Navy Warbird

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I was pre-flighting the sierra pop after some forgettable BBQ in KGLE when this puppy rolled up.

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He parked and I went over to suck up.
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Pristine.
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Peakin' the head in.
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Here's the 'pit
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Quite a C-45, eh?

1942. He said he and his wife own it and it's based out of Sulfur Springs.

Enjoy.
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Fantastic pics!

That's a Lockheed something or rather, isn't it?

Notice the props-throttles-mixture configuration on the power quadrant that was prevalent on a lot of light-medium twins back in the day.
 
Thanks for the words, gents.

Dough, it's a C-45 (beech 18).


Notice the feather (red) buttons in the overhead console. I just read an article that he added those during the 2 year restoration.

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What a beautiful plane. Ok, so I have a question. Can anyone buy old Navy or military planes? If I wanted to, could I go down to Arizona and pick me up an F-14 from the graveyard? I thought that there were all of these secrets etc., with military planes and that civilians couldn't buy them.
 
SkyCougar said:
What a beautiful plane. Ok, so I have a question. Can anyone buy old Navy or military planes? If I wanted to, could I go down to Arizona and pick me up an F-14 from the graveyard? I thought that there were all of these secrets etc., with military planes and that civilians couldn't buy them.
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The short answer is no you can't purchase any aircraft at the graveyard in az. Weather it be a cessna or f14 they will not let you. My suggestion is to call your senator and inquire about getting a used military aircraft.
 
What a beautiful bird, Great photos.

I always get suckered in by the bare aluminum scheme.:)
No more of that with the new composite airframes! *sigh*
 
We had two C-45's at the Temple airshow earlier this year. I paid for a ride in one, Beech Baby she was called. Nice planes, but the one you saw is in much better shape.
 
Beautiful airplane! Really nice job on the restoration! I have always loved the C-45/B-18 series of airplanes and I feel fortunate to have flown one in my career.

Nice to see that he has three gear safe lights on the lower center console than the standard one light for all three.

Again, beautiful bird!

Cheechako said:
Too many friggin' levers on that throttle quadrant!
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It's not that bad... :D

For those inquiring minds that want to know... the levers are cowl flaps (left side by your right leg), manifold heat (under props), and oil shutters (under mixtures). With the exception of the cowl flaps, you hardly touch the others unless it is cold outside.

Manifold heat works very similar to carb heat and the oil shutters control butterfly valves located in the wing root that control the amount of air that gets to your oil cooler. The engines have huge oil coolers (the R-985 tops off at 8 gallons of oil) and flying in cold weather you will occasionally have to reduce the amount of air getting to the coolers just to keep your oil temp in the green.:)

When it gets complicated (and I don't think I see them on this one) are your oil bypass and oil shutoff knobs...sigh...I miss flying that old girl...:(

Gotta stop now, making me want to go fly one...
 
Beautiful.

We actually had a DC3 over at the airport this morning dueing Touch and Goes. It was absolutely the most beautiful thing in the world I have seen or heard.
 
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