Help! CAF show...not sure of location.

Ztex · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:23 pm

I've been scanning family slides and I ran across these...the slides are marked 1984.
It does not look like Harlingen or Breckenridge.
I "think" this was at Denton but I'm just not sure.

Thanks,

N16KL ....

muddyboots · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 4:32 pm

God I can just smell the fuel in the air!

Randy Wilson · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:07 pm

It may well be Denton 1984, which was organized and run by the CAF's Dallas/Ft. Worth Wing. I had joined the CAF and that Wing in May of that year and that looks like my yellow and white Pitts S-2A in the sixth photo down. I recongnize a number of the other planes and believe they were at Denton that year. I think I have several hours of VHS footage of that show. Unfortunately, it is on the list to be digitized and not yet done. If you have any photos of the terminal building or hangars, that might help.

Randy

K5DH · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:09 pm

Yep, the background looks like Denton. Man, they just don't put on warbird shows like that any more, do they?

Speedy · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 5:16 pm

k5dh wrote:

Yep, the background looks like Denton. Man, they just don't put on warbird shows like that any more, do they?

Sure they do...it's just that today it's all CJ-6's and Navions.

Obergrafeter · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:20 pm

Put invasion stripes on them and you got perfection.

C VEICH · **Joined:** Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:40 pm **Posts:** 1471

I can't help with the location I'm afraid but I would like to express my gratitude for your willingness to share the pictures. For my money I just can't get enough photos from what I consider to be the "heyday" of warbird airshows.

C170BDan · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 7:46 am

Zane,

Those look to match my Denton pictures from that time frame.

Some of the airplanes and ramp layout appear to be Denton.

These were my first couple of CAF shows. Good memories and I was pretty young!

Ztex · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:46 am

Thanks guys! Denton, TX it is then!
I don't have any other pics of the ramp, the old terminal or anything with this set. I remember that show being very hot but the warbird action was such that we didn't care!

Those were the days...indeed.

HORSEPOWER!!!!!!

StangStung · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:06 am

Sure looks like Denton.

Man, they had some killer air shows there back in the 80s. I remember running out in my front yard and seeing what seemed like the entire CAF fleet passing over Dallas on the way there. Fifi in the middle and what seemed like a bunch of fleas around it.

Thanks for posting!

JFS61 · **Joined:** Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:44 pm **Posts:** 305

Supposed to have gone to one of those Denton shows and visit some family friends, but unfortunately I never did.

Those were some fun times back in the CAF during the 80's (excluding the various accidents, of course) - Seems like there were airshows everywhere in Texas at the time (College Station, Waco, Denton, Galveston, Breckenridge, etc.). Just wish I had gone to more of them when I had the opportunity.

cwmc · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:43 am **Posts:** 322

Same in California, the 1980's seemed to be that magic time when money and airplane availability made the perfect combo for a lot of operations and a lot of resto's, of various degrees.
Being 30 years ago, the airplanes were still, in many cases, just old airplanes. Many parts stashes were plentiful and cheap, people's money spent much farther.
Neat times.
Chris...

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