New Hampshire Aviation Museums / Sites

mrhenniger · **Posted:** Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:01 pm

I am trying to build-up a New Hampshire section to the Locator, but there doesn't seem to be much (aviation wise) in that state...
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Locator.html#USA_NH

Atlantic Warirds was once based at Danville. They are no longer there correct? Didn't their DC-4 head over the pond?

Is there a "Dakota Aviation Museum" in Mason?

Is there an A-4 in Nashua?

If you know of anything of special interest aviation whise (plane on a pole, plane in a park, museums, etc...) I would like to hear about them.

Mike

Scott Rose · **Posted:** Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:46 pm

I think the A-4 is at the FAA center and not accessible to the public. Not positive though

mrhenniger · **Posted:** Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:59 pm

Scott WRG Editor wrote:

I think the A-4 is at the FAA center and not accessible to the public. Not positive though

Could you give me some coordinates? I am not having any luck finding it.

Mike

krlang · **Posted:** Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:33 pm

lat=42.7344785154, lon=-71.4800587

Its on the front lawn of the FAA center on the side of route 3 in Nashua.
Its SSE of the airport, you can see the silhouette on Google Earth.
I have not seen it in years.

krlang · **Posted:** Fri Nov 24, 2006 8:52 pm

BTW, The DC-4 is long gone, and as a matter of fact, it was still in the airport pic on Google earth at Lawrence, MA (KLWM) just a few weeks ago. Recently updated, last week or so, its no longer in that spot, the picture shows a camoflaged Navion sitting there.
Daville, I have never heard of Daville, NH. Jimmy Vocell lived in Derry or something, he flies for Jeff Clyman now, Also, the boys lost their C-45 a few years back after an engine failure over Nashua. (Shut off wrong engine)
I still see them wearing their flight suits at various airshows with the Atlantic Warbirds patches, mostly crewing Jeff Clymans C-47.
Jimmy, Pat, his brother Mike, Kevin and his brother, Oops I cant forget Steevie, Roland and John to mention a just a few are out and about in this area all summer.

krlang · **Posted:** Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:10 pm

Heres a spot worth mentioning too Mike,

Beverly Municipal Airport in Beverly Massachusetts. (KBVY)
As you drive into the parking lot on the East side of the airport there is a Mig-17 sitting on the corner of the ramp facing right at you. It has not flown in about 5 years at least. I hear that the cockpit holds water and the canopy doesnt!
To the right of that on the other side of the driveway is a UH-1 mounted on a pole. It is a Veitnam Memorial. I have never read the Plaque, I noticed that they repainted it a few weeks back. (ironically, I was driving out of the driveway and I noticed someone smoothing a cement pad before it was mounted there. It was my Uncle, I had not seen him in years)
In the airport resturant there are various pictures of the airport in its heyday as a Naval Training base, and the big airshow of 1945.
There are a couple of ducks buried on the airport from back in those days. Also in 1945 there was a B-17 flown into BVY for it to be put on display in a playground in Salem, MA. It was damaged by vandals over the next few years and eventually sold for scrap in 1947.
Ive heard stories of how the navy used to put a truck out in the middle of the airport and the planes would dive bomb it all afternoon. I also was told the story of the airplane that dropped a target sleeve into Wenham Lake, a drinking water reservoir, because it was shot to shreds and fell off before returning to the airport.
Also located on the airport, the world famous 136788! Owned by the GWF himself! (Great White Father, Not the other GWF)
Operated as the "New England Warbirds", along with a Cessna O-2

krlang · **Posted:** Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:28 pm

The DC-3 in Hampton, NH (7B3) is owned by the:

The Dakota Aviation Museum,
492 Old Ashby Road,
Mason, NH 03048.
Which is the address for a private airport named, Mason Airport (NH76)?

It is in Northeast Airlines colors and is flown once in a blue moon.

krlang · **Posted:** Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:40 pm

Also:
New Hampshire is the home of the only registered Ice Runway in the country.

