seeking organizations to donate to

Nathan · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:41 pm

Hi all,

On us-aircraft.com I have a paypal donation option set up. Each month I plan to pick a warbird restoration or museum to try and raise money for. Last month we raised $50 for the Geneseo B-23 project. I have yet to pick the next one. So if any of you have some suggestions please let me know. Even if its a project your involved with. It does not have to be a museum project. Private project suggestions also welcomed. This is my way, even if small, to get some money towards good causes.

Here it is if interested:
http://usaircraft.proboards.com/index.cgi?

Thanks,
Nathan

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:08 pm

The Grissom B-17 can use all the help it can get!

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11324

I accept donations to my T-6 project. One limitation though, I only accept donations in $10,000 increments. :mrgreen:

I know that every dollar helps out a worthy organization. Keep up the good work!

Cherrybomber13 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:27 pm

I can think of a certain Corsair in Stratford CT... The Sikorsky Memorial Airport Corsair....

tulsaboy · **Posted:** Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:33 pm

We are working on restoring a 1939 American Airlines DC-3 that flew as Flagship Tulsa. Any/all donations appreciated!

kevin

jasonp51d · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:22 am

Nathan,

Great thing that you are doing.

May I put forward two restorations at the Bottisham Airfield Museum Group. We are a small museum set in an old airfield building at Bottisham, UK - former home of the 361st Fighter Group.

We are currently building a P-51 cockpit from scratch and are restoring an original Binghampton built Link Trainer - both projects are certainly in need of additional funds.

So far for the P-51 we have a cockpit panel with 95% of the instruments, gear stick, rudder bar, canopy, VHF radio, and oxygen regulator. However considerable funds will be needed for a throttle quadrant, seat and windshield.

Any help very much appreciated - please contact jasonwebb361@btinternet.com

THANKS!

Jason
Chairman - Bottisham Airfield Museum Group
http://www.361fg.com

whistlingdeath77 · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:06 am

the stratford corsair project would be nice

seabee1526 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:18 pm **Posts:** 459

Yankee Air Museum Hangar Project for the flyables.

K5DH · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:48 am

The Vintage Flying Museum crew is restoring a Link trainer. Your donations of $$$ would be most welcome!

Dan K · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:44 pm

PJ · **Posted:** Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:41 pm

Needless to say. The American Military Heritage Foundation PV-2 Harpoon "Hot Stuff" can always use a donation. As a 501-C3 Non profit group. we put the "non" in "non profit".
Thanks,

PJ
PV-2 Harpoon "Hot Stuff"
www.amhf.org

whistlingdeath77 · **Posted:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:38 am

Dan K wrote:

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what is this?

Dan Jones · **Posted:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:48 am

That is a Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf, and likely the only one any of us will ever see.

Dan - what all have you got?

Dan K · **Posted:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:09 pm

Dan Jones wrote:

That is a Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf, and likely the only one any of us will ever see.

Dan - what all have you got?

I guess I should've typed more $$$$$$. :wink:

No major bits like fuselage, center section, or wings. Of the handful used by VT-154/155 and as hacks, none were conveniently landed in a freshwater lake or dismal swamp. Jay Wisler found a handful of windscreens in an Illinois warehouse. A couple of canopy sections have surfaced in Pennsylvania, as resourceful factory workers scavenged them for cold frames in their gardens. Also many internal bits...pumps and valves...war surplus often defies logic. Radar, communication, and weapons systems identical in most ways to TBM.

Remember when Al Stix made his first request on WIX for turret info? On a longshot, I sent him a few pics and parts lists, just knowing that he wouldn't find anything belonging to the TBY...

I was wrong...in a big way. :rolleyes:

The plan is to keep scrounging bits and arrange them in some sort of meaningful static assembly. Frankenstein's monster would be a decent metaphor.

Dan Jones · **Posted:** Sun Feb 20, 2011 1:05 pm

That's cool! You never know how and where stuff is going to turn up. I diverted for weather a couple of years ago and ended up spending the night in a little town in Saskatchewan. The guy that ran the local maintenance operation at the airport was an old airplane nut and into Cornells and I just happened to have recently come into a complete set of original maintenance manuals for one. The weird part was that he had just recently recovered a bunch of BT-13 parts from a nearby farm and had no idea what he was going to do with them. How a BT-13 ended up in Canada and got scrapped on a farm in Saskatchewan we have no idea, but we traded straight across!

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