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Post by iwn on Jun 26, 2009 0:26:03 GMT 9
Greetings,
I haven´t found any information about the Dart displayed in Europe in its numerous aviation museums. Could it be that we haven´t any here?
At least the Dagger can be seen in Germany, Greece, Netherlands and in Turkey.
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Post by lindel on Jun 26, 2009 1:51:24 GMT 9
First off, Welcome to our hanger!
I've not heard of any Sixes being sent to Europe, other than a possible TDY. I don't think there were any sold to any other countries.
However, you have come to the right place and if any were sent to Europe, there will be someone here that knows.
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Post by Bullhunter on Jun 26, 2009 4:11:35 GMT 9
I spent 4 years in Germany and never heard of any and did not see any. But that was back in 1978-1982.
And I also welcome you to our forum.
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Post by iwn on Jun 26, 2009 21:45:22 GMT 9
Thank You,
USAF is really nicely represented in Duxford, GB, but unfortunately without the Dart. There are members of the Century Series in surprising places. A F-101 Voodoo for example can be seen in a museum in Speyr, Deutschland. I´ll keep looking.
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Jun 27, 2009 8:17:46 GMT 9
If you ever get the opportunity to go to England, take time to go to Duxford and the Royal War Museum - Air. It has a fantastic collection of American planes in the American Building. There are also lots of British planes and others in buildings. It includes a Bf109 that crash landed and is on display much like it was found. There are also lots of British transports, including a Concord, for you to walk through. There are workshops that are restoring any number of planes. Last time I was there they had just finished a B24. There are also a number of operational planes stationed there, some on loan by their owners. If it is a nice day, you will probably see some of them flying in the local area. Our first trip there, I got to see a P40 "beat up" the field and a P51 do it's thing. The pilot of the Mustang was a female. Hmmm. There was also a Navy F7F Tigercat that was getting ready to fly, but the weather got bad. Last trip there were two B17s on station and one of them flew. If you want to spend over $100, you can take a flight in a Pre-War DeHavilland Dragon Rapide bi-plane transport. I didn't. For the ground weapons there is also a large building that has vehicles, tanks and big guns dating from WW1 to the present. They even take some of the tanks out back and put them through their paces. Wonderful place. Would love to go there again. But No SIX. Bummer. Jim :god_bless_usa
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Post by Bullhunter on Jun 27, 2009 10:33:09 GMT 9
My wife will retire in 2 1/2 years and we are going to do some space-a flying. England is one of the places on our list with the air museum. Germany is also there as I want to visit the Sembach AB and Kaiserslauthen areas. My wife was an Army Nurse in Stuggartt so that is on our list also.
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Post by Mark O on Jun 27, 2009 11:46:06 GMT 9
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Post by iwn on Jun 30, 2009 4:03:00 GMT 9
Oh no, what an end for an aeroplane! So there is at least fragments in Europe...
I could swear that I saw a photo in some aviation magazine of a 106 in Germany in some private collection, but that could have been a F-102.
Yes, Duxford is really worth a visit. Several American classics in very fine condition.
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Post by jimpadgett on Jun 30, 2009 7:09:29 GMT 9
F-106s were deployed to Iceland from 87 FIS to stand alert when 57 FIS had an airframe availability problem with their F-4Es. This was in April 1977 and involved 4 aircraft. Geographically Iceland is a part of Europe in most quarters. However none remain there. Jim
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