Great news! A-20 Havoc in Geneseo museum

Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:21 pm

Hi all,

I just found out some fantastic news! An A-20 Havoc has been shipped to the 1941HAG museum to finish restoration to flying conditon! I am not sure where it came from but just think there is a A-20 restoration going on in Geneseo!!

Now I think I got a good excuse to visit the museum once more this year.

Hope you all are happy as much as I am.

Cheers,
Nathan

P.S. here is a link for further info:
http://members3.boardhost.com/1941AirMu ... 67187.html

Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:28 pm

Oooh oooh oooh..... that's great news!!!

Apparently the A-20 was a wonderful plane to fly. Maybe I'll get my chance someday!

Cheers,

David

Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:31 pm

I'm thinking it's the one that's been at Air Heritage, Inc in PA. The first news entry on this page of the AHI site says that the aircraft is no longer at Air Heritage.

I'm rather excited about this... perhaps this is the motivation I need to take an hour's drive out and see the HAG Museum... been meaning to get there for some time, but it just never happens.

Fade to Black...

Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:20 pm

About 1 year ago someone said it would be moving there (I'll keep that person nameless mostly because I might get him confused with the other couple of guys that are involved in the same museum that frequent here.

But that is great news, lets hope the B-25 and A-26 follow soon. I wonder if that would be too many aircraft to keep up and flying for a small grass roots museum? Which reminds me I need to send in my member ship dues first thing Tuesday. I think I'll join Kelly also.

Tim

Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:21 pm

Awsome! I've always loved the Havoc, and was mildly bummed to hear that the Lone Star bird was headed Down Under. Maybe I'll get to see an A-20 in the air someday after all.

SN

Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:51 am

Here is history of A-20: http://www.airheritage.org/a20.html

Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:39 pm

Wow! What a shocker :roll:

Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:01 am

Steve Nelson wrote:Awsome! I've always loved the Havoc, and was mildly bummed to hear that the Lone Star bird was headed Down Under. Maybe I'll get to see an A-20 in the air someday after all.

Have any of Tallichet's free restorations ever been completed and flown or do they just get shuffled around when the projects lose momentum?

Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:35 am

bdk wrote:
Steve Nelson wrote:Awsome! I've always loved the Havoc, and was mildly bummed to hear that the Lone Star bird was headed Down Under. Maybe I'll get to see an A-20 in the air someday after all.
Have any of Tallichet's free restorations ever been completed and flown or do they just get shuffled around when the projects lose momentum?

LOL

Eric

Tue Sep 04, 2007 10:12 am

I thought 1941 HAG's main focus was to get the C-119 back in shape?

Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:15 pm

I believe the HAG is supposed to putting an interior in the C-119 and polishing it up a little. They are replacing the engines on the C-47 and have just acquired a Staggerwing and C-45 in the last year.

I think the idea is to have the A-20 in a new location wher Mr. T can have more control over it and hire people to finish the restoration, not necessarily using HAG volunteers.

The LSFM A-20 will fly here in the US first before being shipped to AUS.

Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:22 pm

Air Heritage has been a revolving door for David T's projects for many years. Most of the heavy lifting of Butch Schoeder's P-47 was done at AH. Lysander, Reliant, P-39s, B-26 have all passed through the hangar at Beaver County Airport. The crash of Nine-0-Nine was the imputus for the creation of AH and countless volunteer hours were spent on all of these aircraft. David financed the building of the AH hangar and was paid back many times with sweat equity.

Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:30 pm

Toddb wrote:I thought 1941 HAG's main focus was to get the C-119 back in shape?

We plan on doing a cleaning of the exterior on the C-119 first. The A-20 project will not interfere with this project since a seperate group is going to work on the C-119. Including myself.

Why am I hinting negativity towards this?

HTH,
Nathan

Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:34 pm

airknocker wrote:Air Heritage has been a revolving door for David T's projects for many years. Most of the heavy lifting of Butch Schoeder's P-47 was done at AH. Lysander, Reliant, P-39s, B-26 have all passed through the hangar at Beaver County Airport. The crash of Nine-0-Nine was the imputus for the creation of AH and countless volunteer hours were spent on all of these aircraft. David financed the building of the AH hangar and was paid back many times with sweat equity.

I worked there for several years. There are many dedicated people that still work there.