The fresh fighter got spent most of its 12 ages in the musuem inside stores
In parece Robert “Bob” Axtell of Elizabeth, Texas gotten the new fighter, and that still got hardly over step one,500 era for the airframe. Axtell performed a number of most competition-centric improvement, together with a good stinger-layout tailcone, but never made an effort to contend with the aircraft plus it try kept in a great T-hangar within Jefferson County Airport (BJC) from inside the Broomfield, Texas. In , Exhibits/Selections Director Stewart Bailey, linked the author which have maintenance volunteer Dave Tomacek just who said whenever Axtell loaned the fresh Corsair to your museum it actually was a welcome introduction as at the time the fresh new art gallery had fewer than half this new routes it will today. 10 years afterwards but not, new range got grown up substantially and also the Corsair turned into a while regarding a good hinderance, which try moved to the shops for the Hangar 2, where they remained up to Axtell sold the latest routes to Warbird Lifestyle Base for the 2012.
Images thru Sean Roarty
The latest Corsair are stacked to your a trailer inside the late 2012 during the the brand new Wings Over the Rockies Art gallery due to brand new former Lowry AFB, Colorado.
Inside , mcdougal spoke which have Paul Wood about new WHF acquired and you will restored this new flights. “We were seeking a Corsair project for years and you will checked-out several ahead of finally getting this flights,” Timber told you. Leer Más
