You guys know a ZERO lives at Van Nuys ? .....i saw it the other night when i went by VN.
I went to the hanger and checked it out. , what a cool plane.....the greatest fighter of its time and as rare as anything made.
What???? ???No Pics?????
Keith probably knows which one that is. Planes of Fame in Chino has a 100% original one. The other are original but have P&W engines instead. I remeber the one at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica way back when. It look almost new!
The Zero that was at the Santa Monica Museum of Flight has been in possesion of the Camarillo CAF for the last few years.
I wonder if this is the same one? (Recent airshows appearances included Riverside and Chino)
Kevin
aero-engineer
Hey Keith(Resident Warbird expert ;)), any light you can shed on this aircraft?
Quote from: phantomphan1974 on December 04, 2008, 06:30:13 AM
Hey Keith(Resident Warbird expert ;)), any light you can shed on this aircraft?
Maybe a pic or two also!!
A6M3 model22 N553TT belongs to Tom Thomas and is in the process of being sold to an unknown individual (Japan) ??? the asking price was 1.9m
this plane was one of 3 Zero's manufactured in russia , the other two birds 1 owned by David Price, an the other owned by Paul Allen, which will be ready to fly shortly
found photo on abpic.co.uk
taken by Keith Sowter
Thank You. For the Pic. <cheers>
Sucks that it would fly anymore once it gets to Japan.
Why were the Russians building Zeros?
Any way we can add a period at the end of Jap.?
G
Quote from: phantomphan1974 on December 05, 2008, 06:32:14 AM
Sucks that it would fly anymore once it gets to Japan.
Yes, we must keep all these types of aircraft in the US >:D Too many of them are being sold to other countries :'(
The latest news Re: N553TT A6M Zero , is that its not going to be heading to Japan ,The deal fell through ,the plane instead will be ferried to Caldwell, Idaho it should be departing between this week and next week , I will be speaking with the pilot for the ferry flight before the end of this week to find out what day it will be leaving
Quote from: WARBIRD KEITH on December 16, 2008, 11:48:16 AM
The latest news Re: N553TT A6M Zero , is that its not going to be heading to Japan ,The deal fell through ,the plane instead will be ferried to Caldwell, Idaho it should be departing between this week and next week , I will be speaking with the pilot for the ferry flight before the end of this week to find out what day it will be leaving
Good to see it will stay in the US ;D
Just found this thread...sorry I didn't see it sooner. If anyone has interest, back in 2005 I shot a walk-around of this for my old blog, which is archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20060614064649/mojaveweblog.com/pages/051026-1.html
Nice pics Alan
Quote from: akradecki on March 12, 2009, 10:20:43 AM
Just found this thread...sorry I didn't see it sooner. If anyone has interest, back in 2005 I shot a walk-around of this for my old blog, which is archived at http://web.archive.org/web/20060614064649/mojaveweblog.com/pages/051026-1.html
Great pix ;)
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5706/21917077112_d1865d7211_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zoJKrS)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/zoJKrS) by G Tagami (https://www.flickr.com/photos/singlereflex/), on Flickr
From an Air to Air shoot with Planes of Fame Air Museum's Pacific Theater fighters (A6M5 Zero included) in May of this year.
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Love em Britt!
Kevin
aero-engineer
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