Warbird Information Exchange

I asked Mark Foster that very question when we were there. He didn't know either. The only thing I can think of is that it must've been a movie prop at some time or something like that.

Gary

Thanks for getting them on the concrete, Gary. It was heartbreaking for me, also, to see those pictures of them in the weeds, especially after having seen pictures of them both airborne in the eighties. Hopefully, some space under roof will be available for them pretty soon.

George

Give me one I will build you one

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Is that paint scheme correct? I never knew the St. Louis Navy Reserve group had Maulers! Everyone start chanting, Eric! Eric! Eric!........A Skyraider and a Mauler together? What a freak show! I will start pestering him this very evening.

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To my limited knowledge, the St. Louis scheme is correct on the CAF Mauler. Could be wrong, probably am.
It's the meatball in the star on the side of the PoF Mauler that I was wondering about. The Maulers were obviously flying waaaaay after that version of the star was taken out of service.

Gary

astixjr - The paint scheme is correct. St. louis had 4 squadrons. I have a feeling the CAF Mauler was still carrying the original paint from the St. Louis Reserves. I have read that this scheme, i.e., St. Louis under NAVY, was the last scheme they used. Hope this helps.

George

Gary- Awhile back, a member of the CAF Arizona Wing said at one time they had the "parts" Mauler, and it made up enough parts for 2 Maulers. I believe he said both were missing their canopies, though. So does the CAF actually have 3 airframes? Thanks.

To my knowledge, the CAF only has the ones that I've pictured in this thread. If there is another Mauler airframe around somewhere, I haven't heard about it. Of course, that doesn't mean much. They don't tell me much around here.

Gary

It would be nice to see one of them shipped back to their birthplace at the Martin / Maryland Aviation Museum in Middle River. If they could get a Mauler and get one of the Mars seaplanes, now that would be something!

Here's a pic of the NEAM/Tillamook Mauler I took back in March of 1981.
Work was being done on it when the tornado hit in 1979.
That caused a BIG stoppage in the restoration programs until the museum could get back on it's feet.



I wish we could've kept it! It would've look great next to the museum's as yet unrestored AD-4!
Blue skies,
Jerry

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I just read that according to a minister in Brownfield, who was close to a CAF member who was working on restoring the Mauler(s) in the 80's, the CAF had either 3 or 4 Maulers at Brownfield, using parts off all of them to make a flyer. So there is at least one, and maybe ther are two, Mauler airframes unaccounted for. Maybe this ties in to what the Arizona CAF member had said about two parts planes. Could anyone from the Brownfield days clarify this? Thanks.

After looking at the photos again, it just occurred to me that I was somehow not aware that the Mauler was corncob-powered. DUH?

Man, it sure would be sweet to see one flying again. Better yet, how about a pair, done up as a hunter-killer pair?

Cheers!

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida