Roadside Warbirds from Leon (Woodsy Airfield) + more

[Chris Brame]

Just enjoyed the privilege of going through a new packet of photos from Leon Cleaver (known here as Woodsy Airfield). As he puts it:

Family took a recent 4 day trip to the Atlanta area, and as I always do, some stops along the way were in order to take photos of display or other known military types. There were 10 stops of note.

These were taken from 4-27 through 4-30-15.

T-33 marked 51-9766*, Cambridge, OH Airport:

*This is an F-84G serial - anyone know the real one? (Ed. note: 52-9604 - see below)

F-105 serial 57-5792, Zanesville, OH Muni:

Recent restoration covered on WIX.

F-84F serial 52-7066, Jackson Park, Vienna WV:







AKA the "other" West Virginia Thunderjet. Here it is in service, courtesy Forgotten Fighters:


AH-1F serial 68-17040, American Legion Post 65, Statesville, NC:






B-25C serial 41-13285
Delivered electronics for Mitchell restoration
South Carolina Historical Aviation Foundation, Columbia, SC Hamilton-Owens Airport:



Gary Byrd and Xen Motsinger (VP, Networking and Membership of SCHAF).

SNJ-4 BuNo 27377/N299FM (the 12533 is part of its North American c/n 88-12533), transit area, Hamilton-Owens Airport:


UH-1H, serial 66-16405, American Legion Post 77, Conyers, GA:

This one's a Vietnam Medevac veteran; more history here: http://www.vietnamdustoff.com/dustoffaircraft.html

Gyrodyne QH-50D DASH drone helicopter serial 1715, upon delivery to Larry Montgomery in Carrollton, GA:

Alice Cleaver on right.

F-4E serial 66-0319, VFW Post 5146, Athens, TN:

This actually was a Thunderbird in 1971-72; here it is in camo, again courtesy Forgotten Fighters:


AH-1F serial 68-17085, VFW Post 5156, Sweetwater, TN:




And finally F-101B serial 57-308, Airborne Airpark, Wilmington, OH:








Hope you enjoyed this little road trip! Thanks for looking and thanks to Leon for sharing it with us.

Last edited by Chris Brame on Tue Nov 17, 2015 3:30 pm, edited 2 times in total.

[DH82EH]

Thanks for posting!

Andy

[Rauhbatz]

Glad you got to see our F105 at Zanesville. .

On your next trip try to drop by newark heath airport east of columbus to see the f4 we restored their as well...also a nice Flypast feature!

[Woodsy Airfield]

Our Family had a great trip. Thank you Chris for posting. Rauhbatz - Took a snapshot of F-4 at Newark in March 1992...It looked pretty good then...The WIX network can provide an astounding array of information...Keep on watching.

[Rod Schneider]

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That's the SNJ that I help take care of! It's based at Cherokee County Airport (KCNI) and belongs to Vintage Flights. (Note: the N number listed is incorrect--it's N299FM.)

[Nathan]

Always enjoy aircraft history from Leon! Thanks for sharing! I got excited seeing the F-84 until I saw the "Owned by the usafm" sign. LOL

[Chris Brame]

That's the SNJ that I help take care of! It's based at Cherokee County Airport (KCNI) and belongs to Vintage Flights. (Note: the N number listed is incorrect--it's N299FM.)

Correcting - thanks!

[bdk]

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That's the SNJ that I help take care of! It's based at Cherokee County Airport (KCNI) and belongs to Vintage Flights. (Note: the N number listed is incorrect--it's N299FM.)

Nice plane! Very Harvard 4 looking...

[Chris Brame]

Re the mismarked T-33 at Cambridge, OH - Update from Nathan Decker at Forgotten Fighters:

Hi Chris,
On that T-33, it is actually 52-9604. I'm not sure when or why they changed the serial there, but Ohioans are a weird lot .
Nate