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kenlyco
 Post subject: WHO'S F-4U PIC'S
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Anyone from WIX?
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Man those birds had been derelict for a while when those were taken. What or where is 'Olathe'? They also are both marked with a big 'K'. Mean anything to anyone. (this is WIX-someone out there knows.)

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Maybe Bob Bean at Blythe Calif?
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I believe Rich is correct. BTW Olathe is in Kansas. Large Navy training and reserve base was located there.

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According to registry...

BuNo 81415 displayed in Korea

BuNo 97286 with Kermit Weeks

Always loved the few Gull Grey/White Corsairs

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Rich is correct, pics taken at Blythe, CA. when owned by Bob Bean.

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Olathe is my hometown - suburb of Kansas City - 20 miles south of downtown KC. The Olathe Navel Air Station (actually located in Gardner, KS) opened, I think, in 1942, and closed in 1970. Trained pilots during world war two then was a reserve unit base, or something like that. It trained the likes of John Glen and Bob Barker. There was a restored F4U that was a Korean War vet that at one time was based at ONS flying the war bird circuit a few years back. It crashed and was destroyed. Don't know if it was one of these pics you have.
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Saw 4 or 5 F4Us at Blythe in 1970, wish I had had a camera then

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gsheff wrote:
There was a restored F4U that was a Korean War vet that at one time was based at ONS flying the war bird circuit a few years back. It crashed and was destroyed. Don't know if it was one of these pics you have.


If I recall, Joe Tobul's F4U-4 was a Korean War vet, later at NAS Olathe. If that's the case, neither pictured Corsair are his.

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kenlyco wrote:
Anyone from WIX?
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97286 is the Corsair I used to crew some for the late Merle Gustafson, "Angle Of Okinawa". The airplane is now owned by Kermit Weeks. IIRC the airplane did serve in Korea onboard CV-21 USS Boxer. I do not remember
which squadron.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/corsairr ... 97286.html

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