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I am assuming this is the same airframe that was in front of the court house years ago? Where is it located now?

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John Cotter

That second shot really shows off the lines of the F-84. Very sleek.

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I think it's back out at Hullman Field now, next to the Air Guard base. I'll shoot an e-mail to my wife's ex..he helped with its recent refurbishment. The markings look a bit odd..the plane is silver with the 50s style nose markings, but it's got the modern style tail code and low-viz insignia.

SN

I can't remember the streets off hand, but it is sitting on VFW property, north side of town.

The F-84F is almost on the corner of 25th Street and Ft. Harrison Street.

I tossed the corrosion control guys the pics I had of what our F-84F's looked like in several different schemes from 1958 onward,they kind of just went with what looked good to them They did a better job ob the F-84F at the base but it too has a somewhat inaccurate scheme on it.

My father was one of the people who prepped it for display in 1959 and was part of it's dedication at the courthouse,from what I was told the jet wasn't one assigned to us,it was a cross-country jet from another ANG unit that was found unflyable during post-flight inspection.

I'll try and get a few pics up in a bit of the jet pre-repaint.

Courthouse dedication of the above F-84F,my father is on the left hand corner in first pic.He also made the plaque for the display,he re-cast I believe 3-4 more due them always being stolen,he gave up replacing them in the early 70's.

The jet prior to re-paint

Some of our F-84F's over the years

Where is this F-84 now? Does anyone have lat and lons?

Mike

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Hi Dave..didn't realize you were registered here! So, there are two F-84Fs in TH? I didn't realize that. Are the aircraft out at the base accessible to the public? I'd like to snap some pics next time we're down that way. I took some of the rather sad F-86D at the Brazil courthouse last year..that poor girl could really use some TLC.

SN

N 39° 30.457 W 087° 22.662
16S E 467529 N 4373177

It's not showing the jet on the Google maps yet.

Steve,it's a F-86F in Brazil,it was originally assigned to Wright-Pat before making it's way to Brazil,it was a victim of a belly landing from what I was told,they got it display ready and then trucked it to Brazil.

The F-84F on base might be hard to get to if you don't have a base sticker or military ID but the Legion one is right off the road,you can get to it from the Legion parking lot or off of North 25th.I think I have a pic of the one on base somewhere,I'll try and find it and post it.

D'oh! I stand corrected. I just went back and looked at my pics..for some reason I remembered it as having the big dog-nose.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled F-84F thread, already in progress.

SN