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quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1595

Hope this will kick off a few interesting photos:

When BGen Henry Spicer was boss of CTAF, he flew this 'rainbow queen' F-86F. Would make a neat warbird colour scheme, with matching bone dome.

sledge39 · **Joined:** Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:01 pm **Posts:** 262

#1 ... N8687D... Chino Sept 1972 ... pilot: Joe Simonanoak ...

#2 ... Hoover ... Reno '72 ...

sledge39 · **Joined:** Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:01 pm **Posts:** 262

.
... N8686D ... Chino 1973 ... Mojave 21 Oct 1973, pilot LeRoy Penhall ...

... N8687D ... Chino 1972 ... Mojave 21 Oct 1973, pilot Gary Levitz ...

jwc50 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 17, 2016 8:40 pm

Love those "Civvie" Sabre paint schemes!

AG pilot · **Joined:** Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:13 am **Posts:** 553

Just beautiful!!

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1595

Couple more of Spicer's aircraft:

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1595

Another couple, and a question:

173rd FIS NB ANG F-86D, but with an unusual pod mounted on the outer skin of the rocket tray (photo below) and in place of the rocket tray (above).

The pod was marked 'An OGAMA product', so assume a Hill AFB origin (OGAMA wasn't a regular F-86D overhaul facility, but the pod sems to have originated there). But what was it? Personnel pod or radar reflector?

oz rb fan · **Joined:** Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:33 am **Posts:** 474

not truly an F86.......but a CAC Avon sabre A94-983

Lon Moer · **Posted:** Tue Jan 19, 2016 11:06 pm

Bob Love's Canadian Sabre MkVI N201X

Warbirdnerd · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:34 pm **Posts:** 2923

This one is a couple of hours away from me. I need to go back and see it again...

eallen · **Posted:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 1:42 pm

Here are a couple of pics from Ramona Airport in San Diego County sometime in 1991.

Darryl Greenamyer moving his F-86.

This picture had "Buddy Todd's F-86" written on the back but I think it appears to be the same jet.

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Wed Jan 20, 2016 5:04 pm

Warbirdnerd wrote:

This one is a couple of hours away from me. I need to go back and see it again...

From Forgotten Fighters:

Nathan Decker wrote:

F-86D-55-NA s/n 53-719
*Upgraded to F-86L.
*USAF 329th FIS (4722nd ADG).
*Was preserved in Grand Forks, ND.
*Currently preserved in Wells, MN.

I like the old scheme better!

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

Photo by Capt. Anthony Eris, via FMAH (Honduras) thence via laahs.com

San Pedro Sula airport, Honduras.

Saludos,

Tulio

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1595

The San Pedro Sula Sabre 4s desperately need someone to rescue them: I have been involved in a couple of time-waster efforts to do just that and I can only hope that a serious collector might do the deed. All are ex-RAF, ex-Yugoslav AF and converted to 6-3 wing at the end of RAF service or just prior to going to Yugoslavia (RAF had a mix of wing types).

Over the years the identities of these aircraft have become confused, and from my analysis of the photo above, the status of those shown is:

Eight Sabre 4s were retired by the FAH, with the five aircraft seen here, plus FAH3003 or 3009 elsewhere at SPS (see below), also derelict.

FAH3006 (retired after NLG collapse) is preserved in Honduras and FAH3003 or FAH3009 is preserved at Santiago Los Cerillos, but parading as '3006'.

Here are a couple of period shots of four shown huddled above:

4RG.I.'S · **Posted:** Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:36 am

It appears that the collection may be growing there. Google maps shows, I believe, 7 F-86s now...

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