N3N pics

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:24 pm

Anyone on here have any pics of N3N's.....................museum, flying, storage.................working on a registry list for WIX.............thanks for the help.

astixjr · **Posted:** Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:31 pm

I'll try to post some photos of the N3N in our museum that is getting ready to leave. First we had to move it from the back corner of the hangar to the front, that was fun. Now it has to have the floats removed and the gear put back under it. I'll take some photos as this gets done and also try to find the old 70s Super 8MM video transfer of it at Lake of the Ozarks, towing a guy on water skis :shock:

. I've also found some vido take of the one at Hood River taking off on the dolly and landing in the river. I think it was taken in the late 80s or early 90s. Albert

ZuluEcho · **Joined:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:03 am **Posts:** 115

wasn't there a pic posted a few weeks ago off all these N3N fuselages lined up on some airbase. can't seem to find that thread any more.

Tulio · **Joined:** Mon May 03, 2004 1:05 am **Posts:** 3236

There are three photos for this baby:

NAVY N3N-3 • $115,000 • FOR SALE • Restored by Mike Posey, 1340 PW 100SMOH, 24V with radios, Ceconite 101, in license, hangared. Must be trucked out, airport closed . Located in Eastern Pa. Wayne Bullock 1-215-343-1905 Leave message. • Contact Wayne S. Bullock - located Warrington, PA USA • Telephone: 1-215-343-1905 • Posted December 4, 2006

http://www.barnstormers.com/cat.php?PHP ... 0edceb60e7

Saludos,

Tulio

k5083 · **Posted:** Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:44 pm

I have quite a few. I'll PM you in a few days with a list of N-numbers and serials; you can tell me what you don't have. Meanwhile here are a couple of my oldest, and my newest.

N__217, unknown place and year but likely Flabob, 1960s. Would appreciate complete N-number.

N6399T, 1965, probably Rockford.

N44907, Long Island, 2006.

August

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Tue Dec 05, 2006 4:31 pm

albert,
I think I have seen that footage!!!! Does the guy eat it???? I remember seeing footage of a guy water skiing behind a N and the airplane gets airborne and the guy on the skis eats it big time!!!! we figure 40+ mph easy.

Great pics August.............you related to any Horvaths in GA????

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:31 pm

Quote:

wasn't there a pic posted a few weeks ago off all these N3N fuselages lined up on some airbase.

I think this is the thread you were looking for:

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... chino+n3ns[/quote]

dors · **Posted:** Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:57 pm

Here is two shots i took of the Mid-Atlantic Air Museums N3N
BU2782
N44718

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:14 am

August, that is a good one..............If I cant find a pic of one in the air can I use yours for the header?????

Looking for a pic of the N with the Wright engine flying for the header.

k5083 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 9:22 am

N3Njeff wrote:

August, that is a good one..............If I cant find a pic of one in the air can I use yours for the header?????

Sure, but I also have a bunch of ground-to-air that you might like.

August

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:22 am

Here are a few shots form Geneseo this past year.

And a few from Thunder Over Michigan this summer.

I have several more I can post of these aircraft and several other N3N's from around the country.

More shots added:

From Yanks in Chino CA

And a not so great scan of a N3N at the USS Lexington Museum

Tim

kzollitsch · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:50 am

Looks like I was beat to it, but since I put the effort in of uploading these I'll post them anyways.

Geneseo 2006

N3Njeff · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 11:56 am

Tim, great pics!! can we use your Geneseo pic of the N flying. Cant get anymore stock than that (even the rare speed ring) Also can I use them in my yahoo group for the owners & pilots???

thanks for posting the one at the lex..........I had wondered where this one went to. It was a flying A/C in the 80's. I had heard that the owner Dick Ruedebusch had donated it to the Navy. At the time I wondered why, they had 2 on display in Pensacola and another in storage.
For your records, that one is former N6358T Bureau # 2959.

Anyone got the numbers of the aircraft at Yanks????

Feeling all warm and fuzzy with all the N pics...........keep them comming.

TimAPNY · **Posted:** Wed Dec 06, 2006 12:19 pm

N3Njeff wrote:

Tim, great pics!! can we use your Geneseo pic of the N flying. Cant get anymore stock than that (even the rare speed ring) Also can I use them in my yahoo group for the owners & pilots???

thanks for posting the one at the lex..........I had wondered where this one went to. It was a flying A/C in the 80's. I had heard that the owner Dick Ruedebusch had donated it to the Navy. At the time I wondered why, they had 2 on display in Pensacola and another in storage.
For your records, that one is former N6358T Bureau # 2959.

Anyone got the numbers of the aircraft at Yanks????

Feeling all warm and fuzzy with all the N pics...........keep them comming.

Jeff
Feel free to use them

Here is another from Geneseo this year I like and found

Tim

yakdriver · **Joined:** Mon May 17, 2004 11:58 am **Posts:** 127

I know the Coast Guard N3N very well. It is N1120 and I spent around 250hrs flying it around the northwest. It was origionally restored by Jack Tillman and bought by my uncle Gary Wolverton in 1986. I loved flying the old beast and had many adventures in it. I lost count of how many people I took up for thier first open cockpit experience. It got sold to a guy in Texas in 2000 and now it looks like it is still going strong in the Northeast.
The N3N is a great flying airplane and a real Cadillac copared to the Stearman. Four ailerons and everything on ball bearings. The narrow gear and tall skinny tires can be a handfull at times but it will handle a good stiff crosswind with a firm hand. As far as I know that is the only real N3N ring cowl in existance. I understand they only built twelve airplanes with cowls and they all went to the Coast Guard. Thanks for posting the pics and stirring the memories. Don

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