Marauder fly in 1998 when Kirmit made a surprise visit to Warbirds Over Kalamazoo. He dropped in for the afternoon on his way from the Selfridge Air Show to Oshkosh. I heard that once there an engine started making metal. He eventually got her back to Florida, but I haven't heard of her flying since. Too bad..she's probably the only Marauder that will ever be airworthy.

SN

[Obergrafeter]

Kermit did fly the B-26 over to Sun n Fun in 1999, after the gathering of Mustangs. Maybe not him flying, but the plane was there.

[JDK]

So, nothing after '99? Most of a decade.

Pity. But if my toybox was that packed, I'd find it difficult to play with them all.