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Question - Texas Locator

Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:51 pm

I was looking at the Locator and saw that in Lubbock, TX is lists Reese AFB (former) with a T-33. I know that a T-33 from Reese was put on a pole outside the Discovery Science Center on the south side of Lubbock.

Does anyone know what happend to the B-25 gate guard, T-28 and other planes that were near the enty gate?

Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:32 pm

The airplane on a pole at the Science Spectrum in Lubbock is a T-38

Image

The T-33 and B-25 at the former base are long gone...Dunno where to.

Z

Re: Question - Texas Locator

Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:03 pm

Connery wrote:Does anyone know what happend to the B-25 gate guard, T-28 and other planes that were near the enty gate?


I don't know about the T-33 but I think this the B-25 you are asking about.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b25regis ... 86880.html

WD 4 lists the T-28A as 49-1679

Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:08 pm

Yeah....thanks for catching my typo, lol :lol:

Ztex wrote:The airplane on a pole at the Science Spectrum in Lubbock is a T-38

Image

The T-33 and B-25 at the former base are long gone...Dunno where to.

Z

Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:33 pm

I helped with the restoration of the B-25 at Fredericksburg, the hardest thing for them to do is remove the concrete from inside the plane that the Air Farce had poured into it to keep it from blowing away in west Texas winds.

Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:23 pm

I'm going to Fredericksburg this weekend... I didn't know that was the Reese bird...Sure looks good on the carrier deck...too bad they can't ever get the danged engine to start... :wink:

I'll have to bring back a picture.

Z

B-25

Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:53 pm

Picture link:

http://www.nimitz-museum.org/images/top ... er_big.jpg

Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:11 am

Connery wrote:I was looking at the Locator and saw that in Lubbock, TX is lists Reese AFB (former) with a T-33. I know that a T-33 from Reese was put on a pole outside the Discovery Science Center on the south side of Lubbock.


Ztex wrote:The T-33 and B-25 at the former base are long gone.


Just to clarify, everyone agrees the T-33 was removed from Reese? Even though it was in the Google Earth/Maps image, those images can be 2 or 3 years old.

Ztex wrote:The airplane on a pole at the Science Spectrum in Lubbock is a T-38


Where was the T-33 moved to? Was it moved to the "Science Spectrum"?


I have uploaded the revised Lubbock entries including a new one for the Science Spectrum. You can find them in the Texas Locator at...

http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Locator.html#USA_TX

My Texas notes are sitting in the queue waiting for me to convert them to entries. I will eventually get to them. In the mean time, if anyone knows of a site in Texas (or anywhere else for that matter) and would like to submit an entry, go to...

http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/LocatorForm.html

It is the lat and long coordinates that is the most difficult piece of information to get, so if you can submit that with an entry you will be my personal hero!

Mike

Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:07 am

Mike, down in Del Rio at the front gate of Laughlin AFB there is a lineup of aircraft that have served at the base. They include T-33,T-28,T-38, U2C.

The U2s launched out of Laughlin to fly their missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:13 am

RickH wrote:Mike, down in Del Rio at the front gate of Laughlin AFB there is a lineup of aircraft that have served at the base. They include T-33,T-28,T-38, U2C.

The U2s launched out of Laughlin to fly their missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.


There is also a T-33 on a stick in front of the Civic Center.

Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:24 pm

RickH wrote:Mike, down in Del Rio at the front gate of Laughlin AFB there is a lineup of aircraft that have served at the base. They include T-33,T-28,T-38, U2C.


Found them. I have created a new entry. Site A is the line-up you indicated. There are also two more much further into the base.


King wrote:There is also a T-33 on a stick in front of the Civic Center.


Found it.

Both uploaded.

Mike

Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:19 pm

Mike,

I was out at Reese last January and there were no airplanes around the field at all...

Z

Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:56 pm

Bummer. At least the guys flying RC planes have plenty of runway to use now lol.

Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:23 am

The T-28 is now at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo in a mini-park.

Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:35 am

Old SAR pilot wrote:The T-28 is now at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo in a mini-park.


Do you know where exactly? All images are too old.

Mike
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