A request for some Tractors and Tugs for towing ...

[Mark Allen M]

Neat stuff that gets overlooked in many a photo. Sources: SDASM archives, NMNA archives (no really that's where they came from )


An Ensign sits on a tractor possibly during construction at Naval Air Station (NAS) Miami, Florida, 2 November 1918


A tractor pulls a P2Y-1 flying boat along the seawall at Naval Air Station (NAS) Hampton Roads, Virginia c 1933


A B-25 being pulled by a tractor


Cletrac Aircraft Tug Tows a P-38 Lightning at Manila Docks c 1945


SBW-4E Helldiver of Bombing Squadron 74 VB-74 is towed along the flight deck of USS Midway CVB-41 during operations in the Atlantic c 1945


Avenger being towed by a tug on a carrier


TBMs with Torpedo Squadron Eighty-Seven (VT-87), pictured on the deck of the USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). Flight deck operations; Air Support Mission - Okinawa


SB2C-1C of Bombing Squadron Eight VB-8 USS Bunker Hill off Saipan c 1945


Personnel respot the deck on board Wasp (CV 18) c 1945


A tractor tows an SB2C Helldiver on the flight deck of the carrier Yorktown (CV 10)


Florida Blanca, Luzon Island, August 1945. Luzon


B-24 42-40072, piloted by Lt. Irby, of the 307th Bomb Group, 371st Bomb Squadron being towed by a Cletrac M-2


Cletrac M-2 High Speed Tractor towing a P-47 of the 9th AF in France c 1945


352nd Fighter Group tractor


A tractor tows an observation aircraft along a path through the ice in the Antarctic during Operation Highjump c 1947


A tractor tows an observation aircraft along a path through the ice in the Antarctic during Operation Highjump c 1947


Grumman F9F in Korea being towed from VMF-311


OV-10, onboard the USS Nassau


Sailors tow and A-7E Corsair II of Attack Squadron (VA) 195 to a position for loading onto the carrier Kitty Hawk (CV 63) at Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, California


Convair Model CV-48 Charger being towed

... and a few 'whatever' photos.


SB2C-3pictured with a crash truck on the flight line at St Louis MO after a nose over


Whatever works!


An SNJ-4 Texan assigned to Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point, North Carolina, pictured after a colliding with a truck while taxiing c 1954

[tom d. friedman]

enlighten me on the convair charger, never saw it before nor heard of it. looks like the ov -1 bronco

[maxum96]

enlighten me on the convair charger, never saw it before nor heard of it. looks like the ov -1 bronco

Ask and you shall receive


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_Model_48_Charger

[Randy Wilson]

Tom - if you have access to Putnam's General Dynamics Aircraft and their Predecessors by John Wegg, 1990, page 219 gives the short history of the single Model 48 Charger. If you need more info feel free to PM me. All the best.

Randy

[tractor_guy]

THANKS Mark! I noticed that most of the war time carrier based tugs are based on Ford tractors. I'm not sure what model exactly, but they are a neat version of the Ford farm tractor. If you have more please keep them coming. I hope to someday own a WW2 vintage aircraft tug to take to local fly-in's and such.

Joe

[Mark Allen M]

Tom take a look see here, FYI the OV-10 won.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarch ... 372173983/

[Matt Gunsch]

Let me guess, long range escort tug..

[Mark Allen M]

Here's a nice looking machine

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1943-CLARKTOR-6 ... 35e00b65ee

[Taigh Ramey]

Here are photos of our Cletrac thanks to WIX's own roger Cain.

That's my daughter Sydney driving with Robin and Ricky. We took it to Eagle Field and put some hay bales on a bomb trailer and did hay rides around historic old Eagle Field.

Isn't she beautiful!!





Gotta love the Cletrac. We have three project Cletracs that will be available for trade since this one is complete and a sweet runner.

We also have a Ford Moto Tug that is seen in Mark's photos on the carrier decks. Ours is Navy and will be a perfect tug for the Harpoon. Needs lots of work as most everything around here does but its stock and uncut in any way.

[Obergrafeter]

After looking at the Wikipedia pictures of the Model 48 I have one question..................who stole the wings?!!!

[Mark Allen M]

Joe you hear what Taigh has? ...

[wendovertom]

Taigh,

Shoot me a PM with the particulars on those project cletracs. . .

Tom P.

[tractor_guy]

Look what I found doing a quick search.......

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675 ... -of-bomber

Also found this....

http://www.wonderfulworldofimages.com/b ... useum.html

Joe

[Mark Allen M]

Nice Joe, good job


Personnel of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group ride a Cletrac past an F-5 Lightning.


tractor pulls a P-47 Thunderbolt across the grass. This aircraft was flown by the 78th Fighter Group who were based at Duxford between April 1943 and October 1945. 15 May 1943.


Cletrac tows a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30323) nicknamed "Miss Carry" of the 390th Bomb Group.


Cletrac, tows a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-9042) nicknamed "The Berlin Sleeper" of the 92nd Bomb Group down the runway


A Cletrac waits beside a P-47 Thunderbolt of the 406th Fighter Group in order to change the engine.

[ZRX61]

Howard Keck has a really nice restored David Brown tug at VNY. David Brown is the *DB* in Aston Martin DB9 etc...