Current P-47 restorations
Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:43 pm
Other than the P-47's "Lil Demon" and "Dottie Mae", are there any other P-47 restorations taking place out there?
P-47
Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:39 pm
Pat, the CAF P-47N is still a work in progress....... Perhaps Doug Jeanes could provide a small update..... (hint, hint)..... Alan Brooks
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:42 pm
Don't think any work has started on Dottie Mae yet. Mike B. is finishing up
on Jack C.'s (not me -sorry
) 2nd P-51D.
on Jack C.'s (not me -sorry
) 2nd P-51D.
Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:47 pm
Rob Greinert has three combat veteran razorback P-47's under restoration in New Zealand.
West Pac have at least two P-47's under active restoration, perhaps more, as well.
There's also a a P-47 under restoration to static at Peterson Aerospace Museum in Colorado as well.
There is/was a P-47B under restoration/reconstruction in Bensenville, Illinois as well, though I haven't heard much about it in a long while.
Can't think of any others in addition to those already mentioned though, but that's quite a few!
Cheers,
Richard
West Pac have at least two P-47's under active restoration, perhaps more, as well.
There's also a a P-47 under restoration to static at Peterson Aerospace Museum in Colorado as well.
There is/was a P-47B under restoration/reconstruction in Bensenville, Illinois as well, though I haven't heard much about it in a long while.
Can't think of any others in addition to those already mentioned though, but that's quite a few!
Cheers,
Richard
Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:20 pm
Whist we would love to have 3 P-47 restorations going on here.Rob Greinert is located in Australia, not New Zealand. Cheers mate!
Damon
Damon
Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:35 pm
The P-47 is my favorite fighter, and am so glad to hear that some more of them are going to be restored.
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Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:27 pm
"There's also a a P-47 under restoration to static at Peterson Aerospace Museum in Colorado as well".
I think this one has been done for a couple years but I don't have a link
I think this one has been done for a couple years but I don't have a link
Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:50 pm
steve dickey wrote:"There's also a a P-47 under restoration to static at Peterson Aerospace Museum in Colorado as well".
I think this one has been done for a couple years but I don't have a link
The one at Peterson is indeed finished. Or as close to finished as can be. And it does look good!
Pima also has one, but I would not consider it to be an "active" restoration as it has been in storage for some time.
Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:57 pm
OFMC Fan wrote:Whist we would love to have 3 P-47 restorations going on here.Rob Greinert is located in Australia, not New Zealand. Cheers mate!
Damon
Ayyye! I meant to say Australia. Not sure what got into me!
Thanks for noting that!
Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:00 pm
Clifford Bossie wrote:steve dickey wrote:"There's also a a P-47 under restoration to static at Peterson Aerospace Museum in Colorado as well".
I think this one has been done for a couple years but I don't have a link
The one at Peterson is indeed finished. Or as close to finished as can be. And it does look good!
Pima also has one, but I would not consider it to be an "active" restoration as it has been in storage for some time.
Nice to see the one at Peterson is finished... those Puerto Rican Air National Guard markings always make me chuckle though... PRANG... not exactly the word I'd want written on my aircraft!
Cheers,
Richard
Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:09 pm
Yeah I think everyone gets a chuckle out of "PR-ANG". I believe they were the last Air Guard unit to operate the Jug. The one at Peterson is a good time capsule. It was placed on a pole about 1954 and was unrestored at the time, so it was pretty original.
Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:18 pm
The one in Colorado looks like an "N".
Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:22 pm
A2C wrote:The one in Colorado looks like an "N".
It is a P-47N. I had watched the restoraion on the Peterson website for some time and a few years ago I got to see it in person and sit in the cockpit.
Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:52 pm
I thought that I'd heard that Neal Melton (a warbird God in my estimation for what he's done along with John Schoffner) has a second P-47 under restoration. Is that true, and if so, was it covered in the mentioned projects?
Rich
PS - Here's a shot my uncle took when in the Navy.
Rich
PS - Here's a shot my uncle took when in the Navy.
Mon Mar 16, 2009 11:03 pm
There are couple that aren't active restorations that should be...Kermit has one in a shipping container and Walter Soplata has an "N" model fuselage. There is also a partial fuselage in the Aviation Museum in Prague. Again these are "should be" projects.
jim
jim