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Mon Mar 19, 2012 9:13 pm
Contra Aircraft Folks:'
Seek info & photos on the Contra fleet c. 1980s. You can see several of them at the aguacate BASE in northern Honduras at the link below. Missing fm this picture are the notorious C-123Ks. Photo via AEC.
Any info or picture on the poss Lockheed Ventura (PV-1) in the green circle will be appreciated.
Tks in advance
http://www.pista01.com/index.php?option ... id=914#929
Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:38 pm
The Warbirds Directory 2008 has details of a former PV-1 that might be this aircraft. Abbreviated information is;
PV-1 Ventura c/n 5854 to RAF, to South African Air Force, shipped to Howard Aero, San Antonio in 1960, rebuilt as a Howard 500, six different N numbers. Last was N65PC, and last seen Ft Lauderdale FL in April 1980 then vanished.
Believed to be the camouflaged Howard 500 operated in Nicaragua by CIA/Contras c84)
FITD
Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:59 am
FITD:
Good day!
Tks for the info & data.
That may be the one sample that poss went S. of the border.
There was another sample found in a hangar, somewhere in the midwest being re-built by a couple of PV-1 Folks. It was advertised here on Wix sometime ago.Does anyone know what happened to that restoration project??
Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:09 pm
PV1/Howard 500 Folks:
Could this be the same aircraft at Sedona, AZ c. Jan 2011?? Via U-tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao4FyD2Lido
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