F6F-5 Planes of Fame RIP

[JohnH]

To me this was just yesterday - a little over three years ago and I can't believe people don't know about it. You'd think it was a crash from 1970 . This place man!!!!!!!

[Mark Nankivil]

Here's three photos of the Hellcat at Columbia, Missouri in May of 2003.

Enjoy the Day!

[k5083]

That east coast fighter tour was such a great thing that POF did for a few years there. Such a shame that it ended so sadly.

August

[jbell]

[quote="Mark Nankivil"]Here's three photos of the Hellcat at Columbia, Missouri in May of 2003.

Hi Mark, I was there too, with my late brother-in-law. Cloudy and cool, May 4th. Great show! Still have my POF fighter tour t-shirt. "Glacier Girls" first air show. Blue skys always Mr. Vance .....John

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[RareBear]

I have a video of Steve Hinton flying the Hellcat. I take it out every once in a while and see it again.

Walt

..... Big loss for me, Pilot & airplane, I dated Art's niece as well, I loved that Hellcat, still do, and his niece ...

Don't even think about bad mouthing Art Vance, he was a good man and a great pilot, I really didn't know him, but I knew he was a good one .... It's a shame he and the POF Hellcat are not here anymore. It's heartbreaking to me, but life goes on .... give em a break, he did what hew did, it's too bad ...

[JohnH]

Great words Hellcat. Yeah it's wierd some friends and I knew Art, but we never talk about this accident and I'm fine with that. I think everybody knows what happened and why. We've never discussed it since that weekend.