F-86H 53-1528 at Lunken Airport?

[gale_dono]

Hello all, I've been lurking WIX for a couple months now, and I finally fixed the registration thinger, so I'm posting the most prominent question on my mind, namely, the background of a certain F-86H SabreHog.

The fact that I only found out about this aircraft last year is a little annoying, given that I was born in Cincy, and while I only lived there until the third grade, we've been visiting relatives there fairly frequently for most of my life. For that matter, Lunken Airport is literally on the way to my aunt and uncle's house! But enough chatter, here's what I've determined:

North American Aviation F-86H-10-NH (NA-203) s/n 53-1528 (c/n 203-300)
-Built at NAA's Columbus, Ohio plant (where I live now, ironically)
-last Hog Sabre built
-Been in Cincinnati since at least 1960
-May at one point have been on a playground/recreation area
-Been stored outside at Lunken since the 2000's
-Marked as "D.C. AIR GUARD"

I called Lunken itself the other day to get more, and found out that the Aircraft is in a state of limbo, because it's currently owned by the USAF. There was a group at Lunken that wanted to restore it, but the USAF wanted a higher insurance rate than they could afford, so it's been sitting out since then. Since I'm planning on returning to school at Northern Kentucky University in January, I'm definitely planning on visiting and taking pictures of it (I'm a scale modeller as well) so I'll post those if they ever materialize. Below are all the online references specific to the aircraft I've been able to find:

http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/database/aircraft/getimage.htm?id=3700
http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/database/aircraft/getimage.htm?id=8310
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1087756/
http://www.warbirdsandairshows.com/ohioguards.htm

-Scroll down to "C's" for the last one.

If anyone has any other info on this aircraft, please, post it here, I'm quite interested in its history.

[Ztex]

found out that the Aircraft is in a state of limbo, because it's currently owned by the USAF. There was a group at Lunken that wanted to restore it, but the USAF wanted a higher insurance rate than they could afford, so it's been sitting out since then.

Aw come on!

Sorry about that, this topic is rather warm around here right now...



Anyway...Welcome to the WIX Board!

The Last Sabre! I have seen pictures of it sitting outside without a canopy for years...I'm glad someone took an interest in it...To bad the Air Force put such restrictions on it that those folks went away...

[AirJimL2]

The Sabre was indeed once a play thing in the park at the end of Runway 3 at Lunken. It was really beat up over the years. Attached is a photo of it either in the late 90s, or early 00s, not long after it was removed from the park and parked at the airport. From the links you posted, it looks like some work has been done since.

Jim

[Trey Carroll]

I've got pics from this April, I'll get them to ya soon just so you can have something sorta recent.

Hello all, I've been lurking WIX for a couple months now, and I finally fixed the registration thinger, so I'm posting the most prominent question on my mind, namely, the background of a certain F-86H SabreHog.

North American Aviation F-86H-10-NH (NA-203) s/n 53-1528 (c/n 203-300)
-Built at NAA's Columbus, Ohio plant (where I live now, ironically)
-last Hog Sabre built
-Been in Cincinnati since at least 1960
-May at one point have been on a playground/recreation area
-Been stored outside at Lunken since the 2000's
-Marked as "D.C. AIR GUARD"

Very interesting if that was the last F-86H built. I know the DC Air Guard was an early ANG user of the "H" that gave them up by the early 60s for F-100C Super Sabres. Interesting that perhaps the last one built left service that early, while several Air Guard units flew F-86H's for many more years including Maryland and New York into at least 1970.

I would be fantastic if a Hog could be restored to flyable some day.

[viking73]

would be fantastic if a Hog could be restored to flyable some day.

Well what about F-86H 53-1250? According to page 42 of Earl Berlin's excellent book (Air Force Legends no. 212) this a/c was put on the civil register as N31250. To quote the book "It was registered with Aeroplace Services, Inc., Midlothian, TX. It has since been registered to Mr. Raub Harry, Waxahachie, TX and was recently listed with Courtesy Aircraft Sales before being listed as sold".

Hmmmm. Anyone know where this a/c is now and if it is indeed flyable? Pictures?

[Ztex]

I heard about this airplane 20 years ago but never laid eyes on it when it was supposedly in Waxahachie/Midlothian. Courtesy has it listed as sold in 2003.

There is this report on the Key Publishing Forum...
"I discovered this bird the other day. It is on a hobby farm south of Minneapolis, Mn. several miles from the airport.."

There is a pic here...
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/jetregistry/f86registry/f86-531250.html


And this report http://f-86.tripod.com/usa.html look at the Minnesota section...there is a picture of it in an outside pavilion in Lakeville, MN
http://www.ci.lakeville.mn.us/parks-recreation/veterans-memorial.html

Not a flyer...

There is a pic here...

And this report Not a flyer...

That's a sharp looking finish with the Green markings and the TAC emblem on the tail. But does anyone know if that's an authentic finish or not??

It is a shame that it had to end up as a memorial instead of a flyer....