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Re: Aero News reports "Glamorous Glen III", not "Obsession"
Posted by Tim Savage on Thu Sep 06, 2001 10:41:31 PM
In reply top Aero News reports "Glamorous Glen III", not "Obsession" posted by Jim on Thu Sep 06, 2001 10:31:38 PM
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: Aero News reports that "Obsession" pilot Jeff Michaels was
: flying N551CB "Glamorous Glen III" when the accident happ
: ened. Both aircraft are based in Salisbury, NC.
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: Below is part of the article with a history of N551CB:
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: Glamorous Glen III is painted as a companion aircraft to O
: ld Crow. It is owned by Gary Honberrier (Old Crow is NASCA
: R tem owner Jack Rousch's machine). Its home base is Rowan
: County Airport, in Salisbury (NC); and locals tell us its
: regular pilot is Caudle. (Obsession is kept nearby, at Ji
: m Michaels's private strip.)
: In earlier iterations, Glamorous Glen III has carried diff
: erent paint, insignia, and N-numbers. S/N 45-11381N first
: shows up in the registry as N5471V, in the early 1960s. It
: was crashed in 1981, we hear, by Ed Browning; and it was
: rebuilt in 1983 as racer Flying Undertaker, #66 (C-GRLR, o
: wned by Ritchie Rasmussen). In 1985, it wore two numbers,
: N151MR (for owner Mickey Rupp), and later as N551CB, its c
: urrent tail number, for Connie Bowlin. The machine was reg
: istered to its present owner (listed as Carrier Aviation I
: nc) in 1990.
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I stand corrected, I was just putting two and two together and came up with Michael's airplane...