CAF's P-47

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2015 10:12 am

The one that caught fire some years back, is there any work being done to it??

Taylor Stevenson · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2015 1:31 pm

Not within the past few years.

Triplane102 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:55 pm **Posts:** 491

Last I heard, it was put back together with another (?) wing , and was at The Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison Tx, Who, by the way are having their Corsair fly in this weekend !

Lon Moer · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2015 4:14 pm

TBM Tony wrote:

Last I heard, it was put back together with another (?) wing , and was at The Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison Tx, Who, by the way are having their Corsair fly in this weekend !

Cavanaugh Flight Museum P-47N

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This aircraft is owned by the Commemorative Air Force and is based at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum.

Triplane102 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:55 pm **Posts:** 491

Thanks Lon, when I went to the CFM website, I got sidetracked by the Corsair & Airshow News !

Taylor Stevenson · **Posted:** Tue May 12, 2015 10:28 pm

Wings are still off. No change.

marine air · **Posted:** Wed May 13, 2015 9:07 am

It seems like the progress stopped when they got involved in the B-29 engine project.

george · **Joined:** Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:20 pm **Posts:** 435

I have great memories of seeing this T-Bolt at the fantastic CAF Harlingen airshows, but if there is no interest in funding the rebuild, wish they would sell it to Texas Legends, Lewis Warbirds, LSFM, or some other Texas outfit or some Texan who would get it back in the air. Think of the restoration Ezell Aviation could do with this great warbird if given the opportunity.

SaxMan · **Posted:** Wed May 13, 2015 9:40 pm

I know the N models were fast -- but the Cavanaugh page has it with a top speed of 505 mph. That can't be right, can it? I always thought the M models were the fastest T-Bolts with a speed of 473 mph. IIRC, the M model was a D-model with the N-model's more powerful engine.

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Thu May 14, 2015 8:26 am

Hasn't the CAF re assigned this a/c to the Georgia group?

Thomas_Mac · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2015 10:45 pm

Came across this Facebook post on the Cavanaugh Flight Museum Facebook. From November 12, 2013

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The P-47 is out of hiding in hangar 3 for potential sponsors to check out. Come on out to the museum and see the only civilian owned N model P-47 Thunderbolt in existence

Things may have changed since then, just know everyone loves pictures!

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