F-86's under restoration to fly?

[MX304]

A large F-86 gathering at Thunder would be awesome. Maybe get some Mig 15s and do sort of a Korean Tora disply with them.

[Iclo]

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G-SABR, 48-0178 cn 151-43547, correctly listed as "FU-178 Golden Apple Operations UK, A model" by dfrat on the previous page.

sorry I have missed it

[JDK]

No problem! As you'd not specified which, I just joined the two bits up.

[ajanik]

We would like to do an F-86 gathering at THUNDER OVER MICHIGAN sometime in the future, but I'm not totally familiar with all the currently active flying F-86's, or all the ones that are under restoration to active flying condition.

Vintage Wings of Canada's Sabre would be intrested in attending a Sabre gathering in the future.

[Alan Brooks]

Charlie Gillespie and the CAF High Sierra Sqdn have the CAF F-86 under restoration at Reno Stead Airport.... webpage info is http://www.highsierrasquadron.com There are photos of both the N3N and the F-86 in a slide show format...... About 2-3 more years before this Sabre is ready to "Rattle" again........ this was a former flyer with Bill Law in Texas and was actually flying at Airsho' one year..... It later went north.... and now is out west..... Alan

We would like to do an F-86 gathering at THUNDER OVER MICHIGAN sometime in the future, but I'm not totally familiar with all the currently active flying F-86's, or all the ones that are under restoration to active flying condition.

Vintage Wings of Canada's Sabre would be intrested in attending a Sabre gathering in the future.

I see that in the 2011 schedule for Hawk One, that just as in 2010 the Hawk One Sabre is scheduled for one U.S. appearance (Tacoma, WA, July 3-4). In 2010 the one U.S. appearance was at Oshkosh. If Thunder Over Michigan does an F-86 gathering in 2012 (as part of a Korean War theme??) or in a another future year, hopefully Ypsilanti/Belleville, Michigan can be a U.S. appearance that year (it is near the Canadian border as are Tacoma and Oshkosh.

Another must in 2012 or other year for a Sabre gathering in Michigan would be "The Horsemen" team with 3 F-86 Sabres (The team is debuting a Sabre demo at 3 locations this year (Quonset, RI, Houston, TX and Sacramento, CA).

[agent86]

I think I might have this photo stuff whipped,heres a couple of bad photos of an F-86 in Chino 2 weeks ago.




oops last one might not be an F-86

[RickH]

Love that P-26 ! 95 Pursuit Squadron Kicking Mules ! Later one of the Doolittle Squadrons as the 95 BS, 17th BG !

How about a North American jet show ? Maybe someone can pry a Viggie loose from the Navy !

[jaldo]

There are about 7 F-86E/F and 1 F-86K in Honduras for sale by the air force.They last flew around the 80's,and the big talk it's that a particular group have plans to restore one of them to flying condition in the future.


Meanwhile,work has been going on in an attempt to restore a Super Mystere B2 to flying condition.Here's a recent photo of the aircraft in mention:

[cadet77]

Here is a link to an early post I made:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19927

It will be good to see the Colorado paint scheme when done. The inlet may have been polished.

cadet77

There are about 7 F-86E/F and 1 F-86K in Honduras for sale by the air force.They last flew around the 80's,and the big talk it's that a particular group have plans to restore one of them to flying condition in the future.

Thanks for sharing the photos and the information on the planned restoration. I love hearing that another group is planning on restoring a Sabre to flying status and I look forward to hearing more about this in the future.

Here is a link to an early post I made:

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... =3&t=19927

It will be good to see the Colorado paint scheme when done. The inlet may have been polished.

cadet77

Thanks for sharing the link from your earlier post. I love the "Minute Men" F-86 Sabre paint scheme, and I can't wait to see the restoration when it's finished. That will be a fantastic Sabre to see on the air show circuit.

[agent86]

Ya gotta love the F-86. the prettiest 1st generation jet fighter. North american aviation at its finest.Why doesnt North American exist anymore? seems like something is wrong with that.

[Kyleb]

Ya gotta love the F-86. the prettiest 1st generation jet fighter. North american aviation at its finest.Why doesnt North American exist anymore? seems like something is wrong with that.

Thread drift, but I would love to see a geneology tree of the aviation industry showing who merged, who folded, etc. A brief mental inventory says almost much everyone in the military/commercial business has distilled down to Lockmart, Boeing, and Grumman.

[Old SAR pilot]

Thread drift, but I would love to see a geneology tree of the aviation industry showing who merged, who folded, etc. A brief mental inventory says almost much everyone in the military/commercial business has distilled down to Lockmart, Boeing, and Grumman.

Don't forget Bell Textron, Sikorsky, Raytheon/Beechcraft, and Gulfstream.