Yanks Air Museum - I'm Impressed...

GRNDP51 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:34 pm **Posts:** 508

They're getting Fatal Fang to airworthy now too?? I never thought I would see that plane fly!

So the P-40, soon to be Hellcat, Dauntless or Helldiver (?), and now Fatal Fang? And then the F-5 Lightning?!?!

WOW...!

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Fri May 31, 2019 8:38 pm

Mike · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 8:54 am **Posts:** 3328

Whatever happened to the plan to move to a new facility in Monterey?

maradamx3 · **Posted:** Mon Jun 03, 2019 11:04 am

Mike wrote:

Whatever happened to the plan to move to a new facility in Monterey?

Yanks was going to move? Never heard this. I remember POF announcing a potential future move. Is there a thread about it?
Thanks

Warbirdnerd · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:34 pm **Posts:** 2923

maradamx3 wrote:

Mike wrote:

Whatever happened to the plan to move to a new facility in Monterey?

Yanks was going to move? Never heard this. I remember POF announcing a potential future move. Is there a thread about it?
Thanks

There were a few, here is one-
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25256&hilit=yanks+air+museum+moving#p242131

marine air · **Posted:** Tue Jun 04, 2019 3:47 pm

You can put the idea of them moving to Monterrey out of your mind. They told us that when my dad and I visited in 1980. Have you been to Monterrey? It’s a gorgeous and extremely expensive area of Southern California. Yanks has many millions invested in buildings and land. They have a really nice, first class museum. Monterrey is very expensive and not all that much land on the airport. They’ll remain at Chino for many decades,
.

michaelharadon · **Posted:** Wed Jun 05, 2019 1:47 pm

But for how long will the Chino airport be allowed to exist and not be developed?

Warbirdnerd · **Joined:** Fri Apr 30, 2004 7:34 pm **Posts:** 2923

The last "news" about the Greenfield Project is from Jan 2016...
https://yanksair.org/greenfield-project ... /#more-200

rahill · **Joined:** Fri May 14, 2010 5:43 pm **Posts:** 8

marine air wrote:

You can put the idea of them moving to Monterrey out of your mind. They told us that when my dad and I visited in 1980. Have you been to Monterrey? It’s a gorgeous and extremely expensive area of Southern California. Yanks has many millions invested in buildings and land. They have a really nice, first class museum. Monterrey is very expensive and not all that much land on the airport. They’ll remain at Chino for many decades,
.

Greenfield is about an hour from Monterey (one "r") and, although still in Northern (not Southern) California, not exactly the same economic climate as Monterey.

Thomas_Mac · **Posted:** Fri Oct 18, 2019 11:54 am

Looks like Fatal Fang has been doing gear swings.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B3vjGJbIuv6/

Deuelly · **Joined:** Thu Jul 05, 2012 3:30 pm **Posts:** 97

marine air wrote:

You can put the idea of them moving to Monterrey out of your mind. They told us that when my dad and I visited in 1980. Have you been to Monterrey? It’s a gorgeous and extremely expensive area of Southern California. Yanks has many millions invested in buildings and land. They have a really nice, first class museum. Monterrey is very expensive and not all that much land on the airport. They’ll remain at Chino for many decades,
.

From what I understand the plan is still to eventually move. I don't know when but I think it will happen.

One thing i would be doing if I were going to move a large number of aircraft to a new location is get as many flying as possible. It's cheaper to fly than take apart, truck, and reassemble. Concentrate on the ones that are closest to flying condition. That seems to be their current plan.

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Fri Oct 18, 2019 3:01 pm

marine air wrote:

You can put the idea of them moving to Monterrey out of your mind. They told us that when my dad and I visited in 1980. Have you been to Monterrey? It’s a gorgeous and extremely expensive area of Southern California. Yanks has many millions invested in buildings and land. They have a really nice, first class museum. Monterrey is very expensive and not all that much land on the airport. They’ll remain at Chino for many decades.

Considering that Yanks has finished building there luxury RV Park and its now open for business, I think it's fair to say that they are moving ahead with the Greenfield Project. https://www.yanksrvresort.com

If you look at the location on Google Maps you'll also see the beginning stages of laying out where the tarmac, runway, etc will be. So I think it's safe to say you'll start to see this property expand and be built upon in the next few years. Once the infrastructure is built, the aircraft will start either flying or being trucked in. At that point I'll have to consider visiting to see.

GRNDP51 · **Joined:** Fri Sep 22, 2017 1:34 pm **Posts:** 508

Warbird Kid wrote:

marine air wrote:

You can put the idea of them moving to Monterrey out of your mind. They told us that when my dad and I visited in 1980. Have you been to Monterrey? It’s a gorgeous and extremely expensive area of Southern California. Yanks has many millions invested in buildings and land. They have a really nice, first class museum. Monterrey is very expensive and not all that much land on the airport. They’ll remain at Chino for many decades.

Considering that Yanks has finished building there luxury RV Park and its now open for business, I think it's fair to say that they are moving ahead with the Greenfield Project. https://www.yanksrvresort.com

If you look at the location on Google Maps you'll also the beginning stages of laying out where the tarmac, runway, etc will be. So I think it's safe to say you'll start to see this property expand and be built upon in the next few years. Once the infrastructure is built, the aircraft will start either flying or being trucked in. At that point I'll have to consider visiting to see.

Wait a second, you're telling me that Yanks owns a luxury RV resort that will soon have a private airfield with one of the best collections of warbirds housed there? This is so random but SO cool!!!

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Fri Oct 18, 2019 4:45 pm

GRNDP51 wrote:

Wait a second, you're telling me that Yanks owns a luxury RV resort that will soon have a private airfield with one of the best collections of warbirds housed there? This is so random but SO cool!!!

Yes indeedy. On top of multiple restaurants, a hotel, amphitheater, private hangars, a gas station, commercial retail spots, and of course the museum.
https://ci.greenfield.ca.us/189/Yanks-Air-Museum

Heres a projected layout of the entire campus. I'm sure it won't all happen overnight and has been broken up into several phases to ease the overall price.
https://ci.greenfield.ca.us/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/81

ZRX61 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:16 am **Posts:** 2303

Warbird Kid wrote:

If you look at the location on Google Maps you'll also see the beginning stages of laying out where the tarmac, runway, etc will be. So I think it's safe to say you'll start to see this property expand and be built upon in the next few years. Once the infrastructure is built, the aircraft will start either flying or being trucked in. At that point I'll have to consider visiting to see.

Runway area & quite a bit of the rest of the plan are still under cultivation. Couldn't see any evidence of the runway at all.

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