(B18) Alton Bay Seaplane Base
Alton Bay, New Hampshire, USA
Runway 1/19
Dimensions: 3500 x 100 ft. / 1067 x 30 m
Surface: water
DURING FREEZING CONDITIONS, ICE RUNWAY PLOWED TO APPROX 3000 FEET, CALL AMGR FOR CONDITIONS.
Operational restrictions: ICE RY IN WINTER, PLOWED & USBL WINTER MONTHS.
RUNWAY 1 RUNWAY 19
Traffic pattern: left left
Obstructions: 50 ft. tree, 60 ft. from runway, 125 ft. right of centerline, 1:1 slope to clear none

It is just south of Wolfeboro, on the same lake. I love Wolfeboro, I hear the airport is gone though. There used to be a Fuji sitting in the grass there. (4 seat T-34)

krlang · **Posted:** Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:02 pm

I might as well keep going.
Plum Island Airport in Newbury, MA
Home of the Burgess Aviation Museum. One of the first airports in the country. Burgess aircraft memorabilia on display.

I just received an E-mail of the Christmas Party at the airport on Dec. 16th.
This is a small airport with alot of history and turmoil, its alot of fun, and always changing. In the past five years it has been operated by 5 different operations. Has had a dispute with an A$$ of a former operator/land owner who jeopardizes the safety at the airport by placing heavy equipment and campers on the end of the runway he says he owns. Hence the displaced threshold and fence.
Years ago it was home to several ME-108s and Storches.

They have a pot luck lunch every month on the first sunday, rain or shine.
We have seen it all here!
AN-2s, DC-3s, Pitts aerobatics, Navion formation flying, and on this little 2200' runway we have seen, several L-39 Low approaches, V-22 Stop and goes, and even just a few weeks ago, 2 low passes by a friend in his Turbo Commander!

Its a great porch to hang out on on a warm summer day, the wind off the ocean is perfect. Except when its Greenhead season!

phil65 · **Posted:** Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:21 am

Never been but here is one.
http://www.nhahs.org/index.htm

L2Driver · **Posted:** Sun Nov 26, 2006 11:38 am

Not particularly aviation related but the Wright Museum, located in Wolfeboro, NH, is pretty decent WW2 museum. There's emphasis on life on the home front but they do have a military annex which contains a couple of tank, halftracks, jeeps and an L-2 suspended from the ceiling.

The name Wright is for the museum's founder and not to do with the Wright brothers.

http://www.wrightmuseum.org/

"Daville, NH" referenced in an earlier post on this thread is was probably meant to be, "Danville, NH".

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2006 3:50 am

KrLang....................
The Dakota Group in Mason NH. That is the owners private airstrip. He is a retired Delta capt. He owns the DC-3. Great Guy!! "Finest Kind"

Helped paint that airplane, repaired and reinstalled the #1 oil tank. Also got 1.7 hrs dual in the left seat.

There is pics of her on airliners.

mrhenniger · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:35 am

krlang wrote:

Beverly Municipal Airport in Beverly Massachusetts. (KBVY) As you drive into the parking lot on the East side of the airport there is a Mig-17 sitting on the corner of the ramp facing right at you. It has not flown in about 5 years at least. I hear that the cockpit holds water and the canopy doesnt!

Got it!

krlang wrote:

To the right of that on the other side of the driveway is a UH-1 mounted on a pole.

Check!

krlang wrote:

Also located on the airport, the world famous 136788! Owned by the GWF himself! (Great White Father, Not the other GWF)
Operated as the "New England Warbirds", along with a Cessna O-2

When I Google "New England Warbirds" I don't get much. Are they at the Beverly airport? If so where exactly?

I have updated your tips in the MA section of the Locator...
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Locator.html#USA_MA
...although I have a number of entries that have not be included yet, so it is not ready to be critiqued yet.

Mike

Mike

mrhenniger · **Posted:** Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:55 am

krlang wrote:

The DC-3 in Hampton, NH (7B3) is owned by the:

The Dakota Aviation Museum,
492 Old Ashby Road,
Mason, NH 03048.
Which is the address for a private airport named, Mason Airport (NH76)?

It is in Northeast Airlines colors and is flown once in a blue moon.

Thanks!

Mike

Rob Mears · **Posted:** Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:22 pm

Does anyone happen to have a photo of the Mig-17 sitting on the Beverley ramp?

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