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Here is some of what is in the storage facility at the museum.

GUH-1F
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Convair XP-81
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Corben Super Ace
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Dassault Mystere IVA
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Ercoupe 415 (YO-55)
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PT-26
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T-6 II
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Luscombe 8A
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HE-111 and in the background is the C-39
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Also there is a B-47, YF-4E, B-23, and the F-15 Streak Eagle.

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I'll be visiting the museum this Friday. I was hoping to see the Casa/Heinkel. I thought it had been on display in the Presidential/ Experimental hanger. Rats.

Any chance you can get me in to the storage area? :D :wink:

I remember seeing a couple of those planes in the restoration hangers a couple years back.

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Thanks for the pictures. I love seeing behind the scenes and storage are photo's. Amazing the things that go on behind the scenes. The Convair looks interesting.

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These pictures and the rest that he didn't post can be found on the museum's website.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/collec ... /index.asp

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Is it just the one XP-81? The inventory doc I downloaded a while back lists two of them.
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Brad wrote:
These pictures and the rest that he didn't post can be found on the museum's website.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/collec ... /index.asp
Interesting that the PT-26 has a Curtiss Reed prop.
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Why so many "civilian" airplanes in the storage facility? I don't recall there being military variants of some of those like the Corben or Luscombe. Are those donations to the Museum from Veterans or their estates or what? What does the Museum plan on doing with those planes, since they obviously don't fit within the theme of the Museum?
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Civilian stuff must be trade bait!

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Sorry just got back in from checking out the Air Heritage F-15. I was looking for info on Streak Eagle and I found a link that I had never seen before of the storage facility. I would love to get people on there, but I am not even cleared to get myself in there. I have to be with another badged employee. This is on the active air base, so the restrictions are a bit tighter. As for the civilian aircraft, I am not sure of the plans, they were donated to the museum.

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Many "Civilian" A/C do have a military history (Not to be confused with the warbird/peacebird thread). Luscombs, Pipers, Aeronca's etc were used by the military for various reasons throughout history. Not neccessarilly purchased BY the military. Some were confiscated or were one off attempts at contracts that never came about.

The civilian A/C are also probably trade bait too.
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These pictures and the rest that he didn't post can be found on the museum's website.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/collec ... /index.asp
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So these pictures were posted without adequate attribution?? Shame!!!

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I never claimed to take them. I just found them myself today. I as was looking for info on the F-15 and found these. As I said, I don't have authority to get myself into there either.

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If you post them without attribution you are claiming that they are your own. Same as if you use someone else's words without citation to source. In professional lines of work, plagiarism can destroy a reputation and career.

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I did not save the link, just the pics for my files. I had never sen this part of the site, and to be honest tried to find it again and could not. I was in a hurry, but thought I would post the pics I found. Lesson learned, won't happen again. Trust me.

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That Curtiss-Reed on the PT-26 is illegal I believe. The only time you can use a C-R is on a Ranger-powered Widgeon. I helped a guy sell one that was on his Fairchild 24 and it was illegal...hence the reason we had a hard time selling such a short C-R.

Looking through my father's logs he had time in a C-39 at Patterson Field in late 1941 and early 1942 before shipping overseas.

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