We need some pics of those too
I'm on my final 6 month countdown to purchasing a GT. Just contacted my bank, will start seriously hunting before Thanksgiving if everything goes well
Just had my salvaged 2005 delivered
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We need some pics of those too
I'm on my final 6 month countdown to purchasing a GT. Just contacted my bank, will start seriously hunting before Thanksgiving if everything goes well
Best place to see my airplanes is at aircombatmuseum.com Just added a 1928 Stearman C3B last week.
donnymac
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Agree. Solid red is wicked like no other. If I was adding, that would be my pick.
Nice museum. F4U and P-51 - my all time favs.
timcantwell
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I don't mean to hijack this thread, but since others have shown interest in your Corsair I thought I'd mention a small connection I had to your aircraft decades ago. I see from other internet sites that "Flying Nighmare" is apparently an ex-Bob Bean/Honduran Corsair. I grew up a mile north of the duster strip between Tolleson and Glendale, AZ where Bean stored 20 Corsairs he bought surplus. As a wide-eyed kid I watched as they towed them over from the Litchfield NAS boneyard. For years, my friend Gary (who some of you met at VIR) and I would ride our bicycles over and sit in the cockpits and dream! My Dad kept his airplane there, so we didn't even have to sneak in. Gary's older brother had flown Corsairs in the USMC, so they were a bit more special to us than some of the other very interesting aircraft that made this little dirt strip home at one time or another over the years (Ford Tri-Motor, A-26, B-25, T-6/SNJ, P-51, Spartan Executive, Staggerwing Beach, and Bearcat - Mira Slovak's "Smirnoff" racer - come to mind off the top of my head).
As I recall, it wasn't long after their arrival that some of the Corsairs began disappearing. I never saw any of them leave, but at the time the local rumor was that they had gone to "South American revolutionaries" and that the feds eventually put a stop to it. It was years later before I learned that they'd actually gone to Honduras. The remaining 10 Corsairs sat for many years until the late '60's/early '70's when they were offered for sale for $17K as is, or $19.5K with a ferry permit, if my memory is correct. By that time I was a Lt. in the USAF and couldn't afford one at that price (which I considered a bargain, even then), so I tried to convince my Dad to buy one - he wanted no part of it!! This photo was taken when I was home on leave for Christmas 1971 - there were seven or eight remaining then. If yours was a Honduran Corsair, it of course would have been long gone years earlier. The bare metal aircraft in the photo already had some work done for a prospective or pending sale.
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I believe my Corsair came back from Honduras in 1984 so it was there for quite some time.
I had the same discussion with my dad in 1974. There was a P-51 for sale at Oshkosh for 64,000 and my dad just had the family home appraised for the same amount. I tried to get him to sell the house and buy the Mustang.
He finally sold that house for 130,000 in 1999 while the P-51 would of been worth over a million by then. He should of listened to me, but he did want me to explain where the seven of us would live if we had the airplane instead of the house.
There has been a lot of questionable characters in the early Warbird industry especially when some of those South American Countries (and Israel) desired some of our recently surplussed fighters. I have heard stories of DC-6's flying south very low with 4 fighters tucked in just below them. I have been told some of it was with approval from the government and some not. Once again could be just stories.
My Corsair is very original with a working gun sight and mostly complete gun bays, only missing the guns and the trays they mounted to. Mustang has the guns in the bays with fake ammo and even the solenoids for the guns work when I pull the trigger.
Checked on the GT again yesterday and we are getting real close. The front and rear glass should be done Monday (installer was injured so minor delay), then the fenders can go back on.
I just emailed Andrew for mats, switch blade key and seat inserts. I have been promised next week by my painter.
So far still on budget.
I had the same discussion with my dad in 1974. There was a P-51 for sale at Oshkosh for 64,000 and my dad just had the family home appraised for the same amount. I tried to get him to sell the house and buy the Mustang.
He finally sold that house for 130,000 in 1999 while the P-51 would of been worth over a million by then. He should of listened to me, but he did want me to explain where the seven of us would live if we had the airplane instead of the house.
There has been a lot of questionable characters in the early Warbird industry especially when some of those South American Countries (and Israel) desired some of our recently surplussed fighters. I have heard stories of DC-6's flying south very low with 4 fighters tucked in just below them. I have been told some of it was with approval from the government and some not. Once again could be just stories.
My Corsair is very original with a working gun sight and mostly complete gun bays, only missing the guns and the trays they mounted to. Mustang has the guns in the bays with fake ammo and even the solenoids for the guns work when I pull the trigger.
Checked on the GT again yesterday and we are getting real close. The front and rear glass should be done Monday (installer was injured so minor delay), then the fenders can go back on.
I just emailed Andrew for mats, switch blade key and seat inserts. I have been promised next week by my painter.
So far still on budget.