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GregP
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Thanks, Wildcat.
Hi Crimea River, the Sabre is still there, It just got polished. It is still in restoration and is owned by a private party, not a museum. The work being done on it is amazing. When it leaves, it will surely be one of the best Sabres flying today, what with new wiring, new avioncs, fresh polish, restored leading dege slats modification, and almost complete refurhish from the inside out.
Steve Hinton's Fighter Rebuilders is currently doing more than any other shop that I know of to keep the F-86 flying population up. The fact that Steve Hinton is flying lead for the Horsemen F-86 demo team may have something to do with that. They have now restored several and are pretty good at it. Unfortunately, vital parts are becomming scarce. So if you want one, NOW is the time while most of the vital parts can still be located.
As it is, if you want leading edge slats (if you have a Sabre, you want them), bring an airframe with slats on it already. Spare sets of slats are almost gone.
Of course , if you want to talk scarce, we have the only flying Northrop N9M Flying Wing with 2 1/2 engines to keep 2 flying, the only completely authentic A6M5 Model 52 Zero (we have two Nakajima Sakae 31 engines), one of two flying razorback P-47s (both P-47Gs), a very rare P-51A, the only flyable Seversky AT-12, an increasingly rare Douglas AD-4 Skyraider, the only flying Douglas SBD Dauntless (the others are all converted Army A-24s), the oldest flying F4U Corsair (started life as an F4U-1, then was upgraded to F4U-1a, then to F4U-1d), I believe the only flying Pilatus P-2 in the USA, one of a small handfull of the original Tora, Tora, Tora BT-15 to Japanese Val conversions, one of 7 flying P-38s, and a somewhat rare Flugwerke flying Fw 190 (with R-2800 power), so making parts that are scarce is nothing new to us ... we have been doing that for decades.
Hi Crimea River, the Sabre is still there, It just got polished. It is still in restoration and is owned by a private party, not a museum. The work being done on it is amazing. When it leaves, it will surely be one of the best Sabres flying today, what with new wiring, new avioncs, fresh polish, restored leading dege slats modification, and almost complete refurhish from the inside out.
Steve Hinton's Fighter Rebuilders is currently doing more than any other shop that I know of to keep the F-86 flying population up. The fact that Steve Hinton is flying lead for the Horsemen F-86 demo team may have something to do with that. They have now restored several and are pretty good at it. Unfortunately, vital parts are becomming scarce. So if you want one, NOW is the time while most of the vital parts can still be located.
As it is, if you want leading edge slats (if you have a Sabre, you want them), bring an airframe with slats on it already. Spare sets of slats are almost gone.
Of course , if you want to talk scarce, we have the only flying Northrop N9M Flying Wing with 2 1/2 engines to keep 2 flying, the only completely authentic A6M5 Model 52 Zero (we have two Nakajima Sakae 31 engines), one of two flying razorback P-47s (both P-47Gs), a very rare P-51A, the only flyable Seversky AT-12, an increasingly rare Douglas AD-4 Skyraider, the only flying Douglas SBD Dauntless (the others are all converted Army A-24s), the oldest flying F4U Corsair (started life as an F4U-1, then was upgraded to F4U-1a, then to F4U-1d), I believe the only flying Pilatus P-2 in the USA, one of a small handfull of the original Tora, Tora, Tora BT-15 to Japanese Val conversions, one of 7 flying P-38s, and a somewhat rare Flugwerke flying Fw 190 (with R-2800 power), so making parts that are scarce is nothing new to us ... we have been doing that for decades.
