Annapolis NAS 1950's

Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:12 pm

Anyone out there have pics of the N3N's that flew out of Annapolis in the 50's.......

Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:09 pm

I don't have a photo, but there is still one at the Academy...hanging above the ice rink, there is a resturant nearby where you can gaze upon it while you eat. Recommended dining for any N3N fan.

Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:18 am

That N3N is no longer hanging above the ice rink. That airplane was on loan, was taken down and cleaned up and re hung at the Paul Gerber museum in MD.

Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:31 pm

N3Njeff wrote:That N3N is no longer hanging above the ice rink. That airplane was on loan, was taken down and cleaned up and re hung at the Paul Gerber museum in MD.

Pity, I thought it gave the campus a bit of fun....

BTW, anyone have an N3N on its float?
It would be a neat thing to take to the "seaplane" events at Oskosh.

Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:10 pm

Yanks has one on floats.

Last September I talked with Don Larson, a local N3N owner who is kind enough to share his aircraft with us at shows in the area. His plans at the time were to put it on the original wheels for this summer, and if all goes well to have it on floats in time for the summer of 2006.

Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:15 am

Last I knew, there were 2 possibly 3 on floats. One is up in canada

Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:17 am

When I was at Fantasy of Flight 2 yrs ago. I had talked to Kermit about his N (from what I am told, is now out of storage and waiting restoration) that it will be put on floats.

Sat Apr 09, 2005 6:54 pm

Thats a new one to me..........Here in the new england area, there is us and one being restored in NH.......the next closest that I know of is in Islip NY

Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:05 am

dj51d wrote:Yanks has one on floats.

Here are two pictures of the N3N on floats at Yanks...

http://community.webshots.com/photo/268 ... 9408wtKDZT
http://community.webshots.com/photo/268 ... 9814dPNfSJ

...and one of the N3N at Yanks without the skins...

http://community.webshots.com/photo/268 ... 0518lXybTt

...and there was a third, but I couln't get a picture of that.

Also I have been told that these components...

http://community.webshots.com/photo/268 ... 7158mEdvbG
http://community.webshots.com/photo/268 ... 9895tkUODp

...are N3N parts.

Regards,

Mike

Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:37 am

Mike
I have a picture of the 3rd N3N at yanks. Anybody have the skinny on that airframe?

what about the dozens of airframes in the fenced are near the parkiing lot? With the nastie R-2800s full of sand?

Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:05 am

TimApNy wrote:what about the dozens of airframes in the fenced are near the parking lot?

Yanks bought a stash of duster airframes years ago. They are the basis for the N3N collection.

Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:51 am

Col. Rohr wrote:Brandon,

Do you know the guy in San Diego that had some N3N he got them from Mexico ex-dusters I remember sometime around 91( Bill Spears was still alive) I think.

he was next to the CAF Air Group One Hanger.if my grey matter doesn't fall me he had four or five of them.

Nope, sorry!

Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:10 am

Bill Thompson here in BC owns a very nice N3N on floats. There's a story on the Canadian Museum of Flight website at
http://www.canadianflight.org/history/billt01.htm

Very nice guy, you can probably contact him through the museum or PM me and I'll get you his contact info.

Brian....