F-86

Sun Apr 17, 2005 7:49 pm

I found this photo in my box of suprises the other day and was wondering if anyone knew were this F-86(H?) ended up? It was here at BIA about 1990/1991 towing targets for the VTANG when the kept an alert detatchment here. I I read it right, on the nose it says "Flight Systems Inc." It's not the best shot as the Security Police were on there way :roll:

and I didn't want to hang around and shoot the breeze with them :wink:

. Also the hangers in the picture were torn down last summer. They were the original base alert hangers from the 1950s.

Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:51 pm

Hello Don,

I believe if you scroll down the page to a post entitled "Some Photos From Tico" you may find the answer.

Glenn

Sun Apr 17, 2005 9:41 pm

http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=86FS

RCAF 23367. To N8549 (date?), re-registered N92402 Sep76, re-registered N86FS Sep77. Noted at Mojave Dec93

http://f-86.tripod.com/fsi.html

http://www.ids.na.baesystems.com/products/flightsystems/aboutus.htm

Sun Apr 17, 2005 10:31 pm

N86FS looked a bit like this yesterday.........

(now registered to Flying Fossils LLC of Hickory, North Carolina)

Sun Apr 17, 2005 11:06 pm

That F-86 along with a few others, an F-100 and some Canadair T-33's, were still being used by Tracor Flight Systems at Mojave Airport, Ca, where F-4 Phantom II's were being converted into drones. I went there each year for a few years in the late 1990's while those planes were still there. Due to security (?), the field is no longer open for tours.........

Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:08 am

Here's N86FS in another livery... in 1981

and a sister ship, N89FS, same year

Martin

Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:10 am

N86FS again

Martin

Mon Apr 18, 2005 5:24 am

shall I go on ?

okay: Mojave September 1973

N405FS (56-3022 ) 1990

N403FS (ex 150586 ) 1979

N419FS

N402FS

N416FS

N306FS

Martin

Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:56 am

Thanks Martin, etc! I'm always amaised and astounded(Shocked and Awed?!) with the amount of information just one little old question and one little old photo can arouse!
Thanks
Don

Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:40 am

ME TOO

Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:51 am

Wow!!

Does anyone know the disposition of the Hun?? I wonder if it is the same one now for sale in New Mexico.

I've tried for a couple of years to get it to come to our air show as a static display.

Tom P.

Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:37 pm

wendovertom wrote:Does anyone know the disposition of the Hun?? I wonder if it is the same one now for sale in New Mexico.

Four ex-FS birds are registrered in Montana, and one FS aircraft is still USAF owned. Yanks also recently acquired a semi-airworthy F-100 from Mojave which is being disassembled and trucked to Chino.

One each are also registered in Reno NV, Lodi CA, Ft. Wayne IN, and El Paso TX. 10 in all.

Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:30 pm

BDK -

Thanks! do you know anything about the Reno plane? That would be a heck of a lot closer to Wendover. Maybe someone here knows the owner/pilot??

Thanks,

Tom P

Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:35 pm

Hey Martin, Mind if I steal some of these images for the registry?

Mon Apr 18, 2005 3:21 pm

I don't mind at all, Scott

Martin

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