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Re: The Fighter Collection
Posted by Jim H on Thu Feb 28, 2002 12:14:57 PM
In reply top Re: The Fighter Collection posted by John S on Thu Feb 28, 2002 10:49:09 AM
: Gareth,
:
: There are a number of projects that are under rebuild as y
: ou mention.
: These are as I recall,
: P-51C (DX)
: Sea Fury (DX)
: Gladiator (DX)
: Beaufighter (DX) - long term, have heard that it could be
: 10 years before this is complete
: Airacobra (Chino) - don't know much about this one, prehap
: s one of the US guys could help ??
: Hurricane (Hawker Restorations) - this is apparently movin
: g along apace
: Falco (Italy) - another long term project, not many detail
: s
:
: and of course
: 2x Yak.3 - one for TFC and the other for OFMC. I have read
: somewhere that the OFMC is marketing the Yak for bookings
: later in the year.
:
: and once these are finished there are a number of others w
: aiting in the wings like,
: Mosquito - stored
: Fiat G.59 - no idea
: La.11 - stored
: Ki.43 - Just a bunch of mangled sections apparently
: Spitfire RK858 - no idea about the future of this one, it
: was going to be restored by HFL at one point but this fell
: through when HFL was being taken over.
: Spitfire PK624 - this has been started but is now stored
: P-36 - Again just a bunch of bits apparently
:
: in addition to these I do recall there being mention of mu
: ltiple examples of both I-16 Rata's and I-153 Chaika's und
: er restoration in the former USSR. In fact I believe they
: were listed as survivors in WW Directory ver.2 or 3, but n
: o details recently.
:
: as well as all of the above the TFC did have a P-40E proje
: ct up for sale. I think this was recovered from Russia.
: Don't know the current status of this one.
:
: I also remember reading somewhere that an Me.109 would not
: be operated by TFC due to its "interesting" handling qual
: ities.
:
: I hope all of these aimless ramblings are in some way usef
: ul,
:
: John
The latest A/C has a photo of the P-39...starting to take shape again...although along way from being whole.
jim