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Re: Surviving DH-4s

Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:33 pm

I hope nobody minds me bringing this old thread back from the dead, but I'm trying to compile a list of surviving DH-4s

So far I have:

Restored originals:

Creve Coeur - Metal Fuselage mailplane (flown for a while in 2006-7)
Evergreen - Metal Fuselage mailplane
Weeks - Wooden Fuselage mailplane (under restoration)
Peter Jackson - Wooden Fuselage bomber
USAF Museum - Wooden Fuselage bomber
NASM - Wooden Fuselage bomber
National Postal Museum - Wooden Fuselage mailplane
USMC Museum - Wooden Fuselage bomber (ex-Crissy Field, San Francisco)

Replicas:

Peter Jackson - Wooden Fuselage bomber (under construction)
Kermit Weeks - Wooden Fuselage bomber (under construction)

Any more out there? I believe parts of 4 (ex-Tallmantz?) were with Kermit Weeks at one time. Does anyone know where the others ended up?

Re: Surviving DH-4s

Mon Jan 21, 2013 10:09 am

If the Jackson airplane is the ex-Thompson DH-4 from Cleveland, and I assume it is, then it is a DH-4M1 (steel tube fuselage) like Evergreen's.

I'll look at my notes but I think you may have all the ones that I know of already included in your list. I hope to get my father's DH-4M2 back in the air this Summer along with the Hisso Standard, OX-5 Cannuck, and Hisso Travel Air. We have never had a Hisso, OX-5, and Liberty in formation at the same time so that's my goal this year.

I have detailed photos of Evergreen's DH-4 and the former Thompson DH-4 if you want them.

Re: Surviving DH-4s

Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:44 am

The NASM example displayed in the US Postal Museum is I understand a reproduction that includes original parts. The original aircraft was mostly destroyed in a brush fire, though I do not know e=when this occurred.

Re: Surviving DH-4s

Tue Jan 22, 2013 2:08 am

Great timing, here's a snap of one of Peter Jackson's (TVAL) taken at Wings Over Wairarapa this weekend.

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Re: Surviving DH-4s

Fri Jan 25, 2013 4:32 pm

old iron wrote:The ...example ... is I understand a reproduction that includes original parts.


At this point, that is probably the case for most WWI-era aircraft with wooden fuselages (and more than a few WWII-era warbirds as well). :)
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