Hello
 
We have in Rio de Janeiro 3 Fokker aircrafts SS11 and SS12, year 1946 to sell.
 
Is there anyone interested, or someone that could give us information on current prices of ac like these?
 
Thanks
 
Jorge Valentim
 
jvalenti@uol.com.br

Thank you oh so very much for your picture of the P-38 control panel that I have spent hours searching the web for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am attempting to locate recordings/text of songs sung by fighter pilots during the Korean War. "Itazuke Tower", "Throw a Nickel on the Grass", etc. If anyone knows a source for them, please let me know. Thanks!

Hello...I'm searching the worlds air museums for some kingfisher OS2U parts: starboard wing, engine cowls, canopy. Any ideas? Thanks.

My partner and I had the privilege of visiting your museum last weekend (10/22/00) and I just wanted to tell you again how much we enjoyed it. Keep up the great work! Be sure to let us know the next time you fly some of your planes, we'll be there!

Great site

If the Bureau number of your TBM is 69459 I flew in it while it was assigned to FASRON77 Naples, Italy. It was then a TBM3R and was used for COD (carrier on board delivery)The last carrier landing I made in this aircraft was 1 march 1954. The pilot was Lt Kannheiser and the ship was the USS Midway. The last flight I made in the aircraft was a round trip to Malta with Lt Oddo. The plane captains accompanied the aircraft and operated the APS4 radar. We had 6 TBM3Rs and operated all over the Med carrying out Mail, Parts and people. We could carry 5 pax, stowing mail and cargo in specially fitted bombay containers. The TBM was a reliable aircraft sometimes plagued by mysterious hydraulic failures. The Wright R2600 was good for 600 hrs TBO but usually replaced earlier due to high oil consumption.

I'M RESEARCHING THE CRASH OF MY UNCLE LT. PAUL B. SLATEN WHO WAS KILLED ON JULY 6TH ,1943. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE 97TH BOMBARDMENT GROUP ,414TH SQUADRON. HE WAS SERVING IN NORTH AFRICA AT THE TIME OF THE CRASH.HIS B-17 NUMBER WAS 42-301212.I WOULD LIKE TO TALKED TO ANYONE THAT WOULD HAVE KNOW MY UNCLE OR MEMBER OF HIS CREW. THANKS

Great site, would love to visit one day. Can I leave a quick note to let you know that The Wartime Memories Project web site, http://www.wartimememories.co.uk has just been updated. A huge thank you to every one who has submitted their recollections so far.
 
If you would like to add your war time memories to the project please call by the web site or contact me by e-mail.
 
Best Wishes Angela

I was stationed in final crew phase training at Biggs Field, El Paso, Tx in June--July ---August 1943. We flew B24s out of Biggs.

I was browsing the web looking for something about F84f's and happened upon your sight. I was at Eglin AFB in the Fighter test Squdron when we got the first F84F's. I went to Edwards AFB California with a flight of F84F's when we were having in flight engine failures at Eglin. I was on the crew of an F model that crashed on takeoff from Eglin killing Captain Galt. We stayed at Edwards about 3 months. This was about 1954. It was a good opportunity to see the X-1 and other exotic aircraft of that era. Shortly afterward I was transferred to Itazuke AFB Japan on earlier model F 84's whose mission was to carry atom bombs to the enemy if it became necessary. I never knew if the F model ever saw combat.

Am looking forward to visiting your fine museum. It appears that you have some really way cool aircraft on display and in restoration. Keep up the good work!

I have been here before and really liked it and my favorite plane was the DC3 over this summer of 2000 i can here. One way i got to come here is by my uncle who lives by here. Also my uncles friend flys out of here.

I am looking for anyone who served with vmf(n)534 on guam during wwll or knew Lt.Harley Eugene Croft who flew with them.He was shot down on a mission and spent four days in the sea before being rescued.I have obtained some information from the Marine Corps but it is very vague.HELP!

Being a student of WW2 [Dad was at DDay (Omaha Beach)] , I have become interested in the Forgoten War. I have just seen the connection from the end of WW2 to the beginnings of the Korean War. The Soviets will to dominate other countries even though she had gone through the same thing. It makes you think were the two powers Nazis & Communists all that different? I dont think so!

great site

Indeed, what a thrill to find this website. Since this is the 50th anniversary of the Korean "Conflict", I'm sure there will be a lot of Korean veterans who will enjoy this museum. I want to bring my father out to see it one day. He was a Crew Chief for six F-84 fighter/bombers out of Kunsan,Korea (474th Fighter/Bomber Wing & the 430th Fighter/Bomber Squadron) during the war. I am thrilled to see our nation honoring these men of the "Forgotten War" during this 50th anniversary. God Bless American!

What a thrill to come across that Old J-3. The memories of cutting didos over corn fields and rivers of Southern Illinois with an occasinal pasture landing just for the fun of it. I hope there are J-3s in heaven just to chase angels with my old flying buddy! I will fly from the back seat. I will shoot some landings with you again. Meanwhile God Bless and thanks for memories. Bob Murray an old Korean Vet

My book "Last Raid" tells of mission to Berlin 3 Feb.,'45 plus other stories, photos, paintings, etc. Available thru web address above. Reviewed by mag Aviation History, 3/97. Think you would enjoy. Cheers! Bob

Looks like a wonderful place to visit. Just found out about you all from a friend who flies thru there.

