Pima Air and Space Museum visit 2024

[murphyaa]

Originally Posted by 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

Some quick research (digging through my post history here from previous Pima trips and googlification) says it's a C-60 Lodestar painted in Royal Netherlands Air Force markings.

They do have their R5O Lodestar out though

[FRD]

There are only 7 DASH's in various states of restoration currently displayed in museums, Pima has one of the seven, we have one of the seven and the Smithsonian has one of the seven.

[Don Boose]

Good info, Murph. Thanks.

Don

[murphyaa]

Outside time. Bring lots of water, and I highly recommend the tram tour.


F-8 Crusader and F-9F Cougar, EA-6B Prowler, RA-5 Vigilante, Navy Trainers Row


Gloster Meteor, English Electric Lightning, McConnell F2H Banshee, FJ-4 Fury


More trainers, T-34 Mentor, TC-12 Huron, Pink Tornado


Northrop F-5 Aggressor, B-36 from really far away, Fokker C-31 Troopship, Lockheed VC-121 "Columbine"


P-3 Orion, VC-137 "Air Force One", Douglac VC-118 "Air Force One"

[murphyaa]

Outside, part deux


F-86H, F-86L, Century series lineup, another F-4 Phantom


F-106, F-103, F-105, F-105 family version


OV-1 Mohawk aggressively hiding an OV-10D, Budd Conestoga still looking lost and forlorn, Northrop YC-125 Raider, Sikorsky S-43


Grumman Albatross, Beechcraft UC-45, C-130 with snowshoes, Super Guppy from behind


Douglas C-133, C-123, C-124, AP-2H Neptune

[murphyaa]

Still outside


KC-97, S-2F "Stoof", E-1B "Stoof With a Roof", KB-50


KC-135, EA-1F Skyraider, B-47, EC-121


B-52, B-58, WB-66, YEA-3A


Vark, Another look at the Piper Enforcer, NB-52A Mothership fresh from the paint shop, Border Control P-3 Orion

R5D Lodestar, HU-25 Guardian, Another Grumman Albatross?, SOFIA 747

[murphyaa]

Almost done. We just have the Visitors section, and whirlybirds. Tomorrow though.

[ReynoldsSlumber]

The RA-5 should really be more famous than it is. As a bomber turned recon platform, it set the literal mold for so many subsequent fighters and fighter-bombers (and even one medium-large bomber): 2-D (rectangular) variable geometry inlets on the sides behind the cockpit, twin aft engines, shoulder-mounted wings, clipped delta-ish wing planform, heads-up display, and more. The main thing it's missing is twin tails, though apparently during the design process the North American engineers considered that as well before they went with a folding single tail. The one big miss was that rear eject bomb bay, d'oh.

[ReynoldsSlumber]

An update of your Guppy plans to that Super Guppy would be pretty sweet, nudge nudge wink wink

[airdave]

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

Don, I wish there was a dedicated section just for "the life and times of the great Don Boose"
where I could view all your fabulous photos and hear all you personal history.
I can not remember all the things you've revealed here over the years,
but I love it every time you post a photo augmented tidbit.

...
That first photo Murph posted of the F-51 (modified) appears to be a turbine powered?
Oh, Piper Enforcer.
So not a Mustang.
But thats a Mustang tail, isnt it.