Chicago Warbirds?

warbirdguy · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:48 am

No, the B-17 and the Indiana Aviation Museum are separate groups. The B-17 is in Marengo, IL while the Indiana Aviation Museum is in Valparaiso, IN.

HotRodJosh · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:50 am

Definitly check out the U505.

While there look for me in one of the videos. I am the 3rd one down the tower ladder in the movie about the boarding of the sub. I am also the one that breaks open the safe to get the Enigma codes out. Talk about a fun time!

cg51 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:12 am

Besides the sights you have to try the food, we have the best Gyros, Italian beef and Pizza around, If you get down to the south suburbs down by me I can tell you where to go

Makes me hungry just thinking about it

Django · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:16 am

what town is the wedding in?

DryMartini · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:53 pm

Latitude: 42°11'24.54"N
Longitude: 88°36'23.83"W

Sasquatch · **Posted:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:10 pm

Courtesy Aircraft (premier warbird dealer) is only an hour away from Chicago--to the NW on the Tollway--in Rockford:

5233 Falcon Rd.
Rockford, IL 61109

Phone: (800) 426-8783 or (815) 229-5112
Fax: (815) 229-1815

E-mail: sales@courtesyaircraft.com

Sometimes you can catch birds out on the tarmac. Call ahead and if it's a slow day, they might accommodate your visit.

And Mike Henniger, for your listing of the 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant, the place is located on Milwaukee Avenue, just north of the Palatine Road intersection, on the left side of the road as you head north on Milwaukee. This would be the southeast corner of the field. There's a reasonably big sign there showing you where to turn in...or at least there was on my last visit there a year or two ago.

Curtis Block · **Posted:** Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:21 am

Thanks for the ideas everyone. I guess the wedding is in Glenview. Since I am the best man and the other warbird fan is the groom, we might be a little busy. I'll see what we can accomplish. Thanks again.

Sasquatch · **Posted:** Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:33 am

By the way, right there in Glenview is the old main terminal of NAS Glenview, also known as "Hangar One". As I understand it, it is now a mall :vom:

with a small display and museum honoring the naval history of the base. During the WWII, most of our carrier pilots trained there, including former President George H. Bush. NAS Glenview was the base from which pilots flew out to the paddlewheel carriers USS Sable and USS Wolverine to practice carrier landings and takeoffs. I have fond memories of the base as a kid, when my Dad would take us to the yearly airshows there--first place I ever saw an F-4 Phantom, A-4 Skyhawks, Avro Vulcan bombers...lots of other great planes and helos. It's also where I signed into the Navy back in '75. Unfortunately, they decommissioned the base in the 90's and erased the runways and now the base is a planned community...with only "Hangar One" left to show what it once was

For a little more info, go to:
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/IL/Air ... cago_N.htm

...and scroll 1/2-way down the page to:
Curtiss-Reynolds Field / Glenview NAS, Chicago, IL

USS Sable/USS Wolverine:
http://ix-carriers.blogspot.com/

"Hangar One":
http://www.hangarone.org/NewLayoutIndex.asp

Don't know if it's worth your time, but perhaps a short visit there might be cool...and then you're also not too far from 94th Aero Squadron restaurant at Palwaukee Airport for lunch and plane gawking :drinkers:

Oh yeah, one other place you might want to check-out is the "Air Classics Museum" at the Aurora Municipal Airport in Sugar Grove. I've not been there yet, but I guess it's a small privately owned warbird museum with a few planes. My buddy tells me to call them first though, as I guess he's been there but no one was around and the place wasn't open at the time.
http://www.airclassicsmuseum.org/Schools/Butch%20O

Anybody know anything more about the Air Classics Museum??

--Tom

DryMartini · **Posted:** Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:11 am

They had an open house a few weeks ago.
As for their collection, they have:

A-7 Corsair II
F-4 Phantom II
A couple Hueys
Saberliner
F-105 Thunderchief
TA-4J
F-86F Saber Photo-recon bird

There was one or two more, but I forget what
they were.

They are at the south-western corner of the Aurora airport.
Looking at the usual map sites, the satellite images have the planes
in the old location at the airport.