Meddle:
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Tks for the info & data.That nature DNA will prob show S.W Missouri, Midwest USA area since it spent there some 15 yrs or so.
FAS FG-1D Folks: Good Day! It was some 79 degrees (F) & sunny in the Midwest today..for Aug temps… that’s a plus around here!
Back to our FAS 201 tale. Did Lt. Gilberto Sanchez Ponce come back to fly FAS 201 once fixed?? Did FAS 201 got fix in place?? We do not believe so. By March ’58 when the fund$$ were authorized for the repair FAS was also struggling with FG-1D parts & maintaining the 19 aircraft already at home. Five more airframes were ordered just for parts plus the repair of FAS 201 c. March ’58. The five spare FG-1Ds took a long time to arrive, so long that FAS was forced to contract IRAN maint for about 7 aircraft of the fleet with SALAS of Costa Rica c.May ’60, (Now COPESA) plus placing some 10 aircraft in long temp outdoor storage. Drawing via AEC. c. 2012. 2 B Cont…
B-26 Invader Folks:
Some serious B-26 player pulled this shot out of his hat!! The original FAEC (Cuban Armed Forces) B-26 samples . Poss late 1950s. Campo Libertad. Cuba.Photo nick eoselon. Via Wix.Tks a lot. The best we have seen so far!! We are still looking for the Grand Cayman stash. -)
Ecourt:
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I think our research story began somewhere in here. Poss the Alabama ANG tarmac. Not sure for now, maybe someone else can id the place. c. 60s. Photo Life Magazine.
p.s …How the elusive FG-1D FAS 201, poss Buno 67087 looked after its landing accident (ground loop), at El Paso Municipal Airport c. May 1957.
Then, the saga of its whereabouts began here after being left semi-abandoned on a far away tarmac corner for a year or so. The aircraft did not just go “puff” into the thin air as originally told. The level of aviation research/details are there, for the F4U/FG-1D folks & IPMS modelers…if an effort is made. Quite by chance, we made a few findings for this audience to see & decide! Tks for a few F4U FP Forum folks that provided details,drawings & pics fm across the pond to make things a bit more clear. Photo B. Baker. c. May ’57.
SJet:
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True! I believe the photographer was showing the variety of a/c, to include WW II types in the area. There were 2 /3 more Vampires if diff stages of restoration, plus some other a/c converted into drones in the area. The poc in the area was a guy named W. McDonald. Included for your F-86 archives an F-86K FAH 1001 55-XXXX for now of the FAH surplus inventory. SPS base. c. Summer 2008. I like those NMF a/c with shark mouths!! Photo Oscar J. Elvir via FMAH.
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