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Has anyone been to this museum lately. I was wondering if their Wildcat was ever placed on display.

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I don't know if it's been on display the museum lately, but they do use it at remote events like the Westfield and Westover airshows and such. Since it fits on a regular road trailer, they don't have to worry about Wide Load permits.
Jerry

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I was at the New England Air Museum on September 16th and did not see their FM-2 Wildcat, BuNo 74120. I explored all the display buildings and the aircraft outdoors but did not get to look in their restoration building nor any storage buildings/areas.

Todd

I visited last year and it was in the one of the back buildings not open to the public, looked in fairly good shape

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This Sunday NEAM has one of their Open Cockpit Sunday events. Quite often, they also open up and man their other buildings/areas normally off-limits to museum goers. Maybe, you can look around Sunday and see?

information at: http://www.neam.org/news/calendar.asp#opencockpit

Here are a few shots I have of the NEAM FM-2

First is a shot taken in 1991 while on display;


This is at the 2005 Airshow at Barnes ARB





I did not take any of it while at NEAM last spring on the WIX tour.

Tim

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Tim;
As a former Associate Curator at NEAM, I thought it was neat to see the maniquin in the cockpit with the flight gear on in your first pic. Since I was the Costume Curator, that was one of the dummies I outfitted for the FM-2.
It's been awhile since I've seen it with the "pilot" in it.
Thanks.
Jerry

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Slightly hijacking a thread here...

Any updates on NEAM's Mustang project? Last info I have on it is several years old, indicating it was in the early stages of restoration to static in its 1949 Thompson Trophy/would-be recordbreaker configuration...

S.

And there is sits from what I could tell when we where there this spring, it was in the Back lot storage and not the "restoration Hanger". I assume that means it is not under active restoration at this time.

No pictures taken of it by me.

Tim

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Anson Johnson's P-51, N-13Y, was being worked on by two volunteers up until about 6 years ago. One went to A&P school and shortly thereafter the other had to move to Charlotte, NC when the company he worked for moved. He now is a volunteer with the Carolina Aviation Museum in Charlotte.
Since no one else had the initiative, and other projects were already in the works, N-13Y was put on hold and stored. It would be great to see the project start up again, as the aircraft's Thompson Trophy win and history fills a gap in the museum's unique collection of original Thompson Racers.

Anybody in New England interested?

Blue skies,
Jerry

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HELL YA Hey that wasn't the word I typed

Are you sure thats not a WIX dummy on open cockpit day?

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I hope that before they start to work on that P-51 again they need to worry about getting the F-4 and the A-10 back inside before the weather takes a toll on them ...