Gate Guards and Base Displays (not museums)

[ScottH711]

Found this outside of the Tri County airport in Woodland N.C.  It's seen better days.

Scott H

[Scout]

Found this one at a small airport in Missouri.  It looks like she has seen better days.

[Mickey]

Nice catch . It's an F-105B, serial 57-5819. The Thunderbirds did fly the F-105B, but this one wasn't one of them.

Apparently this one is being or has been restored recently. Hopefully they manage to paint it in the proper T-bird scheme .

Mickey

[Scout]

Mickey,

Thank you for the information and the link to the newspaper article.  I did some more research after your feedback and found that she is repaired and repainted - see photo below.  I'll see if I can get up there soon and see how she looks on guard again.  Click here for a photo by the company who actually did the painting.

David

[Mickey]

Thanks David. It looks better in more appropriate camo . Looking forward to your pictures!

Mickey

PS: Since it isn't your own picture, I have taken the liberty of modifying your post so there is link to it, instead of displaying the picture itself through hotlinking. Hope you don't mind .

[Scout]

Mickey,

Thanks for the help in the hot link.  I am sure that this is the more appropriate way of doing it.  I know just enough to get myself in trouble sometimes.   

I am going to try to get up there tomorrow.  Oh yeah - Road trip!

David

[Rob Guess]

Near the control tower of the St. Louis regional airport in Bethalto, IL

[BillF]

I was briefly stationed at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base in the 70's with these guys. Always good to see a Thud. This one on duty at Langley:





I got rid of the Eagle's stick:

[Mickey]

An air defense grey Thud...  They could have just looked at this one down the road for reference .

[Rob Guess]

Stumbled across this F-89 sitting in the weeds at Helena Regional Airport in Helena, MT. Was hoping for a shot of the EC-121 they have there but it was surrounded by buildings 

[Roger]

That looks to be in pretty good shape, wow!  Hope someone will take good care of it, must be a pretty rare specimen, I think.

Roger

[Rob Guess]

That looks to be in pretty good shape, wow! 
Roger

I think it belongs to the University of Montana School of Tech in Helena. I was in Helena for a job interview and was made one hell of an offer so i might get a chance to dig up more information on it in the future. I also saw the only remaining XA2D-1 Skyshark At Pacific Fighters in Idaho Falls but could not get a shot due to tall fences and bad backlighting

[phantomphan1974]

I think it belongs to the University of Montana School of Tech in Helena. I was in Helena for a job interview and was made one hell of an offer so i might get a chance to dig up more information on it in the future. I also saw the only remaining XA2D-1 Skyshark At Pacific Fighters in Idaho Falls but could not get a shot due to tall fences and bad backlighting

Yeah the Skyshark use to be out at Chino when Pacific was still there.  Interesting looking plane.  I wonder if they are restoring for flight or static?

[maskelyne]

Found this T-33 at the JROTC building at a San Angelo high school last week.

[WARPEE]

Mycole, I used to frequent Great Falls a lot...Where did they have that F-89 parked at?

If you went downtown, there's an F-102A in a kids playground...Fortunately they stuck that one up in the air, so the little tykes couldn't vandalize it...

At the truck stop across the road, I had an unrestricted view of that F-86...Fascinating to watch it move around that pole...Doesn't take much to amuse me, though...