Where Are They Now........Philly Air Show 1955

[Shay]

Airnutz posted couple of these pictures in the "All Hail The Hercules" thread. One thing I like to try and do with olf aircaft pictures is to tried trace where they are to day. So here it goes.

Great set of pictures by the way:
http://www.pbase.com/marauder61/philadelphia_air_show_1955


Kaman HOK-1 ,BuNo. 129803 to civil registry as N5162Q to "Command Helicopter Inc.", Oregon in 1970 any ideas on her present day where abouts?




An Actual 2F-1 Sopwith Camel N6254 now with ARKANSAS AVIATION HISTORICAL SOCIETY, @ the Arkanas Air museum maybe?





F7U-3 Cutlass BuNo. 129567, depicted here while asigned to the NATC---No Trace of this Aircraft.





FJ-2 Fury, BuNo hard to make out 1320XX--Any ideas?





AD-5 Skyraider, BuNo. 133926, to USAF as 52-133926. Lost Nov 29, 1966





Piasecki YH-16-PH Transporter, Ser No 50-1270. I believe this being the 2nd prototype, is the one that crashed in December in this year 1955





F-86F-25-NH Sabre, Ser No. 52-5434, on display at Brasil, IN.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/jetregistry/f86registry/f86-525434.html




Piasecki YH-21-PH Workhorse, Ser No. 50-1244, -- No Trace





Fairchild C-123B-4-FA Provider, Ser No. 54-577 converted to C-123K. To South Vietnam AF, later returned to USAF. Possibly transferred to Air America then to Royal Laos Air Force. Any Ideas?





Boeing JTB-29-96-BW Superfortress, Ser No. 45-21800, used as "mothership" for X-1 trials. To MASDC Jul 2, 1959. Scrapped? Kermit Weeks has cockpit?





Lockheed C-130A-LM Hercules, Ser No. 53-3132, to Mexican AF as 10601 (Jul 1987), manintenance at SPAR, Edmonton, Canada (Aug 1999), flying Mar 2003, reserialled FAM 3601 by Sep 2003. Perhaps still flying today?




I'll do more later...or anyone else wants to.

Shay
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[Neal Nurmi]

Those were done by the father of the remarkable contemporary aviation photographer Victor Archer, and edited and archived by Victor. Victor's wonderful current work is occasionally posted on WIX, especially his air race work.

It is due both to the father's shooting skill (he was an aerospace engineer of some sort and not any sort of pro photog) and to Victor's remarkable editing skills that we have these photos to look at today.

Just thought I'd throw in some credit here, as most folks have no idea what's really involved in the survival of storehouses of photos like this. It's a labour of love -- kind of like Warbirds themselves, I guess...

[Shay]

Yes thanks for that Neal. It would be nice to thank Victor and Robert for preserving and sharingthese windows in time. I got kick out of seeing the crewman sitting on the side of the Cutlass cockpit talking with the public, just like you'ld fnd today at an air show.

Douglas C-124A Globemaster II, Ser No. 51-5175 (c/n 43585) converted to C-124C. To MASDC Apr 17, 1969

Seen here later in 1968
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=51-5175&distinct_entry=true





Northrop F-89D-60-NO Scorpion, Ser No. 53-2568, Spring 1955: Assigned to the USAF 58th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, based at Otis AFB, MA.
Crashed on landing 2 July 1956.





Martin RB-57A-MA, Ser No 52-1444, written off 8/6/58, Eglin AFB. Was written off same day as 52-1443. Perhaps lost in same event or accident.





Convair T-29C Flying Classroom, Ser No. 53-3492 converted to VT-29C -- No Trace





Stroukoff YC-123E-SA Provider, Ser No. 55-4031, Was originally C-123B 54-554 (c/n 20003) built at Hagerstown and sent to Stroukoff Aviation Corp of New Jersey.

Interesting aircraft, saw the floats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroukoff_YC-134

Curious to know what happened to this one.





North American F-100A-20-NA Super Sabre, Ser No. 53-1675, 436 FDS/479 TFW to Taiwan as 0155. WFU(?) -- no further information





Lockheed F-94C-1-LO Starfire, Ser No. 51-5526, Assigned to the USAF 96th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, based at New Castle AFB, DE. -- No Other Information.




Shay
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[airnutz]

Ahh, glad to see this thread back on the front page..and with the photo's posted in ONE thread!

I'm getting "red x's" on the 1st four photos, the Turbo Transporter, and the '29 in your
1st post, Shay. Ditto some missing ones in your 2nd post. Maybe my 'puter or AOL glitch, tho.

Mike Furline is the guilty party who brought Mr. Archer's photos to our attention on the WIX.
Truly splendid stuff!!! Victor still has 40 more from the '55 Philly he has yet to post!! Waiting for
more is gonna' be tough. He probably would appreciate knowledgeable folks logging on to his
page to help with the ID's as some of these birds are unlabeled.

As to the YH-16A..I was under the impression this bird didn't make its 1st flight with the turbines till
December 1955, and perished in Jan. 1956. I knew it was a Piasecki, but little else, so my understanding may be off..

[Mike Bates]

Of the few I can see they look great, the rest are all red x's.

Mike

[Steven M. Dennis]

Stroukoff YC-123E-SA Provider, Ser No. 55-4031, Was originally C-123B 54-554 (c/n 20003) built at Hagerstown and sent to Stroukoff Aviation Corp of New Jersey.

Interesting aircraft, saw the floats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroukoff_YC-134

Curious to know what happened to this one.

Thanks for the link on this one Shay. I was wondering about the floats on the '-123. Never saw that mod before....

Steve

[DiggerWW2]

Wow!! Interesting to see color photos of Willow Grove NAS from the 50's. It's just minutes away from Me...

Note how the Public Dressed Up in nice clothes back then, when visiting an Air Show.
They don't look like a bunch of smelly turds like today's "Larry the Cable Guy" Air Show Crowd...

Everyone had so much style & class back then...
Too bad that era is gone forever & People could care less now. Heck, Even some of the Active Duty Military Personel at Willow Grove could care less about wearing a proper Uniform... Digger