Buckeye AirFair - Buckeye, Arizona

[cco23i]

Very glad to see the B-25 running again. It left the Wiley Sanders' collection and seemed to be going downhill; is this the first it has flown in years?

Ken

I doubt it was flown, Hans does not have a multi rating and can only fly the PT-17, T-6, T-28, none of the planes other than the TBM and HU-16 are on a maint program, and the planes are going downhill from the last time I saw them. The TBM had a engine failure several years ago and was trailer-ed to Buckeye, and it appears the DC-3 has had one as well. The C-1 is looking very sad.

Slowly but surely they are getting the aircraft up, we are going to start helping soon too.

Scott

[C VEICH]

I know the B-25 went downhill for a while but it was out at the CAF facility at Falcon Field for quite a while and got some new fabric at least. Matt probably knows more about what was done. It was flown from Mesa to Buckeye within the last couple of years.

[GARY HILTON]

Wat to go Hans! It's about time! I still have the pictures incriminating you....

[thundergull pilot]

Hans Lauridsen's Flying Boxcar. This appeared in the movie "Flight of the Phoenix." (The 2004 remake.) It still has the fake markings that were used in the movie.

Second shot is one of the its engines, which I assume is an R-3350. Maybe one of the engine experts here can verify that.

Yes it is a Wright r-3350-85 Turbocompound made by Chevrolet
http://enginehistory.org/Wright/Kuhns/C ... unds.shtml

[Matt Gunsch]

Wow - I can only imagine the cost in flying the C-119 in fuel and oil alone! I would so dearly love to see it fly though - how cool would that be to see buzz the field and come in for a landing!?

Tom P.

Like this ?

[ChrisK48]

Yes it is a Wright r-3350-85 Turbocompound made by Chevrolet

Thanks!

[Larry Kraus]

Nice pictures Chris,thanks for posting them.As you suspected,the Boxcar engine in the picture is a Wright R 3350-89.

Here's a picture of another H&P Box undergoing a cylinder change during the 1981 Alaska Fish Haul in Homer.I think that it was more or less a C-119G



Here's a Pratt & Whitney R 4360-20W on Hemet Valley Flying Service's C-119C Tanker 89 in Paso Robles undergoing day off maintenance in August 1982

[Ken]

FIFI's engines are essentially part C-119 and part Skyraider, right? Since these engines were flown in wide numbers until 1975 and, in some cases, a fair amount since, it is a shame that parts and expertise seem so hard to come by. Anderson may not be the only ones to work on them, but they seem to have done a great job establishing themselves as "the" place call.

Ken