Warbird Information Exchange

The Military Aviation Museum, mentioned in a previous post, recently received a General Motors CCKW-353 that they plan to restore back to its original role as a functional fuel truck:
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(Source: Military Aviation Museum)

Interestingly, a portion of the Goxhill Watch Office page mentions "Airfield Service Equipment". Did somebody from the museum read this thread? Could this be evidence of a movement toward greater recognition of GSE? Only time will tell!

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While it might not exactly be GSE, I couldn't help but mention this unique microcar labeled "RESTORATION" seen in a virtual tour of the National Naval Aviation Museum:

(Source: National Naval Aviation Museum)

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Two of the USS Hornet Museum's tugs seen in a single shot, one of which was mentioned in a previous post:
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Planes of Fame has an olive drab Clarktor marked as "W-81384" and "POF 2":
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The Canada Aviation and Space Museum has a light blue Trans Canada Airlines Clarktor next to their Lockheed 10:
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The Hixon Museum of Flight has a Pettibone Mercury A-55 GT aircraft tug that they acquired from the Federal Aviation Administration in Orlando, Florida. The FAA, in turn, obtained it from MacDill Air Force Base in 1986. Prior to that, it may have been used at an Air Force base in Alabama:
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(Source: Hixon Museum of Flight)

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The National Air and Space Museum has acquired an Oshkosh T-3000 aircraft rescue truck, Foam 331, that was stationed at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and responded to the Pentagon on during the September 11th attacks:
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(Source: National Air and Space Museum)

It was apparently almost parted out by a Canadian company called Team Eagle, before they recognized its significance and sent it back to Oshkosh to be restored.[1][2]

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The Brooklands Museum has been mentioned in a trio of previous posts (1, 2, 3), but, in what is a first for this thread, there is a piece of sort-of-GSE that has its own website. The AEC Militant Recovery Vehicle at the museum, "Miss Milly Tant", while not originally built as ground support equipment, it has been used to quite literally support various aircraft restoration projects.

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As mentioned in another thread, the War Eagles Air Museum, which was mentioned in a previous post, recently auctioned off some of its excess objects. This included a number of pieces of GSE:

War Eagles Air Museum

• Consolidated MA-2 Ground Power Truck, msn 480, AFsn F01
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• Consolidated NC-5B Aircraft GPU/Tug
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• Marmon-Herrington O-10 Crash Truck; s/n MH1028
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The Air Heritage Museum also has an orange Clark tug:
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(Source: Aviation History Museums)

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Anyone need a new aircraft tug?
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1966- ... ft-towing/

Some cool photos with the listing of the same machine in service.

The NASM has always been light on automobile support systems. However, the NASM collection has recently added the Oshkosh T-3000 Rescue Truck “Foam 331” - this is a firefighting truck, one of two that was on the scene to fight the Pentagon fire during 9-11.

The vehicle is now on display at Udvar Hazy, near the Concord nose. Apologies that I do not have a photo of my own to offer.

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GSE at the Air Mobility Command Museum

• Chase SI Airborne Tractor
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• International R185 - 56L-1210
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• Ford F-350 Airstair
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• GMC Airstair
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• Unknown Airstair
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• Unknown Airstair
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GSE at the Iowa Aviation Heritage Museum
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Also, make sure you check out Supertug, "the most unique aircraft tow tractor in the world"!

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