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Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:45 pm
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.
Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:17 pm
Not sure - but perhaps someone can trace the registration?
BUFFIE
www.buffiesbest.com
Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:21 pm
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
Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:34 am
dbrown wrote:Not sure - but perhaps someone can trace the registration?
WEEKS AIR MUSEUM INC
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=96UC
Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:52 am
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.
mustangdriver wrote:He does fly the B-26 every once in a great while.
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very great while. Does anyone know when the last time the a/c was
actually flown? I'm betting years rather than months.
Mon Jun 25, 2007 9:28 am
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.
Tue Jun 26, 2007 1:10 am
JDK wrote:mustangdriver wrote: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...
Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:58 am
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
Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:00 am
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.
Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:19 am
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.
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