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A roadtrip through 5 US states, with Washington State providing a considerable dose (and page 1) of vintage aviation, propliners. Some 60-odd pics on this page and you should not be allergic to text & information.
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/usa14.htm

comments welcomed
Ruud

Thanks for posting

Nice stuff for sure. You really put a lot of work into that and we appreciate it. Thanks.

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I met the man who is restoring the Moses Lake PBY...he has a lot of hard to find interior fittings for it. It looks to be a long-term project.
At Moses Lake...the former Larson AFB, you missed the B-23 inside a nearby hangar.
PM me if you'd like photos of it taken 2 years ago.

You may have missed a Seebee at Deer Park, but it's kept in a hangar, so you didn't really miss it. Out in the open is a damaged Twin Beech...stripped of engines and who knows what else.
Also, an abandoned Mooney Cadet...a one-tailed Ercoupe...it needs a good home. The field is also home to a Mooney Mite.

Also, you should have stopped by Spokane's Felts Field...lots of antiques there...though some (a Travel Air 4000, Stearman C3, and the Laird is up for sale..it may have sold by now) have been sold in the last year as their owners age.
It's home of a squadron-worth of Stearmans, and Addison Pemberton's fleet of biplanes...a Stearman 4DM, his modified PT-13/17, cabin WACO, his rapidly progressing Grumman Goose project which should fly next year...and his Boeing 40...which spends the winter at the Western Antique Aircraft and Automobile museum in Hood River.
There is also a Seebee on the field with a rarely seen AN-2.
There is also a ex-Army U-21 in semi-military paint (old Army scheme without stars & bars and square windows painted round to look like a King Air) being used as a maintenance trainer by a missionary aviation school. The Community College maintenance program has a couple of O-2s and a T-39.
At nearby Fairchild AFB there is a D-Day marked C-47 on static display ...along with a MiG killer B-52D, F-101, F102, F-86A, B-26, T-37, F-105B.

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Thanks guys,
for the kinds words and oh boy sure sorry to read what I missed not visiting Felts Field, did not know of its existence.
I would like to go back some day as in Coeur d'Alene I was advised to visit the Byrd Aviation museum but found it north of our route, too much a detour.
At Moses Lake I was pressed for time, only looked across the fence onto the ramp. There is I think also a Convair (?) parked at a fire practise site but one needs top travel dirt roads along the fence I think - judging Google Maps.
John, will send that pm in a minute

Ruud (Rudi)