What's your best piece off a warbird

[Waltz41]

That's some really neat stuff some of you guys got! So my question is where did you get it? Especially the pieces of planes crashed or shot down. Just curious....stuff given to you, find it, or buy it?
I think it's pretty cool to have some warbird memorabilia like that.

brian

[Matt Gunsch]

Lets see, I have a bunch of T-6 parts, several generator cores, a complete set of test equipment for F-8 crusaders, F-86 gunsite, waist gun reflector sight, B-25 tail turret sight, some parts from a B-24D that crashed outside of Tucson, some of the wreckage from my friends T-6,

[Don Martin]

I have an access panel and a torque tube from a B-52 and a fire t-handle and a main landing gear leveling rod from a C-141. Some place I also have a metal "Lockheed C-5" control yoke decal, and a couple of metal cockpit cup holders. And my prize piece is the"M.A.C. Flight One" sign out of C-141B 67-0166, CinCMAC's personal aircraft.

[N3Njeff]

Well, I got a few things.

1. New Old Stock, P-51D mag switch with NAA yellow tag still attached.
2. Piece of cowling, bomb door and ball turret support ring from a B-24J.
3. Piece of tail strut and remainder of elevator from our N3N when dad left it unchocked while visiting a friends airstrip and rolled backwards down the hill into a bird feeder.
4. Pieces of the case and stud that held our #5 cylinder to the engine.
5. A-6 intruder threat indicator aunniciator board.
6. OH-6A skid still in the crate from the Hughes factory dated 1969.
7. Left pilots door to a UH-1.
8. Tail rotor blade to a UH-1.
9. GOODYEAR hubcap for a PBY-5A main wheel.
10. TBM rear turret escape hatch.
11. RCA radio's taken from a Aeronca L-3 Defender.

[JägerMarty]

I had a tailfin from a Brewster Bufalo in my backyard for a while. It's from a wreck that crashed in NE Victoria. Ended up giving it away to a better home (I hope) and pointing the owner in the direction of more bits.

Now I have a few Luftwaffe instruments and some 13mm, 20mm on belt and mk108 30mm cannon ammo in my model cabinet

[Owen Miller]

The kamikaze fragments were given to me by Enterprise vets who picked
them up in 1945. They also gave me a section of the spruce flight deck
and a bomb fragment from the hit at Eastern Solomons in 1942.

Blue skies,
Owen

[marine air]

A few things include;

1) A Kinner R-55-100A engine for a PT-22, disassembled and in cosmoline.
2) Me-108 Taifun spinner, and cowling.
3) cylinder from a Continental R-670 made into a lamp.
4) 1950 Willy's CJV-35 Beachmasters jeep. rarest military model, used in amphibious assaults to direct naval bombardments, LVT's and air strafing attacks in Korea. Matching serial numbers.
5) factory complete USMC Willy's M-38A1 (1953) jeep 8,000 miles since new. Documented serial numbers.
6) MUTT M-151A2 Jeep (1974) uncut, unmolested from military service

These are for sale if anyone interested, contact me , Marine Air

[wendovertom]

Most everything I have found now is in the Wendover Museum but the items I've recovered and now in the museum -

Several pieces of engine, cockpit and various pieces parts from a P-47D that crashed in 1945 near Wendover.

A few pieces of an A-12 that crashed near Wendover

and lastly, while not from an airplane but created by a bomb dropped from an airplane, a few small pieces of Trinite (Glass made by the bomb test at Trinity Site)

Tom P.

[Steve T]

Neat thread!

I've very little of this sort of thing (wouldn't have anywhere to put it if I did)...but I do have:

* Martin Baker "bang seat" once occupied by the copilot of the HP Victor K2 that crashlanded at Mt.Hope in June 1986; exchanged a batch of books to CWH's library for it (they had been given the two seats plus the shell of the nose for display, but in those days did not collect "modern" stuff--the shell of the nose ended up at Walt Soplata's after I found out it might go for scrap and wrote Walt about it)

* S&S Aircraft propeller for a Jacobs L6MB engine on an Avro Anson II; saw this in the garage across the street from my parents' place the evening before the neighbours' garage sale, acquired it early the next morning before the sale started (the fellow had bought it to make into a clock, but, bless him, never got round to doing so and it remains completely original)

* Westinghouse Mk.IX training bombsight, probably for a Bolingbroke; given to me by a chap who had two of them, the one he gave me and the one he kept, which was in new condition in its (equally pristine) crate

* My only actual airframe component...a trim tab from a T-33AN Silver Star, acquired from a local book dealer. Also have an antenna or two, a couple compressor vanes from (I think) an Orenda, a small flake of paint from a Cornell hulk and a dataplate from an Anson...think that's about it.

S.

[tom d. friedman]

8 years ago i had 3 mark 88 practice bombs still in girdered crates. empty they weighed around 200 pounds. filled with sand or water they simulated 1000 pounds. they were deadly beautiful, 10 feet long, 44 inches diameter. the wife finally had enough of them taking up room in the garage & told me to dump them. i sold them to a sod farmer in alabama who had the means to transport them. they were cool!!!

[PJ]

I have a piston from a P-38 that came from the Allison Engine Plant in Indianapolis where my Grandfather helped machine them during the war. Also a screw driver that he machined out of another piece of P-38 engine.
PJ

[peter]

Lets see the best would have to be the Lancaster wing tank panel with Nose art By Clarence Simonsen on it ,A skin panel from Halifax NA337 with nose art, a halifax bomber pilots panel and some instruments remember I built one already for the museum this is my spare one. I have some tiny bits from a short stirling that was shot down in ww2. Anyone have a piece of stirling skin that would look nice between my halifax and lanc panels?

[Tom Crawford]

I don't have anything........

[RyanShort1]

I don't have anything........

Tom would you like me to send you some crash site so you can go out and have some fun just tell me what part of Texas your living in.

RER

Any way I could get in on that?

Ryan

[RyanShort1]

See underneath my avatar... Just south of Randolph AFB.

Ryan