Warbirds in Civies - Post your finds

[Mike]

Oshkosh a few decades ago. Danged if I can figure out how to post a full size image from Webshots.

I stripped that red paint (along with many, many layers of filler) off that aeroplane in the late-1980s.

[ChrisK48]

Two Bill Fornof aircraft at the Maryland National Air Races in Frederick in 1968. Both were later destroyed in fatal crashes.

[ChrisK48]

Here are some more from the Maryland National Air Races in 1968. These are not very good photos, but you get the idea. The first two were also later involved in fatal crashes. The third one is now flying as Hurry Home Honey.

[ChrisK48]

I don't know if this counts as a warbird or not. If not, feel free to zap it. The "Lyman Lake Special" in Phoenix in 1978.

[Steve T]

Oi. OK, here are some...

Avro Anson Mk.VP, CF-HOT, very recently ex-International Nickel Co (INCO), at Mt.Hope ON in 1980 just after donation to CWH...



Avengers CF-BEG and CF-XOM of Hicks & Lawrence Ltd, St.Thomas ON, 1981...



Forest Protection's TBM #10, Miramichi (Fredericton) NB, 2002



Three Saskatchewan Government CS2F Tracker tankers at Prince Albert SK, May 1995



In reply to the query about authentically reproduced civvies on Warbirds...here's one...an unconverted ex-USN S2F spare airframe, painted by Conair as a Firecat, and given to the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre in Sault Ste-Marie ON...so yes, that does happen!




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[Steve T]

A few more...

Ex Kal Aero target tug AD-4N at KAHM (the Air Zoo), summer 1982



Former Svensk Flygtjanst AD-4W SE-EBL target tug at Geneseo, 1998



Ex-Conair A-26 C-FKBZ, tanker 27, at Mt.Hope airshow 1988



Air Spray Invader at Red Deer (Penhold), Alberta, May 1995; that's maintenance chief Bob Mains and my dad in the vintage Jeep in which we were squired all over the airport to see A-26s...what a grand day...



Also belonging to Air Spray at the time, but obviously ex-Lynch Aerial Tankers, this one is also seen at Red Deer that day...a complete surprise and like dropping by the set of "Always"!



Remains of LAS Super 26 "Koba Wiki" at Red Deer



more to follow...

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[Steve T]

More...

Exec B-25 on deck of USS Yorktown, Charleston SC, 1981



PV-1 Ventura at Brown Field, Quantico VA, 1983



Howard 500 (ex-Ventura) at Anoka, MN, 1999



P2V Neptune, Hawkins & Powers Tanker 140, Bemidji MN, May 1995



...more to follow

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[Steve T]

More...

PBY C-GGDW of Geoterrex Surveys, seen Toronto, winter 1981-82



Canso C-FPQK, Quebec Government waterbomber, visits Trenton ON, 1982



Ex-Quebec Canso C-FPQL soon after donation to CWH, seen at Mt.Hope airshow 1996



PBY-6A, tanker 115, at St.Paul MN, 1999



PB4Y-2 Privateer of Hawkins & Powers at Hibbing MN, May 1995



And finally, a turbine bird...OV-10A Bronco at Bemidji MN, May 1995, the bird dog for the previously posted Neptune.



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[N3Njeff]

Thanks for posting the pic of the Howard 500 but its was never military.

[Steve T]

Well not in its Howard form, no--neither was the LAS Super 26 really an Invader any more; but Howard 250s started out as Lodestars, and 350s/500s as PV-1 Venturas.

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[Steve Nelson]

Cool pics! Keep 'em coming!

Any idea what happened to that Ventura? The registry lists it as being owned by someone in Florida, but other than that I can't find any info.

That pic of the Skyraider at the Air Zoo is interesting. Note that there's just a "courtesy chain" marking the perimeter of the ramp, with a polite sign asking visitors to stay behind it. Now there's a ten-foot chain-link fence topped with barbed wire, and stern warnings of federal prosecution for tresspassers (that's an FAA thing..no knock against the Air Zoo.)

SN

[Fortress Fan]

Oshkosh a few decades ago. Danged if I can figure out how to post a full size image from Webshots.

I stripped that red paint (along with many, many layers of filler) off that aeroplane in the late-1980s.

I remember that, in the T2

[Jerry O'Neill]

Here's the NAA AJ-2 Savage when owed by AVCO in Stratford, CT. Taken in 1979.





1953 C-46:




C-47 at Oxford, CT before repaint, 2010.


T-33 Bozeman, MT 2010.


F-100 ex:flight System bird, Bozeman, MT, Aug 2010.


Jerry

[Roger Cain]

Recent find at the Reno Air Races last Sept.

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[CWH Museum]

Here are a few more shots of aircraft from the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum collection:


Beech 18 C-GZCE.


DC-3, now C-GDAK.


Stearman CF-AIU.


Fleet Fawn, later C-FLTI, now ???


Fleet Finch CF-FUI (Note: Fleet 21 CF-DLC in background).


Don McNall's T-34 that was flown on behalf of CWH during the eighties.