Warbird Information Exchange

I did not know they were consecutive Bu #s. They are both in Colorado Springs now. Here is a shot linked from the National World War II Aviation Museum's (Westpac) facebook page:

That is quite extraordinary that they are sequential.
I picture them coming down the assembly line one after the other.
It's like they are twins!
Actually twins that are twins!

Nice pic BTW.
You don't have to add anything extra to a Tigercat to make it look awesome! (I'm not really a fan of most fictitious nose art, just my preference, no slight intended)

Andy Scott

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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone!

Just curious if anybody knows from first-hand experience - that NLG door sure looks like it would be quite an effective speedbrake!

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“To invent the airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything!” - Otto Lilienthal

Natasha: "You got plan, darling?"
Boris: "I always got plan. They don't ever work, but I always got one!"

Remember, any dummy can be a dumb-ass...
In order to be a smart-ass, you first have to be "smart"
and to be a wise-ass, you actually have to be "wise"

Funny how that happens sometimes. The only two airworthy Connies left in the world (HARS in Australia and the Breitling Connie in Switzerland) were both consecutive airframes down the line at Burbank.

The apocryphal "midweek builds", i.e. not built on a Monday or a Friday.

Magnificent beasts - well done. Less is more.

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"There's nothing new under the sun. It's only new to you."

"Deserve's got nothing to do with it."

Makes you wonder what the maximum gear extend speed is.

Andy

Looking over Goodall's list I discovered the one produced just before these two (Bu80373) is on display at P-Cola...

Lufthansa should have another Connie flying in a year or so. Wonder where that serial fits in?

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"I can't understand it, I cut it twice and it's still too short!" Robert F. Dupre' 1923-2010 Go With God.

That Connie won't be close to the other two in serial numbers, as it is actually a Starliner, the last of the Connie series.

Three other survivors in line with each other are TA-4J Skyhawks, BuNo 153524, 153525, and 153526. '524 is our jet with Collings here in Houston, '525 is at the Martin Museum in Baltimore, and '526 is stored at AMARC. '525 and '526 were actually part of the last operational TA-4's, flying with VC-8 in Puerto Rico until being retired in 2003. '524 flew again the next year.

Can't wait to see them come to Ramona!

Are they coming to Ramona?

Then there are the CWH Lancaster FM213 and her sister FM212 under restoration in Windsor, ON.

SN

Then there is B-17G 44-85828, I'll Be Around and B-17G 44-85829 Yankee Lady

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Matt Gunsch, A&P, IA, Warbird maint and restorations
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We previously had two sequential Grumman OV-1D's, 68-15946 and 68-15947. We sold 946 in mid 2000's and it went on to fly under contract for the DOD while we continued to fly our remaining one to air shows. 946 is now back on the market.

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Tyler Pinkerton
Active Member of Air Heritage Inc. of Beaver Falls, PA.
Aircraft: C47B, C-123K, Fairchild F-24, Funk Model B, L-21B, T-28B, T-34B
Static: F-4C Phantom II, F-15A, T-3 Provost

Beauties. Both of them. It really was one of Grumman's prettiest designs, but I sure wouldn't want to be on the business end of one of then -- four .50s and four 20mm could put an awful lot of lead down range.