ChasenSFO
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Yes I knew that because Fry's based a lot of their aircraft at SJC over the years and their Sabreliner would fairly often tear up the pattern there to the dismay of Santa Clara residents. When the Patriot Jet Team would participate in fleet week based out of SFO, rather than all the pilots flying out at once, just 2 or 3 pilots would bring all the planes back to their home base in Byron (C83) and the Sabreliner would follow them there, bring them back, and then make another trip until the whole fleet was returned home. Watching L-39s take off with a Sabreliner from the old T2 ramp tower at SFO was badass. Also one time saw it shooting the pattern at SJC making a parallel landing with a Spanish Air Force A310 which was also very cool as parallel landings are rare to begin with at SJC.About that, I have some news...
There appear to be multiple Sabreliners at FXE. Did you know Fry's own(s|ed) own multiple Sabreliners?!
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Probably the coolest thing I saw Fry's do with it though was at the SNS airshow where Bob Hoover was present and they did a tribute airshow performance for him in it while he stood maybe 40 feet away from where I was watching it. It was later replaced with a Westwind. And now, Fry's is gone, and us nerdy home-PC builders have no place to take in and exchange and buy parts as needed. Sad, those stores were amazing, as were the jets. They had a 727-200 with winglets they used to fly the San Jose Sharks NHL team around in, too. Also briefly had a 747SP which they did charters to SJC with and had stored in MCC for a while where you could walk right up to it.
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