av8tor
History Buff
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Post by av8tor on Sept 12, 2007 20:42:04 GMT -5
Hello Milspec, Sorry it took a while, I hope you had a nice summer. Anyway, I was able to find a picture of my AA-1A Yankee from boxes that was stowed for many years. It was an ex PAL trainer that I got and restored to flying condition. I established a flying club/flight school in Manila during the mid 80's. As you can see, the canopy is original but the windshield replaced by high grade flexi-glass formed by the mechanic "Mang Maning". I got to give credit to the ingenuity of the old man, I don't know where he is now or if he's still alive. Such kind of replacement was accepted there, but not so with the FAA here. One of the main landing gear was damaged on one occasion, guess where I got the replacement? From the fuselage of the AA1-A that's on top of the Hard Rock Cafe in Manila! ;D Yes, there was this plane that was placed so it appears to have crashed onto the building, we climb and got that one straight part and I paid the owner 1,000 pesos for that. Quite a bargain because someone was selling me 10k for it . Although the AA1-A was primarily built for the civilian market, several African and South American armed forces used it, I assumed for primary training. And No, I was not a military aviator. I am a civilian Flight Instructor and I had a Cessna that I owned for about nine years here. My military service with Uncle Sam was with a Naval Aviation unit as a ground maintenance crew. The Grumman Yankee AA-1A, me in my younger days.
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Post by VeeVee on Sept 13, 2007 6:39:41 GMT -5
I wonder if that C47 in the background still flies Good shot of you Donald. Post more pictures
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Post by adroth on Sept 13, 2007 11:22:28 GMT -5
According to my friend these pictures were taken at Basa Airbase in Floridablanca Pampanga. The LTV F-8Hs were parked at the edge of the flightline. These are actually being sold for scrap. They became too expensive to operate, and were later damaged by Mt Pinatubo. www.hueybravo.net/Airforcepage/f-8sale.htmA Timawan actually showed updated pictures of the F-8s. They have already been cut up.
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Post by milspec on Jul 31, 2008 16:46:55 GMT -5
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Post by milspec on Mar 29, 2009 6:10:45 GMT -5
Greetings Gentlemen, I found a couple of old pictures of Philippine Airforce Aircraft taken in the early 90's. North American T-28D "Trojan" A.K.A. "Tora-Tora" North American-Rockwell (now Boeing) OV-10 "Bronco" Lockheed C-130 "Hercules" milspec
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cco23i
History Student
"But I don't wanna go back to the States"
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Post by cco23i on Mar 29, 2009 11:04:33 GMT -5
Man oh man is that 26 N-I-C-E!!!!
Scott
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Post by VeeVee on Mar 30, 2009 5:46:11 GMT -5
I remember the big 1989 coup in Manila. I watched those Tora-tora planes dive bomb Camp Aguinaldo and the TV station with rockets. I thought they were SBD Dauntless dive bombers!
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Post by lancealoft on Oct 26, 2009 20:34:56 GMT -5
Does anyone know of a P51 (salvageable) in the Manila area that may be for sale?
I recently met a philipino man who said there was one near Manila at a museum or near a museum?
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Post by Bubble Top on Jun 24, 2010 17:56:30 GMT -5
The Former PAF P51 that used to be in the original PAF Museum. As it is now in Taiwan
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Post by frank on Jun 28, 2010 13:26:50 GMT -5
Thanks for posting the photo of the pinoy OFW P-51.
What is the name of the museum? Does it have a URL?
There is an aviation museum in the CKS Interanational Airport area. Is this where the plane is at?
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Post by milspec on Sept 15, 2010 19:58:53 GMT -5
Greetings Frank, I Don't know where this museum is. A friend just e-mailed me this photo of the the former PAF Museum P51. Here are two pictures of a PAF Lockheed T-33 that has been mounted on a pylon and is currently on display at Clark AB. My friend says that he saw this photo in a web site about Clark AB. milspec
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Post by Ryan on Jan 2, 2011 21:47:32 GMT -5
any body who knows selling junk plane like p51d mustang, mitsubishi zero, grumman, spitfire, huricane pls email me at rj_islandboy@yahoo.com thanks
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Post by frank on Jan 3, 2011 18:55:02 GMT -5
Hello Island boy.
How much can you pay for the junk plane you are interested in. Or are you looking for scale models?
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Post by mustang on Jan 19, 2011 0:15:01 GMT -5
Greetings again, Here is the website for the Philippine Air Force Museum or should I say the Philippine Air Force Aerospace Museum. I wonder what kind of aerospace assets the PAF has. www.paf.mil.ph/UNITS/pafmuseum/pafmuseum.htmlMilspec I believed the name should be Museum only.. not aerospace.
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Post by mustang on Jan 19, 2011 0:17:50 GMT -5
The Former PAF P51 that used to be in the original PAF Museum. As it is now in Taiwan anybody knows the story of this? Manila to Taiwan..
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Post by mustang on Jun 9, 2011 5:31:42 GMT -5
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