Garber Facility

[florida.warbirds]

The Garber facility still exist but what is still stored there? Are tours available?

[Pat Carry]

There are no tours there. I had a list of what was still at Garber but I have no clue where it is now. Its my understanding the collection still at Garber would take 100+ years to restore.

[Pat Carry]

Off the top of my head I know there is a P-39, a P-63, an Avenger, a Mosquito, a Ta-152 and other German stuff. I wish the folks at the NASM would give serious thought to placing many of these on display at Udvar Hazy in "as is" condition.

[Pat Carry]

I found the list. Here are just some of whats still there. Now that I look at this list, there is probably 200 years of restoration! 1. Abrams Explorer 2. Aichi B7A2 "Grace", 3. Antonov AN-2M 4. Applebay Zuni ll 5. Arado AR-196 6. Bachem Ba 349 7. Bell AH-1 Cobra 8. Blohm & Voss Bv 155 9. Bucker Bu 181 10. Cessna O-2A 11. Convair 240 12. Convair XF 24 Sea Dart 13. Culver TD-2C 14. Naval Aircraft Factory TS-2 15. Curtiss-Wright X-100 16. Custer CCW-1 Channel Wing 17. Douglas A-1 Skyraider More to come.

[Pat Carry]

Here are 10 more 1. Douglas B-26 Invader 2. Ercoupe 415-C 3. Fairchild PT-19A 4. Franklin Texaco Eaglet 5. Grumman F9F Cougar 6. Heinkel He-162 7. Herring-Burgess Biplane 8. Hispano Ha-200 9. Il-2M Sturmovik 10. Junkers Ju 388L

[Pat Carry]

The next 10 1. Kawanishi N1K1 "Rex" 2. Kellett XR-8 3. Kugisho P1Y1 "Frances" 4. Lincoln-Standard H.S. 5. Lockheed XC-35 6. McDonnell F-4 Phantom ll 7. McDonnell XHJP-1 Whirlaway 8. McDonnell XV-1 Convertiplane 9. Me 410A 10 Morane-Saulnier MS-500

[Pat Carry]

10 more 1. Nakajima B6N2 "Jill" 2. Nakajima C6N1 "Myrt" 3. Noorduyn YC-64 Norseman 4. North American FJ-1 Fury 5. North American O-47A 6. North American SNJ-4 7. T-38 Talon 8. Northrup XP-56 9. Pitcairn Cierva PCA-1A 10. Platt-LePage XR-1

[Pat Carry]

The final 9 are; 1. Republic RC-3 Seabee 2. Saab J-29F 3. Sikorsky XR-5 4. Vertol VZ-2 5. Verville Sportsman AT 6. Vultee BT-13A 7. Waco 9 8. Waco UIC and finally 9. Yak 18! As you can see there is a lot still at Garber. What the NASM is going to do with all of this, remains to be seen one day. There is no way it will all fit into Udvar Hazy unless their plan is to add onto the building in the future.

[Matt Sharkey]

Looks like job security for the next two generations of restorers.

[Pat Carry]

60 aircraft taking an average of lets say 3 years each to restore = 180 years of restoration. thats a long time. I guess I will be watching as most of us will, from warbird heaven

[Nathan]

Time to start parting out the collection!