Pima Air and Space Museum visit 2024

[panzerlite]

It's certainly well lit, allowing you to take pretty good pictures... (which is more than I can say for Wright Patterson...)

All my best... George

[Isaac]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

Thanks for the correction on the Piper i.d.

As you know, that's the chopper in which I did my first airmobile operation in 1962 in Korea.

Don

There is a fine example of the Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave with its front doors open.


Here is a picture I took at Ft Ruckers Al.




Sort of like the German WW2 ME 323 Gigant transport.



Thanks for the virtual visit Murph.


Isaac

[murphyaa]

Hangars 1 and 2 are combined inro one big building.


TL-Ultralight Stream, F-107, SR-71 & D-21


B-18 Bolo, and in case you were worried, they do have a complete A-10

The next building is the 390th Bomber wing museum, built around the B-17 "I'll Be Around"

B-17

On to Hangar 3

QH-50 Dash, when drone copters were cool, FW-44, B-24, A-26


Looks like a Fiseler Storch, but it's actually a Moraine Saulnier Criquet, IL-2 Sturmovich, Fritz X guided bomb, V-1


Beech AT-11, C-47 & Taylorcraft TG-6, Cessna Bobcat, Fairchild PT-26 being indiscreet


Douglas A-20 Havoc
More in the next one

[Don Boose]

Great photos.

No. 20: Douglas (vice Martin) B-26?

Don

[Texman]

Originally Posted by Don Boose

Great photos.

No. 20: Douglas (vice Martin) B-26?

Don

Douglas A-20

[murphyaa]

More of hangar 3


C-46, Hawker Hurricane, F4U Corsair, F-7 Tigercat

Moving on to Hangar 4.

For some reason, I never took a picture of the B-29 "Sentimental Journey", so here's a pic from the museum's website



Nakajima Ki-43, Tsurugi Ki-115, Yokosuka Ohka 1 seater, Yokosuka Ohka 2-seat trainer


Douglas A-24, Piasecki Hup-3, P-51, FM-2 Wildcat


Naval Air Factory N3N, Bell P-63

[murphyaa]

Originally Posted by Texman

Douglas A-20

You're right. I fixed it.

[murphyaa]

Next Hangar, 5, I think


Bristol Blenheim (Mark IV), PB4Y Privateer, P-40, Spitfire FR. XIVe


Avenger, PBY Catalna, B-25, and a mystery trainer, P-39 Airacobra


I can't remember or find what this one was.

Last building before heading outside is the gallery dedicated to UAVs and aerospace.


I thought this was cool, Space Shuttle cockpit simulator, Predator drone, Blackhawk converted into a UAV.


I bet this is an X-15 DHanners hasn't made yet (It's a mockup used as a construction guide for the building of the three X-15s that flew at Edwards Air Force Base), X-15 rocket engine.



Now to head outside where the air conditioning has been turned off for the year.

[Texman]

Mystery trainer is a T-6 Texan I believe. The next unknown is a Lockheed Lodestar.

Again, I reserve the right to be wrong

[Don Boose]

Great images, Murph!

I agree that the trainer is a T-6, specifically, AT-6B (rebuilt as anT-6G) 41-17246 (X-588): T-6 Texan, Harvard & SNJ Registry -A Warbirds Resource Group Site

Based on the shape of the nose (and the info at the link), I would call the other mystery ship a Lockheed R5O Lodestar: Pima Air and Space Museum R5O Restoration Update

Don