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Pat Carry
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Is the museum still open? Their website is not working and I know during the summer there was talk about it closing.

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I believe it's closed.

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I believe they are planning to move to the JFK Museum if the ship's transfer is approved.

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Sounds like the collection is will be moving to other locations...I hope scrapman isn't too busy.
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Didn't they have a F6F they were restoring to airworthy?
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Didn't they have a F6F they were restoring to airworthy?

According to a trustworthy source, the Navy will be keeping the F6F.

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Does anyone have any contacts there that I may use to get in touch with?

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Noha307 wrote:
I believe they are planning to move to the JFK Museum if the ship's transfer is approved.


It seems that Portland, Maine effort is actually defunct as of late 2011, but the Newport, Rhode Island group is still forging ahead ... http://www.ussjfkri.org/
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Didn't they have a F6F they were restoring to airworthy?

It was a salt water recovery and I believe was always intended as a static restoration.
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I have the same info on the F6f USN is picking it up.

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Any news on the F2H-3 Banshee which is a major reskinning project?

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Any news on the F2H-3 Banshee which is a major re-skinning project?

Not just re-skinning, but searching for the elusive fuselage panels. The later, "long" Banshee, is quite different from the earlier birds, and so far they have been unsuccessful in locating the many missing access panels.
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Jerry O'Neill wrote:
Woodsy Airfield wrote:
Any news on the F2H-3 Banshee which is a major re-skinning project?

Not just re-skinning, but searching for the elusive fuselage panels. The later, "long" Banshee, is quite different from the earlier birds, and so far they have been unsuccessful in locating the many missing access panels.
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