I was tooling around on Google Earth tonight and noticed an F-84 (52-8837) that was a guard gate at the airport in Richmond, VA for several years. It's gone now, along with an F-105 (61-0050) and an A-7 (72-0192) that were also displayed with the F-84. All three are now at AMARC. I couldn't find any discussion about them, but the aerial visuals dossier on the site (
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/LocationDos ... erial=3958) shows both the Thud and the Corsair II dismantled and loaded up for AMARC.
Any idea if the Thud or F-84 were offered to the Virginia Aviation Museum across the field? They already have an A-7 (parked in front, visible on GE).
edit: Found some discussion here about the F-105:
viewtopic.php?p=442354second edit: interesting discussion here (
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-8627.html) on that -105 having "two cracked wings and one cracked fuselage mount" and then this: "I remember late in the -105 days when parts were hard to come by, and before 61-0050 was mounted on a stick, the bosses would say "take it off balls 50". I was always afraid that I would be the one who removed the nut, bolt, or screw that made the whole airplane collapse around me. That jet is just a shell. Absolutely nothing in it except skin. Hell, they even painted it grey! Nobody asked me for my opinion when it came to painting it..."