Warbird Information Exchange

Greetings All -

I was up in Yankton, SD last weekend seeing family and spent a bit of time at the airport checking out transients heading home from Oshkosh along with a few of the home based aircraft.

Enjoy the Day! Mark

Transients...











The Pembertons and their 185 stayed the night on Friday...



... and the hometown birds...

Hey Mark,

Is there still a T-38 mounted as a gate guard at the Yankton airport? If so, did you get any pics of it while you were there?

Thanks,

Steve

Mark,

Ellen and I both grew up 25 or so miles south of Yankton, and I used to work at what is now the GM dealership just west of the airport. Small world, huh?

Scott

Hi Steve -

Indeed there is. I did not take pics this time around but have on past visits. I'll post those tinight.

Hi Scott -

Small indeed! The parents of someone I went to school with back in Aurora, IL moved there as well a few years ago. Of all the placers on earth...

Enjoy the Day! Mark

I have a mini-mystery that sharp WIXers may be able to solve.

As I told Mark, I worked just a mile or so from the Yankton airport back in the early/mid eighties. My boss had served in Korea, and suddenly he dropped what he was doing and exclaimed "I hear a P-51!" I hadn't heard it yet, but he told me to follow him. A few minutes later we were at Chan Gurney Airport watching a Mustang and Spitfire taxi in for fuel and a leg-stretch on their way to Oshkosh. We went back to work before they left (I think the pilots went into town for a bite to eat). When they were doing their preflight checks the Spit went up on it's nose, and the airplane stayed in Yankton for quite some time before propeller and engine repairs were completed. I know it was a Griffon engined airplane, but I can't remember if it was bubble-canopied or not.

Does anyone else remember this incident and the airplane involved?

Hi Steve -

Here you go....

Enjoy the Day! Mark

Excellent Mark!

Thank you very much. She looks like they take pretty good care of her.

Steve