Midwest SBD Dauntless?

Dennis Bergstrom · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:26 pm

I've been hearing rumors of a SBD Dauntless that's being restored or was recently completed in the upper Midwest: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, etc. Anybody out there know anything about this?

Dennis

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:15 am

MAPS in Ohio?

Dennis Bergstrom · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:38 pm

No, not the MAPS Dauntless. This one is supposedly relatively recent and being restored to fly. Has a collector traded something with the USN lately to get one of their Lake Michigan SBDs that are in storage at Pensacola? I've heard rumors since last summer.

Then again....maybe it's just that......a rumor.

Dennis

hairy · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:26 pm

Ross Jowett sold the remains of a Dauntless that he recovered from Vanuatu to someone in the midwest a few years ago.

RMAllnutt · **Posted:** Thu Feb 24, 2005 12:41 am

I think that the Ross Jowitt bird is the one which ended up at Pima.

Could this other restoration have been the former USAFM SBD which was restored and put up at Midway airport at the end of last year? It was restored in the midwest if I recall, and is now on display in Illinois, so it technically fits the description.

Richard

Dennis Bergstrom · **Posted:** Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:35 am

Could be Richard, but, according to the rumor, this Dauntless is privately owned. Very interesting puzzle, which may be just a rumor after all.

Dennis

AirJimL2 · **Posted:** Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:51 am

RMAllnutt wrote:

I think that the Ross Jowitt bird is the one which ended up at Pima.

Which I think is now at the USS Hornet Museum as Pima just got the A-24B s/n 42-54654 from MAPS.

Jim

Btw, isn't this the former Pima bird?

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/sbdregistry/sbd-10508.html

Dennis Bergstrom · **Posted:** Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:10 pm

Yep, 10508 is the ex Ross Jowitt Kiwi airframe that went to Pima in 2002 and now is with the USS Hornet Museum

Dennis

RMAllnutt · **Posted:** Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:45 pm

Doh! I should have remembered that the Pima bird went to Hornet. I've been helping Kevin Smith with some of the details for this, as they are co-operating on some of the SBD related restoration work.

Cheers,
Richard

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3331

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I believe the ex-Hornet Museum SBD-4 (BuNo 10508?) has since moved on. Does anyone know where it is now?

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:30 pm

It's in California :shock:

whistlingdeath77 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:46 pm

how many sbds are flying?

TAdan · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:57 pm

I think there are three flyers. C.A.F, PoF, and LSFM.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:58 pm

Erikson's A-24 is flyable but hasen't flown in eons.

kalamazookid · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 10:40 pm

Jack Cook wrote:

Erikson's A-24 is flyable but hasen't flown in eons.

I guess "eons" means 2009:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=170530839172

Wonder if it's flown since then? Don't hear too much about them flying at airshows or anything, makes me wonder if they just fly their aircraft from the museum occasionally.

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