Guess the Museum

Speedy · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:44 pm

Warbirdnerd wrote:

jdvoss wrote:

Yes, another mystery musuem...

The AirForce Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards AFB?

Is that Al Letcher's old bird from Mojave?

Warbirdnerd · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:34 pm **Posts:** 2923

Yes, it is WD592.

gary1954 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:21 pm

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

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2012 10:49 pm

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 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:46 pm

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!

S.

Steve T · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:52 pm

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...

S.

Steve T · **Posted:** Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:56 pm

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

S.

Steve T · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:01 am

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

S.

Steve T · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:04 am

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

S.

Steve T · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:06 am

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

S.

Jeff H · **Joined:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:33 pm **Posts:** 140

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 · **Joined:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:33 pm **Posts:** 140

Super easy one for Friday.

Cheers,

Jeff :spit

Steve Nelson · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 7:05 am

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 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 8:05 am

Here's another one.

Mark Fidler

Rauhbatz · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 1:53 pm

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

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