Glenview NAS Stearmans - request

[mlenoch]

Hello again,
I need some photos of Glenview Stearmans. A friend is re-marking his Stearman as a Glenview bird.
He'd like to know the colors and markings that these birds wore.
Thx in advance - again!
VL

[jdvoss]

Here are a couple of potential sources for you:

Book: US Naval Air Stations of World War II, Vol 1 by Mel Shettle. There is a partial photo on pg. 82 of a couple of N2S's on the ramp and another photo of scads of N3N's. All with similar markings.
Book: Glenview NAS by Arcadia Publishing http://www.arcadiapublishing.com. I have not seen this book but it's worth pursuing...it's only about $ 20.00 or so.

JohnV

[Chris Brame]

Here are some bent Glenview Stearmans I posted a while back. If you like I can send all of them to you; but they're on my home computer and I can't get to it for a couple days:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6885&p=56726&hilit=dilberts#p56726

[jdvoss]

As far as the actual color of the USN N2S / N3N primary trainng planes I did find a reference in the book "Navy Air Colors, Vol 1 1911-1945 by T.E.Doll. On page 67 Doll comments that the Army-Navy Bulletin No. 157 (28 Sept 1943) combined all colors in usage by both services. The list of all colors and associated ID numbers are included in his book. The color that you are most probably interested in is: Orange Yellow ANA 614 (Non-specular).

Hope this is of some help.