French Warbird display 1991

[MOD]

I have just found (well Mrs Mod did!) several boxes of slides from this French Warbird airshow from the 18th August 1991 at a little airfield just outside Villeneuve sur Lot. This was the one and only time an airshow had been held at this private flying club.
I wangled a Press pass by ringing the Flying Club's President, whose name I had seen on a poster in a butcher's shop in Domme south of the Dordogne (where I was on holiday).

My thanks to "Warbirds" magazine for actually returning these slides more or less intact. (Those of you who used to send slides to magazines will know how rare an event this was).

Corsair F4U-5NL VC-3 F-AZEG Jean Baptiste Salis collection


Skyraider A1D F-AZDQ Jacques Bourret.. Later Claude Hendrickson/Dixie Equipment LLC, Woodstock, AL, September 2008 - May 2012. Registered as N121CH.
Seized by U.S. Government for entering the country illegally, April 24, 2009.
Ownership transferred to the U.S. Navy, January 6, 2012. National Museum Of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL, 2012.



Mustang P-51D "Jumping Jacques" F-AZMU. This ex Jacques Bourret "Tuskegee" Mustang is now operated by Hangar 11




I am scanning the rest - so be warned.

ibw

[Dan4th]

Do Your Worst, Eye-Bee!

We are prepared to be Dazzled!!!!!!!!!

Danf.

[Ipso]

For me this is the best Era for warbirds, they seemed to be more dynamic displays.
Where did you find the updated info MOD?

[Gaz]

ooooh, love these old slide threads!

Keep em coming, Ian!!

[MOD]

For me this is the best Era for warbirds, they seemed to be more dynamic displays.
Where did you find the updated info MOD?

Mostly I use Airliners.net and I have a list of sites (too numerous to mention) where I follow particular warbird/historic aircraft users.

ibw

[Dagger_id]

Great slides MOD!Keep them comin'!

[MOD]

See below.

[Dan4th]

Eye Bee!

Pics have been "moved or deleted"

Danf.

[MOD]

OK Danforth I know what has happened. I will post upload them to photobucket again.

My fault as I deleted the wrong album - finger trouble

ibw

C-47 F-GILV
44-76603 USAAF delivered 24 March 1945
KN462 RAF del Nassau 02 Aprl 1945
G-AMPT Eagle Aviation Ltd registered 04 March 1950 and named "Reliance"
VP-YKM Central African Airways Corporation bought on 14 May 1953 and named "Bemba", later renamed "Angoni"
VP-YKM Air Malawi transferred in 1964
7Q-YKM Air Malawi re-registered 1966
ZS-EYO Air Cape Limited registered May 1970
F-ODQL Hemett Exploration registered 27 September 1p84, named "Ville de Villandrie" and based at Maputo
D-CDST Reise-und-Rundflug GmbH registered 18 March 1987
F-GILV Gilbert Villa registered 18 July 1990 and based Nimes, France
Impounded in Algeria (Maybe that was what the Afrique Air Solidarite titles were for)
N48ME Medavia-Warmair Inc, Dover, DE registered 09 February 1995 (Medavia = Malta based)
Re-registered 3C-JJN in March 1995
Re-registered T9-ABC and noted at Luqa, Malta in 1995
Sold on auction to Newcal Aviation Inc after storage for five years on Malta
Dismantled ar Safi April 2000
Donated to the Malta Aviation Museum at TaQali in October 2002
Entered the Museum on 27 March 2006.








Is this better?


ibw

[Dan4th]

MUCH!

I especially like the fact they haven't
over-restored this aircraft...

I'm sure it's mechanically excellent,
but the patina on this old workhorse
is what makes the "look" so superb!

Danf.

[MOD]

I know just what you mean D. Not unduly surprising though when you think that it has been through more hands than Joan Collins...


ibw

[Mayfly]

Lovely set Mod thanks - wasn't there a navy blue skyraider on the Brit circuit mid to late 90s flown by a smallish chap with a handlebar moustache? IIRC it was around the time Gary Newman was flying.

[MOD]

Hi Pam, thanks.

The Skyraider you saw was probably this one which was doing the Airshow circuit, in 1993 anyway, when I took this shot at Blackburn's of Brough E Yorks. It was operated by Jean Salis and carried the civilian serial F-AZED. It was later sold to Kennet Aviation. Unfortunately I don't know who the pilot was but I will keep looking.

I can't see his moustache in this shot.




EDIT: BTW who posted the banner shot of the TSR2 which was at the top of this page? Just out of interest.

ibw

[Mayfly]

That looks pretty much like it, Ian thanks, I just remember it being everywhere at every airshow, at least it appeared to be.

[Dan4th]

What a HOTROD the Skyraider is!!!!!!!!

Danf.

[MOD]

Especially in USN markings.



ibw

[Dan4th]

Danf.