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Aircraft Damage list from Pensacola

Hi All,

Here is what we all have been trying to find out.

Following is a list of aircraft that suffered damage:

1. F-14 (Damage to port vertical stabilizer)
2. CT-39 (Vertical stabilizer damage)
3. KA-6D (Canopy blown off and destroyed/Damage to starboard wing fold)
4. HU-16 (Port float blown off and wing damaged)
5. P2V “Truculent Turtle” (Cockpit wind screening off and starboard hatch out)
6. SP-5B (Vertical stabilizer and rudder damage)
7. P-3 (Vertical stabilizer and rudder damage/Port wing access hatch out)
8. P-3 (Rudder blown off and antenna down)
9. AJ-2 (Damage to starboard elevator, port elevator, rudder, ailerons, and port tip tank)
10. EA-1F (Hole in starboard wing and rear canopy blown away)
11. A-4 (Damage to both wing tips, rudder, port aft fuselage, and dent in the nose cone)
12. A-7 (Canopy blown off and damage to starboard aileron)
13. EC-121 (Top radome blown away and damage to starboard wing and elevator)
14. TC-4C (Rudder and elevator damage as well as damage to the nose strut)
15. EA-3B (Tail damage and dent in aft radome)
16. C-118 (Aileron, rudder, and vertical stabilizer damage)
17. RA-5C (Starboard flap, nose section, and horizontal stabilizer damage)
18. R4D “Que Sera Sera” (Aircraft suffered tail wheel damage and an aileron and rudder were blown away. The port wing broke away and there us fuselage damage to the aircraft)
19. C-117 (Fuselage holed and damage to tail wheel and elevators)
20. C-131 (Wing scraped and damage to engine nacelle)
21. E-1B (Damage to port wing fold)
22. T-2C (Damage to pitot tube and trim tab)
23. T-38 (Horizontal stabilizers blown off)
24. PBJ (Damage to fabric on flaps and tail)
25. RF-4 (Forward canopy blown off and damage to starboard wing slat and leading edge f port wing)
26. JD-1 (Nose section blown off and damage to ailerons)
27. RC-45J (Damage to port aileron)
28. PBY (Damage to elevator fabric, aft section of the fuselage, nose turret, and port wing)
29. NU-1B (Tail section twisted approximately forty degrees, starboard wing off, and damage to tail)
30. PB4Y (Rudder blown off and damage to fuselage, cockpit canopy, tail and wingtip. Top hatch is missing and starboard outboard engine blown off the aircraft)
31. SP-2H (Aft stinger radar off and damage to ventral radome, and port wing and aileron)
32. S-2E (Damage to rudder, port elevator, and trim tab)
33. C-46 (Port and starboard aileron damage and also damage to rudder, trim tab, and elevator. Damage to access door)
34. F/A-18 (Port and starboard landing gear door damage)

Not good but as Buddy told me could have been alot worse.

Cheers Crazymainer

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By: turbo_NZ - 10th October 2004 at 05:40

When I first read that list, it sounded like everything was pretty much a write -off !!!!

Pleased to see that isn’t the case 🙂

That pic of the PB4Y’s engine and surviving airframe is a real eye-opener !! 😮

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By: crazymainer - 10th October 2004 at 05:32

Nope……….

Got any photos of the damaged Phantom? Will they scrap any of these planes or can they be fixeD?

Hi PhantomII,

First part of your question not yet give me a few days should have some of the ramp.

The second part to quote Buddy No F****** Way are we going to scrap anything that is damaged.

The list is very misleading most of the stuff is rather moderate damage. Only two aircraft are hurt bad.

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By: PhantomII - 10th October 2004 at 04:54

Got any photos of the damaged Phantom? Will they scrap any of these planes or can they be fixeD?

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By: Warhawk - 10th October 2004 at 01:55

From the WIX board.
http://tacticalblunder.com/g503/data/503/7Torn_engine.jpg

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By: crazymainer - 9th October 2004 at 15:32

No. 30 raised an eyebrow. Engine blown away by the wind??!

Hi DamienB,

The PB4Y was blown about 20 feet back into a group of aircraft when this happen the #3 engine still chain to the ground came off.

Over on the Wix board is a thread called overhead shot of Pensacola there is a photo of the engine.

All and All guys this could have been alot worse.

Because of Ivan the Navy meeting that I was working on has been post-pon till the spring. There are no Hotel rooms, the hotel that we were going to have the conferance in, well Buddy told me on Wensday it still has four feet of SAND 😮 in the room we were going to us.

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By: mmitch - 9th October 2004 at 15:15

Never-less the museum is reopening next week and selling the tee shirt. 🙂
http://www.aero-news.net/news/military.cfm?ContentBlockID=9f1f05e0-16d6-4263-9942-3222ab5fdbc8&Dynamic=1
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By: Cargomaster - 9th October 2004 at 05:13

That’s a pretty long list of damaged aircraft. 🙁
Does anyone know yet whther they’ll be able to repair all of them?

I’m really saddened as I had a superb visit to the NMNA back in February.

CargoM

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