Scanned slides from Kissimiee 1997

Cking · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:40 am

Four scanner slides from Kissimee in 1997. Three TBM’s. One flying, one under restoration and un known . the fourth slide is an un known P51.

now looking a lot better

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/avengerr ... 91733.html

Any news on this one?

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/avengerr ... 4172a.html

Can’t get a reg of this one

Just in front of the Colling’s B-24
I went to the Flying tigers museum three times. The last time I went weeks two weeks before the Hurricane blew it down. This year I went to Galveston two weeks before………….
I’ll let you all know where I’m going next year!

Rgds Cking

MKD1966 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:52 am

I believe that mustang is N7551T ex- FAD 1920 that was restored for Selby Burch and then was bought by Bob Jepson who had it painted as "He!!-er Bust" now owned by John Sessions...

AirJimL2 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:31 am

TBMs two and three are both owned by WIXers. The second one is with Helldivers. The third one is BuNo. 91436 under restoration with Charlie Cartledge in Ohio. See here:

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/avengerr ... 91436.html

Since there are no photos of it on the registry, here are two. They are a few years old...it is now painted.

Jim

DanteC · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:38 pm

I vaguely remember being there about '89 or '90. I was only 8 or 9, but I do remember Colling's B-24 sitting outside. It seemed like there were several TBM's sitting together outside, all sprayers or tankers. Also, seemed like there were a bunch of A-4's sitting together as well.

Does that sound right to anyone?

Dante

John Dupre · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:05 pm

N4272A was still there in 2006 when I looked in on Reilly's operation. I probably have a photo somewhere.

Ryan Keough · **Posted:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:11 pm

Are you sure this was 1997? The Collings TBM was in New England by then - as it spent the last years of restoration at Nate Mayo's shop in Harvard, MA. I would think it was 1987-88-or 89.

That photo does fill a niche in the history of the plane. I've seen the shots of it in Mesa and in MA, but nothing right after it's "attempted" ferry flight which ended with it bellying into a beanfield after an engine failure. This shot was shortly after it was trucked back I figure.

valdez25 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:52 am

The B-25 behind the Mustang is Tri-State Warbird Museum's "Axis Nightmare".

Cking · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:09 am

Thanks for the info team!
It's good to know that they are all being looked after and that two of them are in the "Family"!
I did search through the forum of the reg's and found some pictures of N9569Z and N4172A in their haydays. The pictures made me want to take up model making again!

Rgds Cking

JDK · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:21 am

Cking wrote:

I went to the Flying tigers museum three times. The last time I went weeks two weeks before the Hurricane blew it down. This year I went to Galveston two weeks before………….
I’ll let you all know where I’m going next year!

I've just alerted border patrol - you aren't coming down under!

Swiss Mustangs · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:31 am

Cking wrote:

Rgds Cking

It's an ex-FAD (Dominican) F-51 - former Swedish AF - will have to check files to 'nail' the ID

Martin

T J Johansen · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:03 am

Swiss Mustangs wrote:

Cking wrote:

Rgds Cking

It's an ex-FAD (Dominican) F-51 - former Swedish AF - will have to check files to 'nail' the ID

Martin

It is (then) Selby Burch ex- FAD 1920 as MKD1966 says.

T J

Cking · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:51 am

Ryan Keough wrote:

Are you sure this was 1997? The Collings TBM was in New England by then - as it spent the last years of restoration at Nate Mayo's shop in Harvard, MA. I would think it was 1987-88-or 89.

That photo does fill a niche in the history of the plane. I've seen the shots of it in Mesa and in MA, but nothing right after it's "attempted" ferry flight which ended with it bellying into a beanfield after an engine failure. This shot was shortly after it was trucked back I figure.

You know there are these strange marks on the back of the slides in the shape of "89" Have you any idear what they mean????? :oops:

Sorry, to eager to show the pictures. Will try harder next time!

Rgds Cking

John Dupre · **Posted:** Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:19 am

Ryan Keough wrote:

Are you sure this was 1997? The Collings TBM was in New England by then - as it spent the last years of restoration at Nate Mayo's shop in Harvard, MA. I would think it was 1987-88-or 89.

That photo does fill a niche in the history of the plane. I've seen the shots of it in Mesa and in MA, but nothing right after it's "attempted" ferry flight which ended with it bellying into a beanfield after an engine failure. This shot was shortly after it was trucked back I figure.

I helped out a lot on the restoration of the Collings TBM. I got involved about 1991 after getting a ride in the B-17, 909. The airplane was at Mayo's in MA then. Very little if any restoration was done in Kissimmee. I helped with the move from Mayo's shop to Fitchburg, MA (about 15 or 20 miles by road!) and that was about 1996. I always thought that it never seemed to get the attention it deserved as a restoration. Everything in it works including the turret. I helped them find some rubber boots for control rod feedthroughs at the firewall. Found them in Hemmings, they were still the original GM part number.

John Dupre'

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