Found some old photos that I took in the mid 1980s at Mesa, Arizona. Gary Abrams and I had flown up there from Avra Valley Airport to look at a pile of dusters and sprayers that had been offered to he and his father Bud Abrams. It was a big pile of cool stuff but since he and his father already had four Stearmans between them, he decided not to buy the inventory. From what I recall, there were Marsh satellite duster strips all over the place between Tucson and Phoenix. Back in the early 1980s, I landed my Stearman at a bunch of these old duster strips and almost always found a few bits and pieces of Stearmans and N3Ns laying around. I have more photos if anyone wants to see them. I can edit out the N3N stuff because I'm sure nobody wants to see those old clunckers anyway, right?
Landing at Mesa, headed for the Marsh part of the field. Check out all the old fire bombers and sprayers.
You can see Gary Abrams is having second thoughts about this!
Here's a strange looking Stearman.
