Aviation Restaurants

[Chris Brame]

The 94th did have some WWI planes on display before; I spotted this remnant hiding in a corner:

[fortrena]

Greetings,

The following may be of interest

https://copanational.org/en/2018/08/16/ ... ineau-gem/

Stay safe,

[Steve Nelson]

Wow Steve!!!!

Did they build a brick building around it??? At a distance it sure looks like it!

It was sitting on top of the building..or more acturately mounted on steel poles that ran down through the building. The part of the building surrounding the aircraft were the stairways, which connected to the existing entry doors. I once saw some photos of the construction. The plane was trucked in in peices, then mounted on the poles, then the building constructed underneath it. The building wasn't brick, just wood. The exterior siding was wood slats painted brown.

SN

[Chris Brame]

Found another item about the Sky-Hi in the Chicago Tribune; note in these shots N4871C still has much of its Delta paint scheme:

I also found an obituary from 1995 for one of the brothers, John Dimas; it mentioned that the other two (James and Chris) had already passed away by then.

[Michel Lemieux]

It was sitting on top of the building..or more acturately mounted on steel poles that ran down through the building. The part of the building surrounding the aircraft were the stairways, which connected to the existing entry doors. I once saw some photos of the construction. The plane was trucked in in peices, then mounted on the poles, then the building constructed underneath it. The building wasn't brick, just wood. The exterior siding was wood slats painted brown.

SN

Thank you Mr Steve! What an interesting construction!

[Matt Poole]

[quote="Lon Moer"]The is still a Mustang fuselage in the parking lot at Charles Shultz/Santa Rosa, on satellite view.


I just wanted to add a little bit more, regarding Google Earth and this fiberglass P-51.

[I can only add five images at a time, but I have seven total. I'll add the last three in a second post. Two of the three are street views and the other is a satellite view showing where those street views were photographed.]

On Google Earth I saw the satellite view you posted, dated 6/25/2019. On first view, it appears as if only the fuselage was there, and that the wings were missing, but comparisons to other GE satellite imagery, before and after that date, indicate that the wings were still there on 6/25/2019. It is especially obvious when comparing the 6/25/2019 satellite imagery with the next-earlier GE sat imagery, dated 9/19/2018. (Whoever prepared the 6/25/2019 imagery for GE faded this imagery in this area, as it merged with another satellite shot, presumably. The fuselage is still noticeable, but the wings are harder to see.)

Clearly the left wing was separated from the fuselage in the 9/19/2018 shot; shadows prove this. The horizontal stabilizers and elevators at the rear of the P-51 are missing.

The next-available GE satellite imagery after the 6/25/2019 date is 7/28/2019. Although this imagery is fuzzy, I can definitely see evidence that the wings were still there.

After 7/28/2019, the next Sat imagery is dated 10/29/2019. It is even fuzzier, but still I can see that the wings were there at this October date.

The final sat image offered by GE is dated 9/29/2020, but smoke from the terrible wildfires to the east completely obscures the P-51.

I went to “street view” and was able to see the aircraft from two vantage points on the ground. The wings were definitely sitting on the ground. The street view imagery (for each view I've attached) is simply dated 4/2019.

Since the last useful GE imagery – satellite or street view – only goes to 10/29/2019, over a year ago, I don't know if the P-51 is still there.

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[Matt Poole]

Here are the last three:

>> The two street views showing the P-51 in the distance, and
>> A guide to where these two street view photos were taken.

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[Tulio]

Late November 2005. Gillespie Field, El Cajon CA


Saludos,


Tulio

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[JohnB]

Back in circa 1978, the brother of my late wife flew is from Van Nuys to Onxard for lunch in a 182 (rented from the FBO where Robert Conrad was learning to fly (...and reportedly living in a RV in the parking lot after a divorce. At any rate, there was a huge motor home in the parking lot)...
The restaurant at Oxnard had an aviation theme. The sneeze guard over the salad bar was a T-33 canopy.
Anyone else remember it?

Around the same time, the McDonald's near the Boise airport had aviation decor, there were several large 3'x4' photos of Idaho ANG RF -4Cs on display along with shadow boxes of cockpit instrument faces?
Anyone remember that?

Finally, at Felts Field here in Spokane the long time restaurant survives in the renovated 1920s terminal building. Lots of photos and posters, nothing terribly rare, but a who's who of local aviation history. The terminal itself has lots of historic photos on display showing the 1927 National Air Races that were held there and the early days of the WA National Guard on the field. And you never know what you'll see on the ramp...recently a Aerostar twin with its piston engines replaced by small jets slung under the wing, just like a Me-262. Really.

The governor just announced that restaurants and museums can now open (with limited capacity) along with the new Historic Flight Foundation museum a couple of hangars down. So if you are looking for something to do or a place to go for a "Hundred dollar hamburger", I'm sure those two establishments would welcome a visit.

[Lon Moer]

<> The sneeze guard over the salad bar was a T-33 canopy.
Anyone else remember it?
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I don't know what restaurant was at Oxnard, but the T-33 canopy was a feature of the "Red Baron" restaurants.

[aerovin]

The restaurant at Oxnard was a Red Baron, if I recall correctly. One of the Tallichet restaurants.

[ricusa]

Remember the 94th in Columbus Oh had a falling apart P51 replica out front.

[p51]

I know there was a restaurant with an old airliner along I-75 in southern Georgia. I was just a kid when we'd drive by it on trips to visit family in Tennessee. This says it was near Warner Robbins but has no details: https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/342

[Tulio]

A few Texas airport restaurants.

I have gone a couple of times for a $100 hamburger, at the Brenham Airport restaurant.



http://www.brenhammunicipalairport.com/ ... ge0003.htm

https://www.thebigbib.com/the-big-bib-b ... on-airport

http://www.swaviator.com/html/issueas01/Stinson.html

https://www.blackwalnutcafe.com/locatio ... r-airport/

https://hangar6aircafe.com/

https://www.hangarhotel.com/diner


Saludos!


Tulio
Thawing out in Texas-tundra

[Tulio]

Now long gone, 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant, Lambert Field, Saint Louis MO


https://losttables.com/94th/94th.htm


Saludos


Tulio