The Warning Star Rescue Project

[seabee1526]

http://yankeeairmuseum.org/rescue/

[APG85]

Great news! Awesome plane...!!!

[Pat Carry]

Great that it was saved.

[JohnB]

Good for them, I can't say I've seen a Navy example preserved.

[sandiego89]

Good for them, I can't say I've seen a Navy example preserved.

Pensacola has 143221

I believe some other Navy Survivors are painted as Air Force versions.

Indeed good on Yankee!

[kalamazookid]

Of all the aircraft at Chanute, this was the one I was most worried about seeing scrapped. So glad to see that the Connie will get a new home at a museum that will be able to restore it and keep it indoors. Yankee is going to have an impressive display area some day with the Connie and Privateer!

[JohnB]

I would have been more Impressed with Yankee if they hadn't scrapped the the AW Argosy, a much rarer type than the Connie with only a couple preserved worldwide.
This isn't to say I'd rather have that than the Connie, but it is a rare type and deserves at least some attention. The type was imported for Riddle airlines who needed them for Air Force contract LOGAIR flights to USAF bases with spare parts. As a kid I saw one landing at our base and asked my father who was at that time, chief of base operations. He described it as an English four-engine turboprop C-119.

I WAS going to give them my old manufacturer desk model of the type, but they blew that chance.

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[Scott Rose]

Great to hear. Always liked the looks of them.

[Chris Brame]

Who will be doing the dismantling and transport?

[ZRX61]

I would have been more Impressed with Yankee if they hadn't scrapped the the AW Argosy, a much rarer type than the Connie with only a couple preserved worldwide.
This isn't to say I'd rather have that than the Connie, but it is a rare type and deserves at least some attention. The type was imported for Riddle airlines who needed them for Air Force contract LOGAIR flights to USAF bases with spare parts. As a kid I saw one landing at our base and asked my father who was at that time, chief of base operations. He described it as an English four-engine turboprop C-119.

I WAS going to give them my old manufacturer desk model of the type, but they blew that chance.

The one at WJF might be headed for the scrappers next

[Pat Carry]

I would have been more Impressed with Yankee if they hadn't scrapped the the AW Argosy, a much rarer type than the Connie with only a couple preserved worldwide.
This isn't to say I'd rather have that than the Connie, but it is a rare type and deserves at least some attention. The type was imported for Riddle airlines who needed them for Air Force contract LOGAIR flights to USAF bases with spare parts. As a kid I saw one landing at our base and asked my father who was at that time, chief of base operations. He described it as an English four-engine turboprop C-119.

I WAS going to give them my old manufacturer desk model of the type, but they blew that chance.

The one at WJF might be headed for the scrappers next

I'm having a senior moment, WJF??

[Chris Brame]

I'm having a senior moment, WJF??

WJF is Fox Field in Lancaster, CA. Must be XP447.

(Wikipedia - By Alan Radecki Akradecki - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2781367)

[Pat Carry]

I'm having a senior moment, WJF??

WJF is Fox Field in Lancaster, CA. Must be XP447.

(Wikipedia - By Alan Radecki Akradecki - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2781367)

Thanks. Is this the one at the now closed Milestones of Flight Museum??

[RuudLeeuw]

Yes it is.
I think the B-25 was the only one yet saved; the C-119 went unsold at an auction last year (?) afaik.
www.ruudleeuw.com/usa08-lancaster.htm

Btw, that Warning Star at Chanute Aerospace is not out of the woods yet, still funding required (afaik) for the transport to the Yankee Air Museum.
I have made an item on the fate of various aircraft in Chanute's collection
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/guestphotos-48.htm

Hopefully that Warning Star can be made 'definite' soon!

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Rudi

[Chris Brame]

Hi Rudi,

You're welcome to use any of the photos from Chanute in my two Flickr albums from 2015 and 2016:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/62734960@ ... 9082057540

https://www.flickr.com/photos/62734960@ ... 4485372390

Thanks for all your fine work!