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There is another Beaufort undergoing restoration in Australia. This to static display.

Here are a few shots of the nose section on display at the Australian National Aviation Museum at Moorabbin, Victoria -next to their Beaufighter

The cockpit looks immaculate

 

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The Moorabbin machine (which I've donated to) is the subject for my FROG kit, sadly on hiatus for about a year and a half.

 

I'll one day get a Special Hobby to do '141. It's a very exciting project that I've been following since I was a child. Ralph Cusack has been at it for a while and it's all coming together now.

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While we're playing

Our un serialled cockpit section. 

It was constructed at the railway workshops at Chullora but never delivered.

It was rediscovered in the 1960's and donated to the museum.

Completely original and unsullied

 

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Don't know about the Beauforts, but a couple of years ago I saw a Vought F4U under restoration in Mareeba. Whether it was being restored to flight or static condition, and whether it is still there I don't know.

 

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On 8/21/2018 at 9:52 PM, DennisTheBear said:

Don't know about the Beauforts, but a couple of years ago I saw a Vought F4U under restoration in Mareeba.

From memory it was spearheaded by Mike Spalding (Spaulding?) and was to fly, their next project after the P-40N. I've not heard anything for a while either...Goodall has the following:

 

F4U-1D Bu82640 War Memorial Museum of Virginia, Newport News VA49/85 (port wing cut off to facilitate display) Steve McClellan/ Confederate Air Force, Virginia Beach VA .85/98 Gerald Yagen/ Training Services Inc/ Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach VA .98/05 (stored Norfolk VA pending rest. to fly) Murray Griffiths/ Precision Aerospace Products, Wangaratta VIC .05/09 (shipped to Wangaratta VIC .06 for rest. to fly, still in blue USN scheme ex museum display) North Queensland Warbirds, Mareeba QLD .10/15 (rest. to fly at Mareeba 10/17, due to fly 2018) VH-NQW North Queensland Warbirds, Mareeba QLD 30.3.11/17 (sections of FG-1D Bu87833 savaged from Lake Washington c84 were at Wangaratta 06 as Parts for the rebuild of Bu82640)

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On 8/21/2018 at 7:52 PM, DennisTheBear said:

Don't know about the Beauforts, but a couple of years ago I saw a Vought F4U under restoration in Mareeba.

 

On 8/23/2018 at 1:52 PM, k5054nz said:

From memory it was spearheaded by Mike Spalding (Spaulding?) and was to fly, their next project after the P-40N.

 

Hi Dennis/k5054nz

Was this it? This was taken at Mareeba in August 2016- Not sure of the progress made since then.

 

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19 hours ago, 72modeler said:

Isn't there an F4U-1 being restored as a birdcage Corsair somewhere in NZ, or am I mistaken? (Usually am!)

Mike

We had one - the only flying birdcage at that time - from 1991 to 1999, when it was sold to Brazil. Bob Jarrett's Classic Jets Fighter Museum (IIRC) in Adelaide is doing a static one that can't be more than a year from completion.

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36 minutes ago, k5054nz said:

Bob Jarrett's Classic Jets Fighter Museum (IIRC) in Adelaide is doing a static one that can't be more than a year from completion.

Yertiz in 2013:) - Hope to get back sooner rather than later - This museum was well worth the visit

The P 38 went to the UK I believe (and yes you could go up the step ladders!)

 

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Ed and Zac,

 

Thank you so much for the update and photos on the birdcage F4U-1- she's a beauty! Brazil? She went to Brazil? Jeez, Louise! I know the colors and markings of choice  on a restored aircraft are up to the owner/restoration crew, but I wish this one had been finished in FAA TSS colors. I did a 1/72 birdcage years ago  using the Hasegawa kit, and did JT148, coded 5C (red codes, white outline) from No. 1835 Sq.  Brunswick, Maine, and it was my favorite model! (If you have the old Kalmbach book on Building Scale Models by Roscoe Creed, you can see color photos of it.) I plan to do her again, but will use the Tamiya kit.

Mike

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The Kiwi-now-Brazilian Birdcage was painted in RNZAF colours for her stay here (I built her using the Tamiya 1/48 kit last year), she was repainted into USN markings in Brazil. She was in the TAM Museum  which closed in January 2016. I'm not sure what happened to the collection.

 

Anyway. Beaufort!

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On 8/27/2018 at 8:36 PM, Pinback said:

 

 

Hi Dennis/k5054nz

Was this it? This was taken at Mareeba in August 2016- Not sure of the progress made since then.

 

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Might be worth a drive up there again to see if it is still there. It is about a 5 hour drive so I could take my daughter and make a (long) day of it, or maybe a weekend.

 

DennisTheBear

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