Historic Nasa Aircraft/Where are they now?

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:52 pm

interesting www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/His ... index.html

Mark Nankivil · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:22 pm

Interesting - thanks! Mark

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:28 pm

They're missing the X-14B!
It's located at the Ropkey Armor Museum in Crawfordsville, IN.
Very unique vehicle and one of the longest running and safest programs run by NASA!
Jerry

jamesintucson · **Joined:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 1:42 am **Posts:** 546

There is an error on that page. The ex-NASA B-52 at Pima is a NB-52A not a B.
The rest of Pima's NASA collection:

WB-57
Gulfstream G-1
Gulfstream G-2
Super Guppy
KC-135A Vomit Comet
SR-71A
C-9 (Still in Navy markings but belongs to NASA)

James

Dudley Henriques · **Posted:** Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:44 am

Pat Carry wrote:

interesting www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/His ... index.html

I flew one of those birds; one of the blue stripe T38's. The tail number was 38200. Assigned to me at Navy TPS. If you ever get a handle on what happened to it let me know. It was a great airplane!
Dudley Henriques

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:39 pm

Jerry O'Neill wrote:

They're missing the X-14B!
It's located at the Ropkey Armor Museum in Crawfordsville, IN.
Very unique vehicle and one of the longest running and safest programs run by NASA!
Jerry

I was just going to post this!!!! Very neat vehicle and a very neat story. I have visited the Ropkey Museum, ( being a MV collector) we have a mutual acquaintence and I went there and dropped his name. Fred was not there but his son Rick was so he gave us the tour. I got to see it and about fell over and he asked me if I knew what it was. Its in storage and it has been offered back to them. Rick told us that his dad called them and they said Bull S*&% you dont have it. He assured them that he did and they told him to open a panel and read what it says. He told them over the phone and the very next day, members of either NASA or the USAF were there at his house to look at it. Now fred also having a museum was more interested in trades. Rick told me that the only thing they offered was a gutted out KingAir. I wish I had my camera that day as fred has one of the largest collection of Armor outside the US Military.

Not to mention, his son is into airplanes and at that time, he had a couple of Mohawk airframes a T-34 and a AN-2 and he was working on a very nice UH-1.

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Tue Dec 23, 2008 8:48 pm

N3Njeff wrote:

Jerry O'Neill wrote:

They're missing the X-14B!
It's located at the Ropkey Armor Museum in Crawfordsville, IN.
Very unique vehicle and one of the longest running and safest programs run by NASA!
Jerry

I was just going to post this!!!! Very neat vehicle and a very neat story. I have visited the Ropkey Museum, ( being a MV collector) we have a mutual acquaintence and I went there and dropped his name. Fred was not there but his son Rick was so he gave us the tour. I got to see it and about fell over and he asked me if I knew what it was. Its in storage and it has been offered back to them. Rick told us that his dad called them and they said Bull S*&% you dont have it. He assured them that he did and they told him to open a panel and read what it says. He told them over the phone and the very next day, members of either NASA or the USAF were there at his house to look at it. Now fred also having a museum was more interested in trades. Rick told me that the only thing they offered was a gutted out KingAir. I wish I had my camera that day as fred has one of the largest collection of Armor outside the US Military.

Not to mention, his son is into airplanes and at that time, he had a couple of Mohawk airframes a T-34 and a AN-2 and he was working on a very nice UH-1.

Well it looks like he found a home for it!!!!! Its now at Ft. Rucker Air Museum........................I wonder what he got for it????

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