American Aero Open house

[MIflyer]

American Aero at New Smyrna Beach Airport will be holding an open house to benefit the local Humane Society on Saturday 22 Feb 2020. Admission price is some pet food.

I was just there to drop off a magneto for maintenance and went into the office to ask where the mag shop was located. Following their directions, I walked out onto the ramp to find a big beautiful B-24 sitting there and a gorgeous B-17 just past it. A T-6 and a P-51D were in the hangar undergoing maintenance and there were two PBY fuselages they were working on as well. I don't know what else might be on display but they always have some exceptional equipment.

 

[Tony Kambic]

American Aero performs annuals and maintenance for the Collings Recips. The B-24 is Witchcraft, the P-51s are their Toulouse Nuts ( WVa Air Guard ) and their P-51C model being re-painted with a new scheme. Their P-40 is there along with Collings B-25, PBY, and a PT-19. The EAAs B-17 Aluminum Overcast is there also getting new cross-over spars in the bomb bay. There is also a private Corsair there getting a zero-time R-2800-43, a T-6 undergoing some maintenance, and a private TBM parked. And there are two other PBYs there one being restored for a static display. Behind the magneto shop is another American Aero shop with two Boeing L-15 scouts undergoing restoration. Look up that one to see what an odd aircraft it is.

Tony

 

[MIflyer]

I was back up there today picking up one magneto and dropping another one off. I did not see the L-15's. I bought a set of new, unused L-15 brakes at Sun and Fun about 25 years ago and finally sold them to some outfit in Minnesota or somewhere like that a few years ago; I wish I had waited!.

 

[Tony Kambic]

If you were inside the Magneto shop then you were about 10 feet from the L-15s. The door between the two couches leads to the shop where they are.