Kermit off to see his Boeing 100 Project now

He could certainly do with a bigger shed! But a 25 year project, that’s dedication.
mmitch.

In other words, Weeks’ and the ex-Hughes are rebuilds…(In the same way that many virtually all new Spitfires and Mustangs are technically rebuilds).

A friend has one of the P-12Bs on order…it is, as I understand it, several years late (or behind schedule).

Roy Rehm has 8 Boeing 100/P-12/F4B projects – this includes Kermit Weeks’ Boeing 100, the Howard Hughes Boeing 100A, three F4B’s (of different variants) and three P-12’s (of different variants). Kermit’s Boeing 100 will be the first to be completed/flying. The second one that will head out the door is an F4B-1 that is owned by Bill Allen (Allen Airways Flying Museum), and the third aircraft to be completed is an F4B for Jerry Yagen (Military Aviation Museum). The owner of the fourth example in line, a P-12B, is located in Spokane, Washington. The fifth in line is the P-12 advertised on Platinum Fighter Sales, owned by Øyvind Ellingsen. I believe the Howard Hughes Boeing 100A, currently being done for Roy Rehm himself (pending future possibility of sale), could be considered the sixth, with the last two examples being an F4B-2 and P-12C also owned by Kermit Weeks.

Even though all of these aircraft are almost entirely newly-built, they are just absolutely perfect and period-correct in every detail, down to the rivets, screws and fasteners, and each variant with all of their individual production differences – they aren’t replicas, they’re newly-manufactured clones.

I saw it immediately after it was wrecked during Hurricane Andrew in 1992. I happened to arrive at Kermit’s hangar when he was using heavy equipment to lift the collapsed roof from his aircraft (miraculously, the Corsair and Duck escaped with fairly minor damage).
There was a twisted ball of tubing on one side of the hangar. It was so mangled and beyond identification I had to ask one of Weeks’ men what it was (Kermit was a bit busy and looked a bit grouchy…no wonder considering the state of his aircraft and facility…so I thought it best if I didn’t ask him directly).

I’m pretty sure Mr. Weeks doesn’t remember me despite making a rather dramatic entrance via a borrowed (long story) USAF HH-60.

one of the air frames currently for sale here : http://www.platinumfighters.com/boeingp-12