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I'm looking for T-28 photos when kept in storage at MASDC, circa 1960s and/or 1970s. I've looked through the WIX "Monthan Memories circa 1968" thread, but found only one photo with a '28 on it.
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Thank you.

Phil Chinnery published at least two books on the MASDC boneyard. I'm fairly certain that there is one photo of T-28's. I have those books packed in a box. I will try to verify the existance of the photos.

Cubs, thank you very much. I've checked most possible sites at the Internet, including those related to MASDC/AMARC without any luck, so far.

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Philip Chinnery's photo books on the Boneyard "Desert Boneyard" and "Desert Airforce" have some great photos (Desert Boneyard is the best), but unfortunately as far as the T-28 is concerned I only saw a couple of photos of partially complete hulks of the T-28 in the second book "Desert Airforce." The photos are about 2/3 of the way through the book (unfortunately the pages are not numbered).

I forgot about Philip Chinnery's 3rd MASDC/Boneyard book that came out in 1995, "50 Years of the Desert Boneyard." This is a larger format book than the first 2 and fortunately has numbered pages. On Page 105 there is a photo of two former Navy T-28's (T-28B's I presume) in Army markings. The two T-28's shown were apparently in the "Western International yard" just outside of AMARC and Davis-Monthan AFB.

jwc50: Thanks, I guess I'll buy the Chinnery book published in 1995. I was able to find some photos on the T-28.com website, but I'm really looking after some category 3000 Trojans at MASDC.

Thank you guys.

Here are two from the collection of the Pima Air & Space Museum


t-28 masdc0002 by planecurator, on Flickr


t-28 masdc0001 by planecurator, on Flickr

They aren't very good images but they are the only ones we have showing T-28s.

James

THose are neat. THey're A models with the high profile canopies and the two bladed Aeroproducts prop. Looks like B-47's and B-36's in the distance. Also, in the photo that has the T-Birds sitting in a row across from the T-28's; are some of those F-80's?
JUst guessing, maybe those T-28A's and T-Birds were put together in some lend lease deals to foreign countries?
Someone else can clarify , but the A-model T-28s were gone by 1962 or 65, I think.

marine air:
In July 1959, 149 T-28A airframes were shipped from USA depots to the French Armée de l'Air and converted later to Fennec (T-28S) by Sud Aviation, 25 of which were purchased by Morocco in 1964-65. But T-28s were in high demand during the 1960s in several countries, specially in Latin America and South East Asia.
Just to name one, the Honduran air force acquired from 1967 thru 1980 a total of 12 Map supplied T-28A, B & Ds, plus 2 T-28S Fennec purchased from Morocco. During the ferry flight from Morocco to Honduras, six Fennecs were impounded by US Customs at the Ft. Lauderdale airport, in late 1978.
I am aware some T-28s were still mothballed at Davis-Monthan by the mid-1980s.
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Hi Res http://www.flickr.com/photos/planecurat ... otostream/

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My father and his friends bought a T-6 and a T-28 from DM in 1958. There were a ton of Invaders and a dozen or so P-63's for sale there as well.
Chris...

For what its worth, surplus T-28As were fairly common in the late 50s.


If you watch the old series Whirlybirds, which was filmed in Southern California (at the now gone San Fernando airport) , there is a civil T-28 parked there.
In those pre-warbird days, I wonder what a civil owner would do with such a beast?

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