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Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:03 pm

Last time I saw it was years ago up at the Denton Airport....

Lynn

Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:06 pm

[quote="Lynn Allen"]Last time I saw it was years ago up at the Denton Airport....

Lynn[/quote]


It was sold years ago(how many??) to a rancher in Santa Fe, I spied it around 01-02 stopping in the airport to jpeg the Connie there. I don't know if its still there or not?

Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:57 am

Sorry Fellas

That is definitely NOT a Barkley Grow due to the fact that the a/c in the pic has retractable landing gear and the Barkley had fixed gear only.

The a/c in the first post is a Beech 18 or C 45

Other posts are correct , there are two known Barkley Grow a/c .
Both are in Canada. My dad use to work on them.

Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:14 am

Looking more at the first pic and reading the posts, if the engines are indeed Jacobs, that would explain the cowlings.
I am pretty sure you will find that the cowlings are from a T-50 Bobcat which was Jacobs powered.

It makes one wonder why they would re-engine a Beech with Jacobs when there are plenty of Pratt & Whitney engines around

Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:20 am

Fellas
I must apologize again the pic by Gary would not come up due to security reasons at my work.
I was making my statements based on the pic submitted by Bluedharma.

Sorry for the mix up
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