Bartlesville OK - any warbirds?

[Rauhbatz]

Going there next week on business...just curious if there was anything interesting around there...

[RickH]

Oil!

[Cindy]

I haven't been there for 20 years, but the only plane of interest at the time was a Wiley Post aircraft. It (was) a great little town - very Norman Rockwell back then.

[LadyO2Pilot]

They used to have the Natl Bi-Plane Fly In but I believe last year was the finale. But I did find this in mid Sept: http://www.tulsaflyin.com/

You'll be a little early next week

I know nothing else about the area....except agree with Rick's comment.........................Oil

[67N20]

Just to save Mike some time:

http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Locator.php#TheResults

For some reason I can't the "results" of the Aerial Visual Locator to copy and paste.

A4 here: http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/LocationDos ... erial=4352

[Kyleb]

Don't know about warbirds, but there is a diner in downtown called Murphy's, if I recall. It had a specialty that was a gravy covered hamburger. Really good, but I wouldn't make 'em a staple of my diet.

There is also the art-deco highrise (the Phillips HQ) that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I think they give tours if you are into that kind of thing.

Otherwise, a fairly normal town in middle America.

I went to the last Biplane fly-in. I didn't come away with the impression that there are a lot of warbirds based there.

[tulsaboy]

Rauhbatz,

A summation of the previous information... (my family has lived there since the 1880's!)

No major warbirds stationed there. The airport is historically significant as it was/is the home of Phillips 66 corporate aviation, which was run by Billy Parker (a legendary early Oklahoma aviator). They sponsored Art Goebel and his victory in the Dole Race to Hawaii, with him flying the TravelAir "Woolaroc" (named after Frank Phillips' local ranch.) The original Woolaroc is out at the ranch, in the museum there (which is way cool if you are into western art/artifacts). The airport was also the site of Wiley Post's high-altitude research flights. He took off from that airport in the Winnie Mae in his high-altitude suit, the predecessor of modern space suits. The hangars there do have a few older aircraft in them, but you'd have to go sniff it out to see what they still have. There is a little hangar museum there that has a couple of biplanes, and it might be open.

On the way to Woolaroc Ranch, and just south of the airport, is Murphy's. Home of the hot hamburger. Great, original 1950's era fast food joint, and a great place to fill up. Just don't insult me and visit the Sonic that is literally next door.

The A4 is nicely displayed for a pole-mounted aircraft, and is very well maintained. It's behind Washington Park shopping mall, which is on the east side of highway 75 as you come through Bartlesville.

There are a bunch of warbirds in Tulsa, 45 minutes south. The Tulsa Air and Space Museum has an F-14 and the only intact Spartan NP-1 WWII trainer. Just down the road from the museum is the Air National Guard, which has pole mounted F-16, F-100, F-4 and F-86 aircraft that are getting a little tired. Out at the Jones-Riverside Airport, there is a pole mounted T-33. In the hangars there are at least one P-51, a bunch of T-6s, a bunch of Stearmans, at least one N3N, at least one BT-13, some Chipmunks and one of the only flyable Spartan C-3 biplanes (not strictly a warbird, but used in that manner by the Mexican Army in the 1930's).

Hope that helps. Give me a shout if you need help finding anything.

kevin

[gary1954]

Great Tour Guiding Kevin

[mrhenniger]

Just to save Mike some time:

http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Locator.php#TheResults

For some reason I can't the "results" of the Aerial Visual Locator to copy and paste.

A4 here: http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/LocationDos ... erial=4352

I know what you did wrong... you copied the URL out of the address bar. This won't get you what you need to paste here. From any Aerial Visuals page you can scroll down to the bottom of the page and look for the text to the right of the label "Forum Link". Paste that text here and you get...
Aerial Visuals Locator Search - Bartlesville
...but this search on the city name only gives two locations. So I went back to the Locator...
Aerial Visuals - Locator
...and entered "Bartlesville, OK" in the "Coordinates or Address" field. I changed the range to 50 miles. This does a geographical search centered around Bartlesville with a range out to 50 miles to get these results...
Aerial Visuals Locator Search - Around Bartlesville, OK
...which might be a bit more useful to you.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Mike

[tulsaboy]

Hey Mike-

FYI, you've got some results in Tulsa duplicated... you have the Spartan C-2, F-14, Ranger 2000 and NP-1 correctly at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum. The CAF squadron at Jones-Riverside Airport does NOT have a C-2, C-3, F-14 or Ranger 2000.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no JN-4 on display at Jones-Riverside.

kevin

[Rauhbatz]

Thanks all for the great tips...I sort of recollect the history with Wiley Post so all of this detail is most welcome. Gravy burger sounds interesting but it may cause the wait staff to put the defibs on me and yell "clear".

Rick: will see if they have any spare Jet A lying around for the F-4...