Photos from Chino (including the boneyard!) from 1983

[helinut]

So does anyone know if the hudson[pbo] nose section still exist and if so where, and does the storage yard there , have anything left.

[Chris Brame]

Yes, 1983 - I was all of 23 at the time. I'd been reading about Chino in Air Classics since I was 15 in Illinois - sad thing was I spent a lot of time at the Victory Air Museum but only took a few photos, some of which I'm still looking for (like the Lone Star Museum's AT-11). Anyway, here's one more:


Tail of the late, lamented O-47B

When I can send more to Photobucket I'll post a couple shots of TBF-1 BuNo 05954 after they pulled it out of Lake Michigan.

[bdk]

The next photo down the Piaska is now with the USAFM system

Speaking of Paiseckis, the red and white one in the Planes of Fame photos (former "Megaforce" movie bird) has been on the airshow circuit for years around southern California- first polished, now painted. It is now based out of Ramona, CA as I recall.

[systemofadown1162]

skymstr02 wrote

Man, I've got skid marks in my underwear older than that!

My sincere condolences

Raven wrote

No, you are just immature...

I see how it is.

[Eric Friedebach]

1983?!?!
Holy crap you guys are old!!!

I hear some of the dudes in here are pushing 40!

[Steve T]

"Pushing" 40?

This past June I knocked it completely down...

S.

[Jerry O'Neill]

I just found this old thread while surfing the web. That tan and green camo fuselage is the BT-13 mockup of a P-40 for the TV pilot film of Baa Baa Black Sheep". It never made it into the final cut.
I wonder where it is now?
Jerry

[JimH]

Chino 1985...

this 47 is no No Guts No Glory





23 Skidoo before she was restored






a very charred Dago Red


Steve Hinton and John Sandberg

[Adam Kline]

These are the photos I like. Almost lost, but now found and posted for people who might appreciate them. Thank you.

[bdk]

I just found this old thread while surfing the web. That tan and green camo fuselage is the BT-13 mockup of a P-40 for the TV pilot film of Baa Baa Black Sheep". It never made it into the final cut.
I wonder where it is now?
Jerry

Are you sure that isn't a real P-40 fuselage?

[Chris Brame]

Pretty sure that's a real, later-model (note the fuselage extension aft of where the horizontal is mounted) P-40. Could be a P-40N dressed up as a P-40E for a TV shoot but it isn't the mockup from BBBS.

[hang the expense]

The fuse that looks like a 40 is just that. It still exists but just where I cant say.Its one of the PNG airframes but there is no telling its number without some disassembly of some riveted areas. Looks to be an N-1 though.The corsair is in the "new" hangar close to the runway.We used to shoot the birds that would land on the skylights from the inside.Shame about the B-24s being cut up.That was just dumb as hell.

[JimH]

more

P-38 that is Ruff Stuff



Aerosport


Happy Jacks Go Buggy...before

[hang the expense]

Ok lets see if I can Id some of the stuff in MARC compound,

As Tulio has point out Nicar. A-20 which is under restoration in Pima
The first photo is the other A-20 that MARC recovered from PNG next to it is one of the B-26 Fusg.

I think you guys have them twisted round. MARC's PNG A-20G 43-21627 is at Pima. Pima fuselage is full of holes because it was shot up/crash landed and ground crews cut out pieces to patch other planes. http://www.warbirdregistry.org/a20regis ... 21627.html

MARC's Nicaraguan A-20H 44-0020 fuselage is on its landing gear and is displayed at the National Warplane Museum at Geneseo, NY. They describe the story of its recovery pretty good on their website. http://www.1941hag.org/a_20.html
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/a20regis ... 40020.html

Right on right on.The serial is wrong though its 4020 so said the radio call on the instrument panel wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back in the day.

[John Kerr]

The corsair is N3466G, 92132 still wearing Baa Baa Blacksheep markings.