48mms
F-106 Skilled
Currently: Offline
Posts: 115
Location:
Joined: January 2012
|
Post by 48mms on Jan 17, 2012 5:19:08 GMT 9
Looking for some affordable, full color, genuine FIS patches:
87th FIS
83rd FIS
27th FIS
15th FIS
11th FIS
449th FIS
456th FIS
440th FIS
If you have any to sell, sent a scan/price. I am unemployed but can drum up a few dollars here and there.
Thank you, Al
|
|
MOW
Administrator 
Owner/Operator
Currently: Offline
Posts: 5,821 
Location:
Joined: September 2003
Retired: USAF, Civil Service
|
Post by MOW on Jan 17, 2012 11:03:56 GMT 9
I'll be interested to see what you come up with. I ahven't looked in a long time, but after I finish with this TDY I'm on I'll look and see if I have any 87th around.
|
|
48mms
F-106 Skilled
Currently: Offline
Posts: 115
Location:
Joined: January 2012
|
Post by 48mms on Jan 17, 2012 11:37:39 GMT 9
Thank you. Back when I started collecting, the 87th wasn't that hard to find, but now I rarely see them for trade or sale. Cheers, Al
|
|
|
|
Post by Mark O on Jan 17, 2012 12:02:10 GMT 9
I got my 87th FIS patch by mailing a letter to the squadron, and asking for one! Amazingly, they sent it to me! I doubt there is a squadron in the USAF that will do that today! Shoot, when I was in the 40th AS we used to sell ours at airshows! We'd use the money for our party fund! It took me over 15 years of semi-serious looking to get a collection of just the F-106 squadrons. Most were found on eBay, and I don't even want to think of what I paid for them all together! Most are original, but I'm happy with the few repros I have. Sorry, none are for sale. Eventually I'll frame my collection.    |
|
48mms
F-106 Skilled
Currently: Offline
Posts: 115
Location:
Joined: January 2012
|
Post by 48mms on Jan 17, 2012 12:21:21 GMT 9
very impressive!
|
|
|
|
Post by LBer1568 on Jan 17, 2012 12:43:09 GMT 9
Great collection Mark. When did you start the collection?
|
|
|
|
Post by Mark O on Jan 17, 2012 13:06:11 GMT 9
Great collection Mark. When did you start the collection? Although at the time I didn't realize I had started a collection, I got the 87th FIS patch in 1981 when I was still in high school. I got a 318th around the same time after a personal visit to the squadron, and a couple more just before I left for basic in February, 1983. I got serious about building my collection in the late 90s when I was a Trooper in Colorado. I finally got an original 437th patch last month (the one in the photo is a bullion reproduction), but the last patch I needed was the 11th FIS which I got a couple years ago. (It's a repro, but very good.) It's still an ongoing thing, and received a couple new, unique additions to the collection this month in fact. (Thanks! You know who you are!) They're not in any of those photos, as are a few other odds-and-ends, but still F-106 related patches. |
|
MOW
Administrator
Owner/Operator
Currently: Offline
Posts: 5,821
Location:
Joined: September 2003
Retired: USAF, Civil Service
|
Post by MOW on Jan 17, 2012 22:51:45 GMT 9
|
|
|
|
Post by bear (Deceased) on Jan 18, 2012 1:07:06 GMT 9
I think you can get 87th and 11th from the KISawyer Museum, and 456th from the Castle Museum. I have 71st patches at 5.50 ea they are new and a copy from the 60's.
Bear
|
|
48mms
F-106 Skilled
Currently: Offline
Posts: 115
Location:
Joined: January 2012
|
Post by 48mms on Jan 18, 2012 5:34:41 GMT 9
Bear, PM sent.
|
|
48mms
F-106 Skilled
Currently: Offline
Posts: 115
Location:
Joined: January 2012
|
Post by 48mms on Jan 18, 2012 5:35:53 GMT 9
P.S. on the want list, add the 437th and 438th. I figure if I'm going to dream, dream BIG!
|
|
|
|
Post by Mark O on Jan 18, 2012 10:59:10 GMT 9
No I do not, but I can. I'm thinking scanning them would be easier, as well as show more detail, but I can set the camera up to do the same I suppose. I would just need to set up some decent lighting. Sounds like an easy project! I'll be heading up to North Dakota this weekend (I'll explain in another post) but can get on that soon for ya! |
|
48mms
F-106 Skilled
Currently: Offline
Posts: 115
Location:
Joined: January 2012
|
Post by 48mms on Jan 20, 2012 4:12:06 GMT 9
Update, added a 48th FIS to my site. Have a 318th FIS and an authentic 71st FIS in route.
|
|
48mms
F-106 Skilled
Currently: Offline
Posts: 115
Location:
Joined: January 2012
|
Post by 48mms on Jan 30, 2012 10:47:58 GMT 9
Update, have a 166th FIS and an 87th FIS in route.
|
|
|
|
Post by ma1marv on Jan 14, 2014 11:39:54 GMT 9
O K guys - I'm not lookiing for anything -per say - but while looking over the many comments about "Texas" I had a sort of flashback to many -MANY - years ago. Got me to thinking of being retired and having SO MUCH time on my hands!  Does anyone out there remember a TV commercial that used an aircraft in the background and the commercial was about floor wax?? In the commercial they made a statement - "Like the tough plastic on this canopy that protects the pilot - " I think the canopy was a F-106. To make the statement a bit more dramatic -the guy in the commercial uses a .45 Thompson machine gun to shoot at the canopy and we see the bullets bouncing off. Am I still having a flashback - or did this commercial really use an F-106?   Any one remember - is it still available to view? Now that there are a BUNCH of us old RETIREES with computers - AND a lot of time on our hands- Maybe this can be resolved! Have fun! MArv   |
|
|
|
Post by Jim on Jan 14, 2014 12:43:23 GMT 9
O K guys - I'm not lookiing for anything -per say - but while looking over the many comments about "Texas" I had a sort of flashback to many -MANY - years ago. Got me to thinking of being retired and having SO MUCH time on my hands! Does anyone out there remember a TV commercial that used an aircraft in the background and the commercial was about floor wax?? In the commercial they made a statement - "Like the tough plastic on this canopy that protects the pilot - " I think the canopy was a F-106. To make the statement a bit more dramatic -the guy in the commercial uses a .45 Thompson machine gun to shoot at the canopy and we see the bullets bouncing off. Am I still having a flashback - or did this commercial really use an F-106? Any one remember - is it still available to view? Now that there are a BUNCH of us old RETIREES with computers - AND a lot of time on our hands- Maybe this can be resolved! Have fun! MArv found this while searching under old canopy ads: www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/10/the-most-honored-photograph |
|
|
|
Post by Jim on Feb 12, 2015 2:41:48 GMT 9
Will pay 25.00 for an old 27thFIS patch in reasonable condition... Up to 75.00 for the large one that pilots wore on the leather jackets that were used to bring back some lost nostalgia and induce pilots to stick around awhile longer- or at least until the next RIF
|
|
