Hispano HA-200 Saeta in the weeds...

navion91104 · **Posted:** Wed Jun 06, 2018 8:53 pm

Hispano HA-200 Saeta in the weeds at CKB airport in West Virginia. I'd love to have one of these aircraft flying as they were designed by Willy Messerschmitt. This old girl needs some real help! Maybe along with the Vampire jet we could cobble together a museum of jets that would have fought each other in 1946 if the war had continued.

What she once was...

Courier Sportster · **Joined:** Thu Oct 20, 2011 7:03 am **Posts:** 319

that's a noisy bird there, my ears are still ringing

steve dickey · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:30 pm

Interesting in that it looks like the canopy frames are steel? I bet those canopy's are heavy!!

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2018 1:27 pm

Great project, hope it gets saved! Same engines as the Fouga

airnutz · **Posted:** Thu Jun 07, 2018 4:43 pm

powered by "Dog Whistle" Turbomeca Marbore' also built under license for Cessna T-37 "Tweetie"

HPDCapt · **Posted:** Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:58 pm

I think I saw one of these fly at an airshow in Parkersburg WV 8-10 years ago. I believe it was based in Ohio.

JohnB · **Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2018 7:58 am

A few were imported years ago as jet warbirds ("Gee, near P-51 performance at a fraction of the cost"... but likely not taking into account the long term realities of operating an old foreign jet) along with various MB-326, L-29s, T-11s and the like.

I believe several of the lower cost examples are parked...whether due to cost, service difficulties, spares or whatever. Perhaps the original purchasers just got bored with them.

They're rather like various early MiGs that litter ramps. A local guy had one, flew it sparingly before donating it to a local museum....who I believe doesn't quite know what to do with it.

navion91104 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:22 am

JohnB wrote:

A few were imported years ago as jet warbirds ("Gee, near P-51 performance at a fraction of the cost"... but likely not taking into account the long term realities of operating an old foreign jet) along with various MB-326, L-29s, T-11s and the like.

I believe several of the lower cost examples are parked...whether due to cost, service difficulties, spares or whatever. Perhaps the original purchasers just got bored with them.

They're rather like various early MiGs that litter ramps. A local guy had one, flew it sparingly before donating it to a local museum....who I believe doesn't quite know what to do with it.

...fuel bills!!!

Kyleb · **Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:54 am

JohnB wrote:

A few were imported years ago as jet warbirds ("Gee, near P-51 performance at a fraction of the cost"... but likely not taking into account the long term realities of operating an old foreign jet) along with various MB-326, L-29s, T-11s and the like.

I believe several of the lower cost examples are parked...whether due to cost, service difficulties, spares or whatever. Perhaps the original purchasers just got bored with them.

The Experimental Exhibition category really wrecks the utility of these airplanes. I imagine people bore holes in the sky with them for a while and quickly get bored because they can't even take them for a $1000 hamburger.

kalamazookid · **Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2018 11:47 am

World Heritage Air Museum has two Saetas. One is airworthy, but I'm not sure how often it flies.

https://www.worldheritageairmuseum.org/ha200

old iron · **Posted:** Sun Jun 10, 2018 5:38 pm

There was one at the Garber Facility at NASM, if this is still there. They may want to deaccess this.

The story I heard was that this came from the Egyptians. NASM was expecting a MiG-15 but opened the crate and there it was: an HA-200 Saeta.

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