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Ztex
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I can't find one with this description in the Tora database...

Anyone know this airplane? Photographed at Waco 1986.

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Description? I can't even find the airplane in the picture! :lol: All I see is some funky control tower.
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Could it be N65837 (Val EII-238) when owned by Tom Kelly in the same colors as he purchased
her from Rick Sharpe?

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I think that may be the one that Rick Sharpe & Jeff Hefner used to fly. :?
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It looks like Aichi D3A Val replica, NX67629?
http://www.air-and-space.com/20070520%20Chino/_BEL1312%20BT-15%20Tora%20Val%20NX67629%20left%20side%20taxiing%20l.jpg???

It can't be N65837 can it? Ztex has a photo of it on another site http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/165811.html

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Its N65837. Destroyed in a hangar fire in Conroe TX, June 1984. Tom Kelley owned it when that photo was taken in 1986 at CNW. I had taken a T-6G, N3166G, to that show that year.

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Thanks guys!

N3166G! Snoopy!
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Its N65837. Destroyed in a hangar fire in Conroe TX, June 1984. Tom Kelley owned it when that photo was taken in 1986 at CNW. I had taken a T-6G, N3166G, to that show that year.

Skymstr02,you meant of course, hangar fire in June 1994..(the hangar I worked in myhigh school days)

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Snoopy Was a Cool plane 8) it really stunk that she was lost like that :cry: Both her and Thunder Chicken Gone but not for gotten. :(

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airnutz wrote:
skymstr02 wrote:
Its N65837. Destroyed in a hangar fire in Conroe TX, June 1984. Tom Kelley owned it when that photo was taken in 1986 at CNW. I had taken a T-6G, N3166G, to that show that year.

Skymstr02,you meant of course, hangar fire in June 1994..(the hangar I worked in myhigh school days)


Thanks for the correction. I flat out fat fingered that one! I worked in that hangar from 1984 thru 1994.

Thanks for the photo of Snoopy Ztex!

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A shame too! :x :(

The replica vals seem to be the cursed ones from the 20th Century Fox production. I dont think as many zeros or kates have been lost over the years. And wasnt a replica zero lost in this fire too?

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Its N65837. Destroyed in a hangar fire in Conroe TX, June 1984. Tom Kelley owned it when that photo was taken in 1986 at CNW. I had taken a T-6G, N3166G, to that show that year.

Skymstr02,you meant of course, hangar fire in June 1994..(the hangar I worked in myhigh school days)


Thanks for the correction. I flat out fat fingered that one! I worked in that hangar from 1984 thru 1994.

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And wasnt a replica zero lost in this fire too?

Yes, Zero AI-116/AI-128, N2048 was lost.

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So...I'm guessing this is the one that was lost.

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