Fighter Factory Restorations

warbirdguy · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:03 pm

Other than what is listed on their restoration page, what does the FF have in restoration?

http://www.fighterfactory.com/aircraft-restoration.php

RMAllnutt · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:06 pm

Well... their MiG-3 is going through a lot of re-work at the moment. Has yet to fly in the USA, but they hope to have her in the air this summer.

Richard

PeterA · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:34 pm

TriangleP wrote:

I believe that Jerry Yagen is also involved with the restoration of A-20G 43-9436 "Big Nig" to flying at Wangarratta, Australia. .

Not so....Im afraid.

PeterA

Second Air Force · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 3:29 pm

PeterA wrote:

TriangleP wrote:

I believe that Jerry Yagen is also involved with the restoration of A-20G 43-9436 "Big Nig" to flying at Wangarratta, Australia. .

Not so....Im afraid.

PeterA

Wasn't there some kind of recent "swap" that involved 43-9436? I found a very old thread with info on this airplane: http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... php?t=4864

Scott

warbirdguy · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:30 pm

Thanks for the respsonses so far. Don't they have an N3N close to flight or am I completely wrong?

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 6:43 pm

warbirdguy wrote:

Thanks for the respsonses so far. Don't they have an N3N close to flight or am I completely wrong?

Yep.

JDK · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:38 pm

The RAF Museum have traded a Spitfire with Precision for a Boston (subsequent data to the Classic Wings article).

Precision hold the remaining material that the RAAF recovered and the RAAF Museum and RAAF Amberley rebuilt 'He11 & Pelican and A28-8 'Jessica' from. There were parts from about a half-dozen airframes, but how many aircraft you can make from them depends...

That's official, public domain.

I understand that one of the Vought Kingfisher projects at Wangaratta is for Yagen, but the P-39s and P-40s are first out. There are P-38 projects also.

Matt Gunsch · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:24 pm

Kermit has a Kingfisher restoration underway as well,
http://blog.kermitweeks.com/?cat=11

near the bottom of the page
Then I’m off to Australia for some business meetings, but not before I stop in and look at my Kingfisher and P-39 projects in Wangaretta, north of Melbourne. I continue on to London to check on the final stages of my Hawker Tempest V project, which we are bringing up to displayable condition. Everything has been rebuilt to airworthy standards but we are currently just trying to get it displayable for Fantasy of Flight. I have two Napier Sabre engines for it and one day hope to make it fly!

JDK · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:33 pm

TriangleP wrote:

Thanks James! Okay, so where are the photos? :lol:

Embargoed. Sorry.

Hemiman · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:58 pm

Here's a couple...

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kalamazookid · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:28 pm

Yagen also has a second 109 that is actually a Hispano being converted and restored to be powered by a DB605. I heard a rumor that he also has 2-3 FW190s and that he bought the remaining Ki-43 Oscar replicas.

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:55 pm

Thanks for the pics..the Boston/Havoc has always been one of my favorites. I hope somebody gets one flying here in the States at some point in my life. I'm glad the former LSFM A-20 will be getting air under her wings, but since she's going Down Under I doubt I'll ever see her.

SN

A2C · **Posted:** Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:09 am

Where did he get the A-20 from? These things just don't appear out of thin air. Another A-20 just like it is in the Pima Air Museum. 2-3 others were at the RAAF museum. Was this one of those?

airnutz · **Posted:** Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:39 am

RMAllnutt wrote:

Well... their MiG-3 is going through a lot of re-work at the moment. Has yet to fly in the USA, but they hope to have her in the air this summer.

Richard

Can you share what happened? It flew in Russia..is this an Americanization process?

airnutz · **Posted:** Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:48 am

TriangleP wrote:

the "Big Nig" moniker was based on a book character, the significance of which I do not know, but obviously from another era. Enough said about that.

Maybe different literary circles, but the "Big Nig" I'm aware of was a character from a 1931 Damon Runyon
short story, "The Bloodhounds of Broadway". "Big Nig", another Runyon colorful(no pun intended) character was
a streetsmart crapshooter...an interesting name for an A-20 in a desperate war against the Japanese..if in
fact THIS literature is where the name originated? :wink:

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