Aviation Restaurants

[sandiego89]

Not 100% sure, I believe this restaurant was located in Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana.

Photo credit: Unknown.

That Carvair is going to need a looooonnnngggg take off run with those propellers!

[bdk]

Haha! The Checker Airporter is rarer than the Cessna!

Last for tonight, this was shot in Indianapolis, IN. It resembles pretty much, a similar restaurant in Lee's Summit, MO

Saludos,


Tulio

[Vagabond]

Hi Everyone

Thought y'all might be interested in the Aviator Brewing Tap House & Kitchen located at 600 Broad St, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526.

I headed down there to document the area yesterday. Have look:

https://www.vgbimages.com/AirMuseums/Av ... NC/n-rbt5Q







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[Scott Rose]

Okay the prop beer taps are all sorts of awesome!

[Michel Lemieux]

Tulio, as a kid, they used to serve hot dogs directly from inside the plane.

It is now located in a pet shop at Place Versaille displayed as a crashed jungle AC.



Found it! Before it was placed at an angle:

[bdk]

Right near home and you can watch the airport activity, including the occasional warbird from the dining area windows.



https://www.wingscafefullertonairport.com/

[Tulio]

Michel,

Thank you!!

My family from Montreal and I, went on an aimless drive a Saturday, September 2001, North of Montreal, and happened to to find the airplane by happenstance. The restaurant showed signs of having been closed for a while, and the airplane was showing the ravages of age and element exposure.

Saludos,


Tulio

[Tulio]

Mrs. Margarita Blay, from Puerto Rico, took the first two photos of the Ahrens 404 airplane remains being used as a restaurant, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. She is the sister of my friend and former co-worker Luis Blay, and he was the motivating force behind an article I wrote in 1998 on the failed development of the Ahrens 404.

The photo of the prototype in flight, photographer unknown, via Dr. Gary Kuhn, and the last photo via Mr. John Jerabek.


Saludos,


Tulio

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[bdk]

Interesting aircraft Tulio! Never heard of it before. The prototype was built near me in Oxnard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahrens_AR_404

The in-flight shot appears to be the fist production example built in Puerto Rico, not actually the prototype.

Looks like a decent concept. Too bad it didn't pan out.

[Warbird Kid]

With all the Tallichet restaurants closing, does anyone know of a fiberglass Corsair that could be aquired?

[Scott Rose]

Interesting aircraft Tulio! Never heard of it before. The prototype was built near me in Oxnard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahrens_AR_404

The in-flight shot appears to be the fist production example built in Puerto Rico, not actually the prototype.

Looks like a decent concept. Too bad it didn't pan out.

Looks like the offspring of a Sikorsky helicopter and a Sky Van

[bdk]

With all the Tallichet restaurants closing, does anyone know of a fiberglass Corsair that could be aquired?

Tallichet's son is on Facebook.

Also, the company website: https://www.specialtyrestaurants.com/our-restaurants

This one is closing at the end of the year: https://d3ciwvs59ifrt8.cloudfront.net/a ... 153801.pdf

A guy named Joe Prieto was the guy in charge of the molds and making the fiberglass aircraft. Not sure what happened to all that stuff.

[Tulio]

It was a long time ago, when I saw the P-51 fiberglass fuselage moldings, at the Sevierville TN. airport, outside of their aviation museum.


I don't know who owned them... In town, there was a fiberglass P-51 atop a pole, on the main street drag.


Saludos,


Tulio

[bdk]

It was a long time ago, when I saw the P-51 fiberglass fuselage moldings, at the Sevierville TN. airport, outside of their aviation museum.

Westpac, then in Rialto, CA had a P-51 mold. Since they restored the Sevierville Thunderbolts, I'm guessing that was the source.

[Lon Moer]

The is still a Mustang fuselage in the parking lot at Charles Shultz/Santa Rosa, on satellite view.

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