Historic Aviation Restoration Museum - Pt. III

[Mark Nankivil]

Good Day!

Part III for your perusal and viewing pleasure...

Enjoy the Day! Mark

[Bear]

Mark, I've really been enjoying your pictures. Just wondering if any of these are flyers? It's really an impressive collection.

[Mark Nankivil]

Hi Bear -

Thanks - and yes, they are all flyers save the Monosport skeleton which at some point will be restored to flying condition. There might be one or two (the Travel Air 2000 comes to mind) that need a bit more than fuel and a kick of the tires to take them flying but they could be flown in short order.

Enjoy the Day! Mark

[Bear]

Hi Bear -

Thanks - and yes, they are all flyers save the Monosport skeleton which at some point will be restored to flying condition. There might be one or two (the Travel Air 2000 comes to mind) that need a bit more than fuel and a kick of the tires to take them flying but they could be flown in short order.

Enjoy the Day! Mark

That's fantastic!

[Roger Cain]

A very nice collection, I'll have to get out there one of these days, thanks for posting.

[dmx]

What's the bird in the fifth pic ? Flagg ? Is that a production aircraft or a homebuilt. I like the sporty looks of it. Looks a bit like a '30 fighter.

[Roger Cain]

What's the bird in the fifth pic ? Flagg ? Is that a production aircraft or a homebuilt. I like the sporty looks of it. Looks a bit like a '30 fighter.

Apparently this was the only one built, it's a 1933 Flagg F-13 serial number 1

Scroll down the page to FLAGG @ http://www.aerofiles.com/_f.html

[Don Parsons]

I have pix from the museum on my website. I took some more today, but more and more I'm doing video.

http://fairchild24.com

don

[Warbird Kid]

DMX

You read my mind!

[bdk]

Just wondering if any of these are flyers? It's really an impressive collection.

They have to be or they would be underwater every 15 years or so when the river floods the airport.

[Warbird Kid]

These aircraft must be low mantience, to keep so many flyable!


P.S. I still wish i could make new builds of that Flagg F-13. Imagine seeing some in Civil colors as well as some creative owners put dummy guns, and a OD paint job on her! Complete with the red dot and the star.

Thats what i woud do.

[astixjr]

Just wondering if any of these are flyers? It's really an impressive collection.

They have to be or they would be underwater every 15 years or so when the river floods the airport.

BDK, I prefer to think of Creve Coeur Airport as "ecologically forward thinking" in that every so often, we allow ther Missouri River to come in and re-fresh our soil base so that the grass runways will continue to be the best in the nation. And by the way, we are the only airport in the nation that is listed by the FAA as being fully amphibious. Since our runway lights work underwater, we allow nightime seaplane operations during the soil enrichment events.

[Mark Nankivil]

No wonder the crops look so good around the field!

Enjoy the Day! Mark

[bdk]

BDK, I prefer to think of Creve Coeur Airport as "ecologically forward thinking" in that every so often, we allow ther Missouri River to come in and re-fresh our soil base so that the grass runways will continue to be the best in the nation. And by the way, we are the only airport in the nation that is listed by the FAA as being fully amphibious. Since our runway lights work underwater, we allow nightime seaplane operations during the soil enrichment events.

Sounds like a intermittent wetlands to me! Haven't they now "fixed" the river so this can't happen anymore?

[astixjr]

BDK,
Well, the fact is that God and or Mother Nature (depending on your take on this kind of an issue) have ordained that we are situated in a "floodplain". The levee protecting us is now officially capable of protecting us from a 500 year flood event so last year the Federal Government issued a LOMR (letter of map revision) that in effect, says we are no longer in a floodplain. This is a bit like whistling past the graveyard so we try to keep most everything in the museum at least "flyable", if not actually "in annual". At this point, I'm as concerned about the New Madrid Fault as I am another 500 year flood event. Still, I frequently check the river stage readings because they actually give you some amount of warning. A seismograph just tells you how much the earth is moving below your feet. Of course, being in Kahleefonia, you know all about that problem already.