B-23s, B-18s, etc

[Wolverine]

I was asking for serials, TimApNy. Chris, the Loon Lake B-23 was recovered and under restoration. The recovery info is on something, can't remember what though. You can just google B-23 + 39-052+ Loon Lake and you will find it. The site got one thing wrong, though. They said that this was the most complete wreck in the US. The most complete wrecks have yet to be recovered (e.g. B-29 Lake Meade, everything in Lake Michigan, etc). I've tried to get the USAF to tell me where 39-052 will go but haven't got anything.

[Chris Brame]

Hi again,
Couldn't find that story but hope it's true - the way that plane's been cut up, I'm surprised they went to the trouble. And yes, I should have mentioned 39-063 as well...

[Wolverine]

http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/b23.htm

[RareBear]

B-23 at Loon Lake was reported to be still there in August of 2004. When was it supposedly recovered, and by whom?

Walt

[Wolverine]

I didn't read that right. It said parts were recovered, not the whole thing.

Me so stupid.

[ypochris]

[quote="Chris Brame"]Per the Warbirds Directory again:

6 known B-18s:
37-029 Castle AFB
37-469 USAFM
37-505 McChord AFB
38-593 Pima Air Museum
39-025 Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum
??-??? in Hawaii (can SOMEBODY come up with the serial, please?)

The Hawai'i B-18 is on our (Laupahoehoe Nui LLC) property, sitting in Waikaloa Gulch miles from nowhere- perhaps the most inaccessable location possible in Hawai'i. Our understanding is that it was B-18 36-446 of the 11th Bombardment Group, having crashed due to engine failure on February 25, 1941.

Chris

[Bluedharma]

Wings over the rockies.


Details: http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/39-0025.html
Regards,
Bluedharma

[Rocketeer]

Does McChord have any serious plans to get its B-23 indoors?

http://www.airshowphotography.com/B-23/m08b23-3936.jpg

[Jerry O'Neill]

In the late 1950'-1960's, Pima's use to be a Sprayer based at Simsbury, Connecticut with a bunch of TBM's and BT-13's.
Jerry

[cwmc]

In '70 or '71 my family was vacationing in our pick-up truck/camper and drove up on an old air base near Rosarita Beach in Mexico. There were a good number of B-18's there. Probably five as I recall, though it's a dim memory for details, of course rich in emotion as it always is when vintage airplanes are driven up upon when you're only 11 or 12 years old!
Chris...

[The Inspector]

Does McChord have any serious plans to get its B-23 indoors?

http://www.airshowphotography.com/B-23/m08b23-3936.jpg

NO