Howard Huges's B23 Dragon for sale
Sat May 31, 2008 5:06 am
DOUGLAS B-23 DRAGON • FOR SALE • 1939 Douglas B-23 once owned by Howard Hughes. Email for details. • Contact Fred L. Austin located Sequim, WA USA
Sat May 31, 2008 9:38 am
I'll give you $20 for the plane and $1.8million for the Howard Hughes panache!
I kid, I'd love a B-23
I kid, I'd love a B-23
Mon Jun 02, 2008 4:44 pm
again?? 
Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:07 pm
I think it's more like,
still.
I hope someone with some $$$ and initiative picks it up. It would be great to see it fly again.
still.
I hope someone with some $$$ and initiative picks it up. It would be great to see it fly again.
Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:20 pm
So would that make it three B-23's currently on the market. This one listed above, the one out at the Sanders in Ione, and the CAF bird?
Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:04 pm
If I remember correctly, this is the one at Sanders.
B-23
Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:40 pm
Wildcat2 wrote:If I remember correctly, this is the one at Sanders.
You remember correctly. It's N747M.
Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:12 am
Anyone know the number of the three?
By chance is one of them 39-28?
By chance is one of them 39-28?
Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:52 am
gliderman1 wrote:Anyone know the number of the three?
By chance is one of them 39-28?
The CAF bird N62G, is 39-038. Below is from Joe Baugher's site on what he has on 028.
28 (c/n 2714) to RFC Apr 5,1945. To Starling Airports as NX54584, later NC54584. To
National Distillers Products as N100P in 1954. To Green Bay Packaging
Inc as N58091. Off registry by Feb 1980. Landings database has this plane
registered to Lorenair, Inc of Miami, FL.
Hope that helps.
Robbie
Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:48 am
Good!
This aircraft needs to be in a museum. Pre-RFC (probably at Lunken, Cincy) #39-028.
Assigned to Wright Field and CCAAF, glider test field, it had a model 40 winch installed and was used to snatch under 4,000 lb aircraft such as the XC-81-D, XCG-3, BT-13. Aside from Howard Hughes, pre-RFC, it was flown by snatch experts such as Capt. Lloyd Santmeyer, the late then Lt. E. Lee Jett and then Lt. Robert L. Cardenas (USAF BGen.Ret).
This aircraft needs to be in a museum. Pre-RFC (probably at Lunken, Cincy) #39-028.
Assigned to Wright Field and CCAAF, glider test field, it had a model 40 winch installed and was used to snatch under 4,000 lb aircraft such as the XC-81-D, XCG-3, BT-13. Aside from Howard Hughes, pre-RFC, it was flown by snatch experts such as Capt. Lloyd Santmeyer, the late then Lt. E. Lee Jett and then Lt. Robert L. Cardenas (USAF BGen.Ret).
Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:32 am
gliderman1 wrote:Good!
This aircraft needs to be in a museum....#39-028
Ummm...not good. As we discussed in January Charles, Douglas B-23 39-028, c/n 2714, N58091 whereabouts, since 1980'ish, has remained unaccounted for...unless some sort of dyslexic brain fart has been clouding my perception for the past 6 years?
If she still exists in barn somewhere, I'd rather see her restored and touring in the air fitted with her All American
developed "snatch gear" as a "living museum" tribute to Adams, DuPont, the boys who went into battle, and
the warriors who returned home due to this unique technological innovation.
