Who's T-6?

[Nathan]

Who's T-6 is this? Different.


http://hongkongdo.fc2web.com/images/lat6b.jpg

[skymstr02]

I think that it is or used to be Steve Gustafson's.

[Neal Nurmi]

Used to be a bunch of T-6 guys out of Southern Cal called themseves "The Condor Squadron" -- half with airplanes in German fighter schemes and half with USAAF fighter colors. They did an excellent air show act kind of like the old Tora Tora CAF show -- dogfighting, strafing, bombing with pyro etc. Good guys -- excellent pilots. Several also raced their airplanes at Reno and Mojave, and several were also well known in the Southwest for their mountain search and rescue skills too ( just imagine working your T-6 up and down Sierra canyons at low level -- legally and for a good cause, too!).

I forget whose this Hun example is or was, but it was one of the Condors...

[vg-photo]

That looks familiar. There are a few Condor guys around Camarillo too, Dan Newcomb probably sees them more than I do. He might know.

[Elroy13]

I remember seeing a T-6 IN German markings from back in the days of the Harlingen airshows. They would always fly with the JU-52. But im not sure who the T-6 belonged to.

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[Neal Nurmi]

Listed in the Reno records as a Harvard Mark 2, Owned in the 70s by Jim Modes and raced by him and by a very loud car dealer named Cal Conroy. Later owned by Ray Schutte and raced by him from 1982 til 1992.

Ray would be quite elderly at this point -- I suspect that number 11 has long since moved on to new owners, unless perhaps his son Carl, who I used to know but haven't seen for years, has kept it in the family...

[krlang]

I really like the 73 or so Monte Carlo.

I bet it had swivel buckets!