Whose FJ-4B?

Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:11 pm

Hello,

I am hoping somebody on this forum can assist with identifying this FJ-4B that was seen last month in the Navy Heritage Flight at the Reno Air Races. I am particularly interested in who owns and flies it. I did not see it listed in the registry.

http://rwphotos.com/ipw-web/gallery/04RenoNCARairshow/AV10_65_01

Thanks,

Rick Pisio

Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:20 pm

I'm assuming it's this one...N400FS (Bu 143575), the only FJ-4B listed as airworthy and with an FAA registry:

http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/NNumSQL ... rtxt=400FS

Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:11 pm

I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE X-FLIGHT SYSTEMS BIRD?!?

Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:37 pm

Thanks Randy,

Those numbers match up if I zoom in close on the tail.

Rick

Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:58 pm

As your caption says - Dr. Rich Sugden owns the plane - he also owns a number of military a/c - a Grumman Albatross, T-28, and a couple T-2 Buckeyes. They are based out of Idaho - Teton Aviation if I remember right.

The FJ-4B was a featured plane in Air and Space a few issues back - Tyson Rininger (SP??) took some incredible photos of it with a F/A-18.

Tom P
www.wendoverairbase.com

Wed Oct 13, 2004 3:28 am

Mr Pisio your covershot ... for the Fury is just super! It is,... so perfect an image for the time it represents. All of those yellowed, faded, or B/W only
fotos that we were raised on, are transformed into to a crisp coool desert
morning of an event!

A 23yr-old "buck" pilot, is faced with his first solo
of the FJ-4...how beautiful she is......endlesssss...p.o.s.sssibilities.....
..breathlesssssssss......!!!!!!!!!!

sigh....