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Re: Chino Update
Posted by Jim H on Fri Jan 18, 2002 04:52:23 PM
In reply top Re: Chino Update posted by Jerry W on Fri Jan 18, 2002 02:07:05 PM
: I was last there in October and agree the Yanks Air Museum
: is superb. Did you have a look around the storage area at
: the side of the restoration hangar? Wonderful stuff! And
: all those Stearmans lined up at the back.
:
: From your photo the P39 looks as it was in mid October and
: they told me then that it would likely fly before the end
: of 2001 but that there was no rush.
:
: Could your disassembling Beech have been the Locheed 12A N
: 93R? That was progressed nicely from between late August
: and mid October and now they seem to have got going on the
: Corsair.
:
: Re the Bearcats anyone know the ID of the natural one at t
: he back? When I was visiting there were quite a few of th
: e Tom Friedkin/Cinema Air collection in that hangar too as
: well as Bob Pond aircraft.
:
: Jerry W
If I remember correctly it was Charles Nichols goal to set up a mock production line of N3N's at the new facility. I remember a large number of N3N airframes on outdoor storage the last time I was there. There was also the tattered remains of a Kingfisher...great backyard!!
Jim