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list of private aircraft collectors

Sun Jul 21, 2013 9:37 am

I was wondering if someone here can help me. I am trying to find some of the aircraft collectors that are in sorts like Walter Soplata and Leon Cleaver. There was someone with a field full of T-28's. Im looking for people and places like this. Thanks!


-Nate

Re: list of private aircraft collectors

Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:29 pm

Nathan - I know of a Milton Pettapiece of Bethel Park, Penna has been collecting for several years. I have a note that there was several T-28's stored at Fort Lauderdale Exec, Fla - but info quite old, and I seem to recall a collector whom lived in southeat with aircraft setting in woods - read in Air Classics some years back.... Leon

Re: list of private aircraft collectors

Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:51 pm

Woodsy Airfield wrote:Nathan - I know of a Milton Pettapiece of Bethel Park, Penna has been collecting for several years. I have a note that there was several T-28's stored at Fort Lauderdale Exec, Fla - but info quite old, and I seem to recall a collector whom lived in southeat with aircraft setting in woods - read in Air Classics some years back.... Leon

Lol this is too funny.

Milt is our museum's curator.

Re: list of private aircraft collectors

Thu Aug 08, 2013 10:03 pm

Today, I asked milt what he had in his collection and....call are in pieces

1 F100D that was a drone that had been hit but was still able to land.
6 F100C
1 F84F that may have been configured to be carried by a B36
1 F4H fuselage
1 A-7 Fuselage

Various pieces from other aircraft such as wings, elevators, etc...

Re: list of private aircraft collectors

Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:00 am

flightsimer wrote:1 F84F that may have been configured to be carried by a B36


Is it an RF?
Which would make it a RF-84K (25 built as opposed to the YF-84F used for testing the FICON concept).
If it still has empennage, easy way to tell, if the horz. stabilizers have a good bit of anhedral. If so, it's something rather special.

If it's not an RF, then it's the YF-84F.

Re: list of private aircraft collectors

Fri Aug 09, 2013 10:47 pm

JohnB wrote:
flightsimer wrote:1 F84F that may have been configured to be carried by a B36


Is it an RF?
Which would make it a RF-84K (25 built as opposed to the YF-84F used for testing the FICON concept).
If it still has empennage, easy way to tell, if the horz. stabilizers have a good bit of anhedral. If so, it's something rather special.

If it's not an RF, then it's the YF-84F.

Not sure and he was not either
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