Greybull

Neal Nurmi · **Posted:** Tue Dec 01, 2020 3:37 pm

A long time ago I went to Oshkosh, and on the way home briefly stopped in Greybull. I was only there for a couple of hours, but it was a nice snapshot of that place as it was in the summer of 1991. I'm in the middle of a couple of scanning projects, but I'll put some Greybull stuff here as I go...

Greybull Aug 1991 2 157 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull Aug 1991 2 158 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Snake45 · **Joined:** Sat Apr 05, 2014 5:49 pm **Posts:** 864

That might be the 119 now at the Hagerstown Aviation Museum.

Neal Nurmi · **Posted:** Tue Dec 01, 2020 4:08 pm

You numbers guys will have to be patient with me with this stuff. I take pictures, and not notes. I also know little about H and P history -- I don't even know when the auction and liquidation were. I just had a great afternoon with lovely weather and cool airplanes. Totally quiet, nothing going on, just me and the airplanes...

Greybull Aug 1991 1 155 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Michel Lemieux · **Posted:** Tue Dec 01, 2020 8:03 pm

Neal.....we'r just glad you post them:-)

Thank you.

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Wed Dec 02, 2020 9:01 am

Thanks for the photos!

Vzlet · **Joined:** Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:50 am **Posts:** 31

The Hagerstown C-119 (N8093) was code 140.

Neal Nurmi · **Posted:** Wed Dec 02, 2020 12:51 pm

P2V load:

Greybull182 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull182a by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull183 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

C-130 load:

Greybull179 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull180 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Neal Nurmi · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:36 am

What country is this unconverted Orion from?

Greybull186 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull185 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

D1_Greybull186 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Vzlet · **Joined:** Mon Jun 17, 2019 8:50 am **Posts:** 31

The insignia and rudder marking are Spanish.

DH82EH · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:57 pm

Michel Lemieux wrote:

Neal.....we'r just glad you post them:-)

Thank you.

Yup.
Always enjoy your shots and anecdotes Neil.
Thanks

Andy

Neal Nurmi · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:45 pm

Well, just stop me if I get boring. I'm in the middle of scanning a lot of my old film material -- otherwise it's just gonna disappear, along with me. I'll really bore you when I get back to scanning racing material (this firebomber thing kind of happened by accident) -- I should be doing racing but this trip down firebombing Memory Lane has been fun...

Wait til I post a bunch of pictures of my all time favourite T-6 paint scheme, though -- you'll be wishing for firebombers then!

Greybull174 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull176 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull177 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull178 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

JohnB · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:34 pm

There was a similar ex-Spanish P-3 (actually an early ex-USN P3V-1 according to the dataplate) parked in Abilene up until 2003 where it was owned by the community college as a training airframe.
It went to California to Aero Union where I understand it was converted. If any Firebomber buffs know what happened to that airframe, I'd be interested in knowing.

I'm about a two day drive from Greybull (a short drive out here in the wide, wide, west) is there anything remaining there to see. Might be a nice driver this soring.

Neal Nurmi · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:42 pm

I think this is the end of Greybull. Seems like there should be more, but I'm not finding them. After Oshkosh and 3 weeks on the road I was running pretty short of film, anyway...

Greybull184 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull 190 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull 188 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull 189 by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

Greybull 187 a by Neal Nurmi, on Flickr

phil65 · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:46 pm

Nice...

Phil

Neal Nurmi · **Posted:** Thu Dec 03, 2020 9:51 pm

JohnB wrote:

I'm about a two day drive from Greybull (a short drive out here in the wide, wide, west) is there anything remaining there to see. Might be a nice driver this soring.

From what I hear, there's not much left. I think there's a little museum, often closed, and a single C-119 that was kept by the town, or county, or whatever, as an exhibit. I think I've read that the hangars have been taken over by some sort of industrial concern. I'd definitely check things out before making a significant drive to get there.

Plus, Montana has a speed limit these days. It was a lot more fun back then. Montana's the only place where I've ever actually driven more than one hundred miles in one hour. Now that was fun, but it's another time and another story.

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