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CAPFlyer · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:06 pm

Probably not the "new project", but will the A-36 be bedding down with you guys during the year or will it stay down south?

dtpitcairn · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:57 am

"New project alert."

It is a nice one if I am guessing correctly. I missed it by one day... Even so I am excited to see it get put back together since it seems like you will be putting in the gun rail etc. Would love to see it in the documented scheme.

51fixer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:01 am

Glenn Wegman wrote:

Do I get to guess what it is?

Foul!

Glen, thanks for your input!
Project was loaded yesterday on Les Chapman's truck in Newalla OK.
Heading home and waiting in Dallas at the moment to catch the flt to PHL.

Randy Haskin · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:55 pm

I bet it's a jet.

Jim Beasley · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:16 pm

According to rich is doesn't have a prop

Randy Haskin wrote:

I bet it's a jet.

Randy Haskin · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:52 pm

Or wings!

Jim Beasley wrote:

According to rich is doesn't have a prop

Randy Haskin wrote:

I bet it's a jet.

51fixer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:03 pm

Randy Haskin wrote:

Or wings!

Jim Beasley wrote:

According to rich is doesn't have a prop

Randy Haskin wrote:

I bet it's a jet.

Randy is using Insider Information and shouldn't be trusted.

Besides I guess I over worked him as he ran off and didn't return.
That "I have to go fly today" excuse gets pretty old after awhile. :roll:

Pilots!

51fixer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:24 pm

WIXer caught off his base.
Please identify!

Dudley Henriques · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:24 pm

51fixer wrote:

Besides I guess I over worked him as he ran off and didn't return.
That "I have to go fly today" excuse gets pretty old after awhile. :roll:

Pilots!

This always worked for me.
You mechanical A&E and AI types work WAY too hard for us " heroes of the air" :-)

)
Dudley

51fixer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:35 pm

My son wondering what he should do next?

Wings unwrapped for the 1st time in years-

My son wondering what he should do next-

A little history from memory-
SNJ-3
Built the last week of 1941. For those who are flight instructors in the USAF that would be December.
BU 01796
Originally purchased in North Carolina in 1946. The outline of the original NCXXXX can still be seen in the lower wing.
Restoration started in the early 1980s. 6 owners later we will finish it up. It last traded hands in 1997 and has been stored in a barn since early 2000s.
It comes with all the logs back to its acceptance flight for the USN.
O/H Corpus Christi NAS 1944.

51fixer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:46 pm

What Randy missed-

A big Crane-

Getting it rigged-

Les waiting to move into position-

Ready to lift-

Checking stability as it lifts-

Airborne-

Swinging into position-

Ready for the trailer-

Les in position-

CAPFlyer · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:13 am

Looks like you've got another nice project on your hands there Rich. Are you guys going to paint it up as it would've looked at NAS Corpus in 1944?

51fixer · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:14 am

CAPFlyer wrote:

Looks like you've got another nice project on your hands there Rich. Are you guys going to paint it up as it would've looked at NAS Corpus in 1944?

Since it is an early War example we will look through its records and find squadrons or units it flew with and see if we can recreate its markings from around 1942.
There is a filmstrip series produced and one was "An Introduction to the SNJ-3". This airframe was one of the aircraft featured in the filmstrip as relayed to me by the previous owner. If true that could also be a source of a scheme.

Chunks · **Joined:** Fri Jun 15, 2007 10:02 am **Posts:** 361

Great project! I'm hoping for lots of pics and progress reports.

Chunks

Dudley Henriques · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2012 1:52 pm

51fixer wrote:

CAPFlyer wrote:

Looks like you've got another nice project on your hands there Rich. Are you guys going to paint it up as it would've looked at NAS Corpus in 1944?

Since it is an early War example we will look through its records and find squadrons or units it flew with and see if we can recreate its markings from around 1942.
There is a filmstrip series produced and one was "An Introduction to the SNJ-3". This airframe was one of the aircraft featured in the filmstrip as relayed to me by the previous owner. If true that could also be a source of a scheme.

Just judging from what I can see, and realizing that it's what you don't see in initial images that provides most of the work, it looks to me like this bird has traveled well through storage and will restore beautifully.
Best of luck with the project.
Dudley Henriques

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