T-28 in Pearland

[NathanT24]

Well I finally went T-28 hunting and I found it, she is in BADDDDDDDDDD shape but would be a good project to do to get her flying again. Here are the pics I took.

[N3Njeff]

worthy project!

[Fouga23]

auwch good luck!

[Tinker51]

Interesting that it is a B model but has the C model nose tire and also the rare correct C model right wing tip.
Not pictured but maybe around somewhere, the QEC. Those are getting to be un-obtainium.
Can't imagine many parts from the engine are going to be usable but the airframe looks good and pretty complete with lots of the hard to find/expensive parts.

[Tulio]

There used to be a "C" model there in the past. It was offered to me, back in 2000, for $35,000.

It later appeared advertised for sale in Barnstormers, with the price up to $65,000.

IIRC, the C belonged to a physician in CA.

I wonder if the Charlie was sold, or if it is stored in Arcola?

Saludos,


Tulio

[RickH]

Tulio,(sorry) there's nothing left at Arcola. The hangar was sold long ago. All of the T-28 were behind Ernesto's house. The remaining aircraft may be the one that he had in the hangar for all of those years. The aircraft exhibit the different pieces because they were junkyard dogs. A lot of mixing and matching when they were put together.

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[Lynn Allen]

I can still remember sitting in a duck blind just south of Navy Corpus, watching the T-28's flying around. It was a blue bird day and they were the only thing flying. Isn't VT-27 the Navy Corpus training wing??

Lynn

[Tulio]

Ernesto, [did you mean Tulio??] there's nothing left at Arcola. The hangar was sold long ago. All of the T-28 were behind Ernesto's house. The remaining aircraft may be the one that he had in the hangar for all of those years. The aircraft exhibit the different pieces because they were junkyard dogs. A lot of mixing and matching when they were put together.

That T-28 was outside, same location, when I first saw the T-28s in April 2000.

Inside the hangar, Ernesto restored T-28s; I was there several times and saw at least two, possibly three different T-28s under restoration, two of them in the red and white colors, and one in overall gray and USAF markings, which was later moved to the hangar in Arcola.

There was also a BT-13 there, that was located by yours truly in Iowa, purchased by Ernesto and his business associate and then shipped by container to Argentina, where it is now part of the Naval Aviation Museum. I helped to move parts of this BT to Arcola, in my old Chevy Blazer.

If the hangar in Arcola was sold, do you know what happened to the Chipmunks and the Aermacchis? I know that Ernesto sold the house and hangar, and moved to another location in Pearland.

Saludos,


Tulio

[jotomp]

Hi,
I learned to fly at Pearland in 1967. Never will forget the short runways. But glad I did learn to fly there, wasn't scared to go into short fields then.
Jim

[skymstr02]

Isn't VT-27 the Navy Corpus training wing??

Lynn

At NAS CC, VT-27 and VT-28 are T-34C training squadrons, VT-31 is a T-44A and C multi engine training squadron, and lastly VT-35 trains using TC-12's.

[SPANNERmkV]

Congratulations...
Everybody needs a hobby!

Yesterday I got to sit in the backseat of a T28 while its owner was doing an engine run-up and mag check in preparation for an annual.
I got to fly it earlier this year (and log it, because the owner is a CFI wooohooo!)
That is a MANLY airplane!

Hope to see you in the air soon at Wings Over Houston and LSFM.

PS Keep the drum... You will need it to either:
A. Stand on to do any work on the plane.
B. Use it for your old oil after doing oil changes... Don't bother getting oil in quart bottles, go for gallon jugs as an intermediate from your 55 gal. drum Main Supply.

[Eric Friedebach]

That is a MANLY airplane!

A manly plane for manly men.

And the chicks dig 'em, too...

[mustangdriver]

Tulio,(sorry) there's nothing left at Arcola. The hangar was sold long ago. All of the T-28 were behind Ernesto's house. The remaining aircraft may be the one that he had in the hangar for all of those years. The aircraft exhibit the different pieces because they were junkyard dogs. A lot of mixing and matching when they were put together.

Ernesto, I wonder if he is the same guy I worked on the Colling's B-25 with when it was still Hoosier honey?

[Tulio]

[quote ]

Ernesto, I wonder if he is the same guy I worked on the Colling's B-25 with when it was still Hoosier honey?[/quote]

If that B-25 was at one time based in Arcola, yes. I recall Ernesto from some time around early 90s, working on a tan-color B-25 there.

That was at the time when there was a Spanish "Saeta" jet and a twin Lockheed Patrol plane (a PV-2?).

Saludos,


Tulio

[RickH]

Ernesto Morales was part of the crew who went to Beaver Falls to get Hoosier Honey ready to ferry to Houston. He didn't work on it while it was Arcola. An all volunteer crew worked on it in front of Sandy Salebo's hangar until it was ferried to Houston Hobby.