Old warbird pictures in and around Kansas City

[ehansey]

I'm fairly new to this site but love all the info, pictures, etc that are posted. I was digging through some old photo albums looking for photos of air museums and air shows I'd attended as a child in and around Kansas City. Sadly, it appears my parents didn't keep (or have) as many as I remembered. Was wondering if anyone had any good photos of some old Richards Gebaur or Forbes Field Airshows. Or any Combat Air Museum photos. Really, any time frame will do but optimal would be mid/late 80s - early/mid 90s. Would love to add some back to the collection. Thanks!

[Rob Mears]

There was an FG-1D Corsair in Antioch Park (Overland Park, KS area) on outdoor display from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Being that it was a public meeting place, I'm amazed that more photos of this Corsair don't exist. I have a number of shots, but none that clearly show the Bureau Number painted under the horizontal tail. I'd sure love to see a few more photos of this plane surface one day soon!

[AirJimL2]

Rob,

Is this the Corsair you are talking about?

http://www.kingsdomain.us/lincolnafb/in ... -s-corsair

I know you said Kansas, and this is Nebraska, but the stories are very similar. Both parks even start with the letter A.

Edited to add: Wow, guess not:

http://www.jcprd.com/anniversary/photoarchive.cfm

So am I to assume the Kansas FG didn't survive the 70s?

Jim

[Rob Mears]

That's the one in the last link, Jim. The Confederate Air Force actually looked at the plane in the late 60's/early 70's, but it was apparently too derelict to pique their interest. Johnson County contracted with local scrap merchant S&G Metals in the mid-1970s who removed the plane and hauled it off for scrap! I'm astounded that the city decided to scrap it since the civilian warbird movement was well established by that time. You'd think they would have at least put an ad in Trade-A-Plane!

I obtained a full-sized copy of the photo in that link, but the Bureau Number on the plane is still illegible. My best guess would be BuNo.76545. I believe the County obtained that example directly from the newly stricken inventory at NAS Olathe.

[DanteC]

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9957

I posted a few pics years ago that my dad and mom took at Richards-Gebaur and Forbes. My dad had a BT-13 that he flew at the airshows in the late 80s - early 90s.