Warbird Information Exchange

The latest WI is reporting the the gang at Planes of Fame are working on returning the Boeing P-26 Peashooter and the Seversky/Republic AT-12 Guardsman to airworthy standards!
Looks likes folks heading to the big 50th Aniv (of the Museum) Airshow in May are in for some real treats...
Wishing I could go , looking forward to the coverage...

AND their P-35 dang I so wish I could go to CA for that!

The P-35 is actually an AT-12...

The P-26 is one of two ex-Guatemalan AF survivors, with the other example being preserved at Wright-Pat.


The following, is from my research notes on the Latin American Seversky aircraft:

" . . . Sweden had placed an order for 100 EP-106s (these airplanes were also known by the designation EP-1) and for 50 SEV-2PA-204A two-seat fighters, that would be modified to serve as dive-bombers.

After the first batch of EP-1s were received in Sweden, a second order for 60 EP-1s was signed with Republic. The deliveries were not to be completed, since the United States Government placed an embargo on all military supplies to Sweden on 24 October, 1940; the undelivered airplanes were taken over by the USAAC and given the designation P-35A and were sent to the Philippines in order to reinforce the weak forces in place.

Of the dive-bombers ordered, only two had been delivered, and the remainder 48 examples from this order were taken over by the USAAC, and assigned to various training units, the airplanes redesignated as the AT-12 (advanced trainer) “Guardsman.” They were mainly employed as squadron hacks, and by war’s end, the majority of surviving examples were scrapped.

Two examples survived the scrapping, and were sold in the post-war surplus market.

One, entered as a “Super P-35” into the 1949 Bendix Trophy cross-country speed race. It was registered as NX-55811, race number 61, but engine trouble forced a landing at Grand Juction, Colorado, where its brief racing career ended.

The other example was registered as NX-55539 and served during some time in Latin America, where it was employed as a mapping airplane. On the vertical surfaces, it had a US and a Salvadorean flag, crossed.

It was registered in El Salvador as YS-114, and owned by Archie Baldocchi. After spending some time in El Salvador, it was returned to the USA during the 1950s, and eventually made its way to the collection owned by Ed Maloney, which eventually became the Planes of Fame Museum."



Saludos,


Tulio

Picture can be found here...
http://community.webshots.com/photo/298 ... 1775QtXyqB

Mike

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Thanks Mike, I think I saw this photo when you gave Jason Knutson his DVD LOL. I am friends of his and I am an avid Warbird lover. Heh too bad we take the same photos I would trade DVDs with you as well.

Don't forget the A model Mustang that will fly too!

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Tom N

I guess Im too much of a rain main, not again with these wierdly timed anniversaries as the museum opened Jan 12, 1957.

John

Tom, I was there week before last and saw another one that looked like an "A" model mustang in front of the other one. Are they working on another??

TIA,

Lynn

They have the Air Museum's P-51 and the Friedkin A-36 both under rebuild.

Thanks Chad