Midland KC-97...Is this your's Gary?
Fri May 30, 2008 12:04 am
Found these pictures (in my inherited stuff) of a KC-97 at Midland @ 1989.
Gary is this the airplane you have part of in the back yard "swimmin" hole? Reg# N1175K ...Or is this the Berlin Airlift Foundation machine?
Gary is this the airplane you have part of in the back yard "swimmin" hole? Reg# N1175K ...Or is this the Berlin Airlift Foundation machine?
Fri May 30, 2008 12:28 am
I don't believe that one is mine. The one I have came out of Florida (already cut in pieces) and had dark blue paint on the front of the cowlings.
Gary
Gary
Fri May 30, 2008 12:36 am
Very cool! Wish I could remember when Pop was AC on these. I don't have record whether it was at Chennault in LA or Forbes in Topeka prior to B-47's. Could have even been in FL prior to both but for sure a cool AC. Thanks! I could handle one now either full of AVgas or jet fuel. 
Fri May 30, 2008 7:03 am
That is the Berlin Airlift's bird, now registered as N117GA.
Fri May 30, 2008 7:08 am
I bid on that C-97 at the auction in 1989. It was in amazing condition, with if I remember one bad engine, but otherwise ready to fly out. Good thing my bid wasn't accepted, what in the he ll would I do with it.
Fri May 30, 2008 7:24 am
Obergrafeter wrote:I bid on that C-97 at the auction in 1989. It was in amazing condition, with if I remember one bad engine, but otherwise ready to fly out. Good thing my bid wasn't accepted, what in the he ll would I do with it.
Park it next to the T-28's and you would have been Nancy's best ever friend...
Is that the one that was used as a flying hospital in Mexico and Central America and then a fish hauler? If so, it was based in Hondo, Texas in its hospital days....
Lynn
Fri May 30, 2008 7:33 am
Obergrafeter wrote:I bid on that C-97 at the auction in 1989. It was in amazing condition, with if I remember one bad engine, but otherwise ready to fly out. Good thing my bid wasn't accepted, what in the he ll would I do with it.
Well, DUH... you could've turned her into "Bride of Cosmic Muffin".
Fri May 30, 2008 9:26 am
Dan K wrote:Obergrafeter wrote:I bid on that C-97 at the auction in 1989. It was in amazing condition, with if I remember one bad engine, but otherwise ready to fly out. Good thing my bid wasn't accepted, what in the he ll would I do with it.
Well, DUH... you could've turned her into "Bride of Cosmic Muffin".
Fri May 30, 2008 3:32 pm
Same one that leaked oil all over Hondo then San Marcos before going to Berlin Airlift. Should have collected the oil........lets see at $135 a barrel we would be in the money.