george wrote:
Any news of sinking warbirds brings back a bad memory of that very rare early-model Neptune that I saw at St. Pete, FL. It had the cannon nose and rear turret, and it was a real treasure. I still don't understand why the Naval Museum didn't want it, or at least not sink it.
That was not a early model, it was the
LAST P2V-3 Neptune that used to sit in Lowery Park Zoo, until our mayor decided it refelected war too much, so they sunk the airplane off the bay.
A week later they go out too check on the airplane, and all they found was a clean weild above the landing gears that were seiled in cement. And i think i know who stole the plane too...
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Seen here around 1975 sporting a fresh red, white & blue paint job to celebrate the USA's upcoming bicentennial, for many years the drab, gray plane served as a unique "jungle gym" for adventurous kids with a yearning to climb something. After the plane was removed, it was relocated to the St. Pete air museum (which was basically an outdoor parking lot of old planes.) The museum, which was located by the St. Pete-Clearwater airport and the old 94th Aero Squadron restaurant, eventually fell into disrepair and closed. The aircraft were moved (dumped) in a field off of Hwy 17 south of Ft. Meade FL. (Wrong, it was sunk. It was a SST that was placed in a feild.) Some have been moved to the MAPS Air Museum, Akron Ohio to be restored for museum display.
EDIT: There were a few planes dumped in a feild south of Fort Meade, according to MAPS website, but does anyone know where that was? And if there are any left in the feild?
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