Love the ole' planes. Keep 'em flying.
 
Terri

Thanks the great web site. Next time while in NM I will stop by for a tour. Next time you are in Minot, stop by ours, the Dakota Territory Air Museum. Our limited sweepstakes fund-raiser this year is a beautiful 1948 Cessna 140.

My great-uncle, Capt. Otis Perkins of Lawrence Kansas, flew with 75th Joint Assault Signal Company, Army Air Corps (he was a "bird-dog") on New Guinea, Philippines, Saipan, Marshall Islands, and Leyte (also at Hickam Field, Oahu Dec 7). KIA Okinawa, April 29, 1945. Body never recovered. I am looking for any info re: 75th Joint Assault Signal Company. Pls e-mail me if any suggestions.

I visited your museum three times in the early 90's. And my wife twice. The first time Carl Wright took me there after we went flying in his airplane. Very neat museum. I enjoyed seeing everything. We took friends to see it when they came to visit us when we lived in El Paso and was on staff of two Baptist churches in E.P. Please give our regards to our dear friends ,Carl and Elsie Wright. We understand Carl is volunteering some time there now. These days here in Germany are days of many remerberances as they are remembering many of the things that happened here 55 + years ago. Best regards to all of you and keep up the good work. Bob and Sally Bade

Im from Santa Teresa and,I have flown into your airstrip before.My grandfather has also flown for one of your air shows (Walter Lieber), ever since i was 8 i used to go up to youre museum about once a month. i love the older prop planes and dog fighters

Please use this link to our website.
 
Thank you
 
Hans Georg Schmid

I'm only 16, but I have an obssesion with the korean war. My grand father (John Parker) served there in the R.A.A.F, 22nd squadron, flying frequent missions over North Korea. If anyone reading this happens to know my grandfather, please send me a message!!!!

I'm a former rigger/airframe mechanic and I cut my teeth on Tiger Moths in the RCAF circa 1943-45 and I'm interested in general info you may have.
 
Regards
Dex

I am a four year veteran of the Korean War era, Serving with the USAF at K-13 Air Base, Suwon, Korea during 1952-1953 with Hdqrs. Sqdn. Sec., 8th Ftr. Bmr. Sqdn. Pilots flew P51 Mustangs, F80 Shooting Stars, F94s, F86 Saber Jets.

Have been to the museum several times and it is an inspiration to anyone that is interested in flying and also restoration of this era of aircraft. Always enjoy coming.

Really enjoyed visiting your site especially as we have a lot in common, thankyou

Great work. May there always be people that are dedicated to the history of aviation as you are
 
I have your site bookmarked. Love the old aircraft, especially the warbirds.
 
Started in Naval Aviation in 1943, finished up career in 1969.Have had the honor of flying and meeting some of the
 
greatest aviators ever. Thank you for this opportunity
 
to see history being preserved.

Congratulations on your page. Aviation has always fascinated me since my youth.
 
During WWII I was living in Northeast Brazil - Recife where there were american air bases. My father worked for the U.S.E.D. as an interpreter-clerk and we lived near his work. I spent many hours watching the planes activities around.
 
Well, time has past and today I am a helicopter pilot already retired but still flying for the oil business people down here in Rio.
 
Thanks for the opportunity.
 
Evio

first time to this site

I have an item which I would like to see if there is interest in from someone here. My aunt was a 2nd Lt. in the Army/Air Force and ran the officer's mess on Oahu after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She befriended all of the members of Squadron 214, the Black Sheep Squadron, including Col. Boyington. A young man there hand drew in ink the emblem which would become the official emblem used on the aircraft of the BSS. She requested that he save it for her, which he did and she had it framed and displayed for many years. When she passed away, she left it for me. It is in wonderful condition and I have much documentation of her time in the service via letters, clippings, pictures, etc...I would simply like to know if anyone is interested in an item such as this or knows how it might be authenticated. I am not attempting in any way to gain interest in it for profit. My only thought is that it may be an interesting piece of military aviation history.

I am glad that there are good websites like these.

I would like to submit a poem that I believe your web guests will appreciate.It was written in 1944 by my Father while stationed at Buckley Field Air Force Base, Aurora,Colorado while his cadre was waiting to be sent into the Pacific.
 
"TWILIGHT"
 
Silently squat the heavies.
 
Shrouded by drifting nocturnal mists
 
Inert Somnolent
 
Huge seventeens and twenty-fours
 
dwarfed by a majestic twenty-nine.
 
Hen and her brood.
 
But, stay! For they will shake
 
down the stars with their thunder
 
in the coming dawn.
 
...and hasten the Ragnarok*. -by Hartley Barry,1944
 
*Ragnarok- from "Twilight of the Gods"from Norse mythology about the final destruction of the world in conflict between the gods.