Warbirds to ID from Breckenridge Airshow

C170BDan · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:42 pm

Trying to find the N numbers or serial numbers for the aircraft below. Any help would be appreciated.

Classics from the Breckenridge airshow...

TBM

Goose - this airplane is two hangars away from mine and I still can't ID it!

F-86

Thanks in advance.

C170BDan · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:47 pm

OK... right after I posted I found a WIX post that included info on Goose 87732 that is N87U.

bombadier29 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:17 pm **Posts:** 272

Don't know the N number but the F-86 was from Bill Law's collection at Coleman. That might be Bob Schnieder's old TBM

C170BDan · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2013 5:55 pm

My Google searches for Coleman didn't produce much so that's why I am trying here. I was able to ID Coleman's A-26 but not this F-86. I have it in another paint scheme but still can't make out the N number.

Thanks.

Alan Brooks · **Posted:** Mon Jan 21, 2013 8:06 pm

Classics from the Breckenridge airshow...

TBM

N-7030C, when it was owned/flown by Bob "Snackbar" Schneider..... Later sold to Gary Applebaum, then to Gerry Yagen
at the Fighter Factory.......

F-86

Dan, the info on the F-86 might be this one......
N-number : N186SR
Aircraft Serial Number : 52-5116
Aircraft Manufacturer : NORTH AMERICAN
Model : F-86F
Engine Manufacturer : GE
Model : J47 SERIES
Aircraft Year : 1952
Owner Name : AMERICAN AIRPOWER HERITAGE FLYING MUSEUM INC
Owner Address : PO BOX 62000 MIDLAND, TX, 797112000
Type of Owner : Corporation
Registration Date : 06-Jan-2009
Airworthiness Certificate Type : Experimental
Approved Operations : Exhibition

Thanks in advance.[/quote]

b17engineer · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:21 pm

Alan,

I don't remember the CAF (AAHM) ever owning a F-86. There was (is)a T-33 and a Mig-17.

RICK

flyingsailor · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:32 pm

b17engineer wrote:

Alan,

I don't remember the CAF (AAHM) ever owning a F-86. There was (is)a T-33 and a Mig-17.

RICK

Rick the High Sierra Squadron in Reno is restoring this airplane.

Ztex · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 8:54 pm

Here's another shot of the F-86 from my stuff...I thought it was a Coleman bird as well? Is that prior to the CAF owning it?

hurk130 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:34 pm

Was that 86 from Bill Laws collection? I think I remember seeing it when I refueled there once. About 1997 or 98.

Taylor Stevenson · **Posted:** Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:49 pm

Goose used to be owned by Glenn Johnson. Great guy from Ft. Worth. Experienced my first water landing in that aircraft. I think I was around three...

bombadier29 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:17 pm **Posts:** 272

It was definately Bill Laws F-86 from Coleman. Ron Iberg was flying it. I can't remember the year but I think it was the same year the CAF P-38 crashed.

flyingsailor · **Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:59 am

Mike Henniger's history of the airframe agrees with much of what is posted above...

Constructed as a F-86F. Circa 1952
Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-5116.

Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Argentina with s/n C-119.

In August 1988 To Warbirds Unlimited / Rick E. Sharpe, Rosharon, TX with c/r N7006J.

In 1989 Imported from Argentina disassembled.

In May 1989 To Western Wings Aircraft Sales / Bill Woods, Oakland, OR.

In December 1991 - By 1997 To Coleman Warbird Museum, Coleman, TX with c/r N3145T.
Markings Applied: USAF, 25116, FU-116

On 6 April 1992 Certificate of airworthiness for NX186SR (F-86F, 52-5116) issued.

On 28 October 1998 - By 1999 To Kipnis Inc, Wilmington, DE.

On 16 July 1999 Assigned civil registration: N186SR

In March 2008 Offered for sale as a dismantled and stripped restoration project.

On 6 January 2009 To American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum Inc, Midland, TX with c/r N186SR.

Based at Commemorative Air Force - High Sierra Squadron, Reno Stead Airport, Reno, Nevada, United States.

b17engineer · **Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:34 am

My bad, I totally forgot about the High Sierra Squadron aircraft.

RICK

Lynn Allen · **Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:57 pm

All from "The Greatest Show on Earth" I do miss going every May.... :wink:

RobC · **Posted:** Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:26 pm

Lynn, were you there the year the P-63 and Cloud Dancer came " " this close to merging? Still gives me shivers. That is the only year I ever made it to Breckenridge. Had a truly great time and my first experience of true Texan hospitality. We were in my brother's Skipper, but they treated us like we had come in the -6.

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