P-61 Restoration Pics

[4RG.I.'S]

My understanding is that Yanks in Chino retains some P-61 control surfaces and other parts retained from an aircraft scrapped in Blythe in the 1960s. There is also a P-61 Turret under restoration to operating condition in California.

I took a picture of a crate in the Yanks boneyard last October spray painted "P-61" but of course it alludes me now when I could use it. Our guide confirmed "P-61" meant the model designation and it wasn't a coincidence.

Me too! Yeah... I saw that last year when we were there for the POF show. Did it look like this?

[Mick G]

Somebody really needs to seriously look into this and find out if the Greenland bird is still there and if it is worthy of recovery. You'd think Kermit would be all over this potential project.......

[marine air]

Well I just posted my comments to see what the thoughts were. The mold process sounds very difficult. If I ever have "too much money", I would like to buy a small woodworking shop and start building new fuselages for some of these aircraft that were quite good in their day but are mostly grounded due to their wood structures. Examples that come to mind are the Timm N2T-1, the Bucker BU-181 Bestmann, and most of the Lockheed Vegas.
As popular as the Bucker Jungmann and Jungmeister are, my guess is the Bestmann would be a pure joy to fly aerobatics.

[DH82EH]

Marine Air,
Don't forget to add to this equation that MAAM also had to recover this machine from Mt Cyclops in PNG.
I think it would get my vote for that level of determination. This has been a slog!

Those pics from Chino are very interesting. that magnesium spoiler looks to be in great shape.
The ones that MAAM had to start with look pretty rough.

Cool thread.

Andy