Guess the Museum

[Speedy]

Yes, another mystery musuem...

The AirForce Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards AFB?

Is that Al Letcher's old bird from Mojave?

[Warbirdnerd]

Yes, it is WD592.

[gary1954]

no using Joe Baugher's USAF Aircraft Serial Number lists either

[Steve Nelson]

Oshkosh? I've only been there once, and it was so foggy I could barely see the outdoor displays, but that Gooney looks familiar.

SN

[Steve T]

The vivid blue T-bird with the enormous sharkmouth belongs to the Jet Aircraft Museum group at London, Ontario; it represents the "Shearwater Shark" painted up in 1992 for a squadron anniversary/stand-down. Somewhere I have a few slides of the original, taken at the CFB Trenton airshow in 1992. This photo looks to have been taken at the revived Hamilton Air Show at Mt.Hope, home of CWH, this past June. (June 2012 is the really big show there for which the '11 version was a test run.)

Waaaay back after I posted a few old shots from what was then CAvM at Rockcliffe, someone asked if the Mosquito was still on display. Sadly it is not. The WWII section is now back to the same grouping of aircraft that were on show when the new museum opened in 1989, except, of course, for the Bf109F that replaced the Buchon in the mid-90s. Thus the present showing consists of Hurricane XII, Spitfire IX (in a horrendous quasi-421 Sqn scheme wrong in virtually every detail), Mustang 4, Lysander, Lancaster X, Bf109F and Me163. Nice grouping, but the Liberator, Bolingbroke, Mosquito, Kittyhawk, Canso and Battle slumber in storage...more's the pity. More strangely still, the superb, fully airworthy Bristol Fighter acquired a few years ago has never been on show!

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[Steve T]

Here's another one...like the blue T-bird, away from home when photographed...a bonus question, who owned this one previously, for years and years and years?



More to follow...

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[Steve T]

A pair of classic British designs...seen "at home", but far from the UK!





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[Steve T]

Two deHavillands...same museum...different nations of origin!





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[Steve T]

The date this pic was taken is key...course I'm not telling, that'd remove all the fun!



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[Steve T]

Closing with two favourites...Sea Furies...





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[Jeff H]

The fresh look Wildcat belongs to Jerry Yagen and used to be the mount of Lex Dupont.
The Silver Lysander is Vintage Wings of Canada, the Swordfish and Corsair as well.

The Vampire and Buffalo can be found nesting at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton.

The quasi military Sea Fury is Sandy Thompson's ( unless it has sold ) and he is associated with the CWH and the naval Sea Fury I am going to guess is from Shearwater Nova Scotia.

Cheers,

Jeff

PS/ The picture of the shark CT-133 was taken at St Thomas but she was also present at the 2011 Hamilton show.

[Jeff H]

Super easy one for Friday.


Cheers,


Jeff

[Steve Nelson]

NMUSAF. I remember when that one first went on display..I don't know much about aircraft of the Great War, but it's a beautiful restoration,

SN

[b747cf]

Here's another one.




Mark Fidler

[Rauhbatz]

The HU16...is that the old Florence Air Museum? Background looks like South Carolina and it had a chain link fence around it