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WIX_Archive · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm **Posts:** 198

Originally posted by Mark Allen. Images restored 11-1-2018 - Scott WRG Editor

Trying to fulfill some of the requests I get when I have the time and also happy to try to see what I can do as well to come up with some groovy stuff. (while trying not to burn you guys out in the process) Gotta keep trying to feed those hungry WIXers :supz:

Here's a request for more wartime assembly and factory photos. I have a boatload of stuff, but I'll try to post the best quality photos I have. Please feel free to correct me if I post any wrong information. It happens from time to time :wink:

Part 1

Curtiss C-46A final assembly at the Buffalo Plant. C-46A-30-CU SN 41-24773 and 41-24767 are the nearest two aircraft (U.S. Air Force photo)

Curtiss' Buffalo Plant Final Assembly (C-46A-50-CU SN 42-96803). Note the adjacent P-40 assembly line. Middle aircraft is P-40N-30-CU SN 44-7441. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Curtiss C-46A engine with propeller and cowling installed. (U.S. Air Force photo)

B-25 bomber final assembly line at North American Aviation works, Inglewood, Calif. October 1942.

B-25 Engines

Vultee A-35 Nashville assembly line in August, 1942

Corsair assembly line at the Vought-Sikorsky plant in Stratford, CT - circa 1942

Corsair Production Line

Line workers pictured at work on a production line of SBD-2 and 3 aircraft at Douglas Aircraft Company's El Segundo Plant. 1941

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:03 pm

Mark Allen M wrote:

Corsair assembly line at the Vought-Sikorsky plant in Stratford, CT - circa 1942

Corsair Production Line

The first two images we're taken in Dallas after Vought moved to Texas in 1948. These look to be AU-1 Corsairs. The third shot was indeed taken at the Stratford plant here in CT.

WIX_Archive · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm **Posts:** 198

Part 2

F6F-5 Hellcat aircraft in the Overhaul and Repair (O&R) facility at NAS Pensacola, FL 1949

F6F-5 Hellcat aircraft in the Overhaul and Repair (O&R) facility at NAS Pensacola, FL 1947

The last Dauntless delivered by Douglas Aircraft Company, an SBD-6 version of the aircraft, pictured at the El Segundo Plant.

SBD-5s pictured on the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's El Segundo Plant.

SB2C assembly line

SB2C Helldiver Production - Plant 3A, 4 May 1943

Beech YC-43 assembly line, probably Model 17R c 1942

Forward fuselage sections of the B-29

B-29's on the production line at Martin's Omaha,Nebraska plant.

Boeing B-29-45-BW Superfortress, built at the Wichita plant.

Boeing B-29-40-BW Superfortress Boeing's Wichita plant. Most of these planes ended up flying with the 20th Air Force in the Pacific. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Vultee Vengeance production at Downey CA

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:07 pm

gr8 stuff Mark

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7802

Warbird Kid wrote:

These two shots we're taken in Dallas after Vought moved to Texas in 1948. These look to be AU-1 Corsairs. the third shot was indeed taken at the Stratford plant here in CT.

Thank ya my man!!! I knew one of you cowboys from Startford would get me right on those shots.
:supz:

AG pilot · **Joined:** Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:13 am **Posts:** 552

Keep them coming!! I see a BTD in the background of the last SBD. It looks like the prop on the SBD was installed with the blades indexed in coarse pitch, or was flown and then set to coarse. Kinda different looking.

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:18 pm

Mark Allen M wrote:

Warbird Kid wrote:

These two shots we're taken in Dallas after Vought moved to Texas in 1948. These look to be AU-1 Corsairs. the third shot was indeed taken at the Stratford plant here in CT.

Thank ya my man!!! I knew one of you cowboys from Startford would get me right on those shots.
:supz:

No problem mang. Startford?!?! :shock:

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7802

Warbird Kid wrote:

No problem mang. Startford?!?! :shock:

See!!! there ya go!!! ... As most of you know (or should know), good ole WIX has this kooky built-in spell-checker / bad word sensor deal going on. You really have to go back and check your spelling AFTER you post to see how many of your words get "Jacked" into something else. :evil:

I know it's Stratford. :wink:

And I'll post a patch more photos later. (got some good ones)
Believe it or not I actually have to go do some real work. :wink:

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:27 pm

Ive done that a MILLION times too. Great shots btw.

shrike · **Posted:** Mon Jan 27, 2014 3:18 pm

The Beech Staggerwing photo is of one of the first ten preproduction, fixed gear models, so dated 1932-3

WIX_Archive · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm **Posts:** 198

shrike wrote:

The Beech Staggerwing photo is of one of the first ten preproduction, fixed gear models, so dated 1932-3

Thanks, that was mean't to be a 32 not a 42.

A couple Willow Run shots.

Willow Run B-24's

B-29 Wing assemblies

Beechcraft C-45B assembly plant. (U.S. Air Force photo)

P-82 assembly

ryguy135 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 18, 2013 11:41 am **Posts:** 67

My car is currently parked at the same spot as those Boeing Wichita B29s were in that photo

WIX_Archive · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm **Posts:** 198

ryguy135 wrote:

My car is currently parked at the same spot as those Boeing Wichita B29s were in that photo

Nice!!!

Guess I better pick on the "Stratford Guys" again :wink:

(so easy to do) Just wait till I post the Corsair shots

Here's a batch of photos of assembly work on kingfishers at the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, Connecticut Nov 1940, source Library of Congress archives

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7802

No one should have any more questions on how this goes together on a B-25 now :wink:

The tail assembly for a North American B-25 is lowered into place from an overhead crane on the final assembly floor.

WIX_Archive · **Joined:** Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:32 pm **Posts:** 198

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber final assembly plant. General view of the final assembly plant.

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