Pima Air Museum

Post by **Trev Clark** » 03 May 2007, 15:38

A place I always wanted to visit (but thanks to US political attitudes I never will), as seen on Google Earth (the nearest I will get!).

How many airframes can you get?

The nearby boneyard is good too

Tweek · Post by **Tweek** » 03 May 2007, 16:41

If you want to take a closer look:

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=32.14027 ... =0&src=msa

I'll go for that top row:

KC-135A, B-47, B-52 (x3), B-57, B-58, A-3 (could be an RB-66 I suppose), F-111.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 03 May 2007, 16:50

In addition

Viscount, C-118, C-133 , B-24?, Neptune, Super Constellation, Constellation, C-47

Garry

stegs · Post by **stegs** » 03 May 2007, 22:29

I visited Pima 26 years ago and it gave the impression that the planes were just dumped in the desert and then someone started a museum around them.
I dug out the 1981 guidebook and they had no B-52 then but I remember the B-58 Hustler sitting there looking like nothing else on earth. They were a lethal looking piece of kit.

Good memories of a great holiday.

Steve

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 03 May 2007, 22:33

hmm maybe I should drive down the road and get some surface shots for y'all

Leif

Tomliner · Post by **Tomliner** » 03 May 2007, 22:43

I visited Pima 17 years ago and although I can't remember much about it without digging out my old slides (remember them?) I do recall the Constellation 'Columbine' which I think had just been restored.ATB EricT

kit · Post by **kit** » 03 May 2007, 23:28

A whole aircraft recognition competition in one pic!

I think that's a B-66, the A3 has a straight trailing edge and the B-66 has a slight crank just inboard of the engines. The crank is just visible in the Flash Eath pic.

There's some real rarities there too, one being the Boeing YC-14 STOL transport, half way down on the left hand side with a T tail (in the shadow) and engines VERY close to the fuselage. I didn't know one still existed and I think they only made two.

And to the right of that, in the smaller aircraft section, looks like an F-107! Silver with red leading edges on the left hand end of the row next to an F-106, F-105, F-104, F-102, F-101 and F-100. Looks like they parked them in numerical order, almost anyway, there's never an F-103 around when you need one.

Now come to think of it, the bombers are arranged like that too, B-47, B-52, B-57, B-58, B-66, B-111 from left to right...............

stegs · Post by **stegs** » 16 May 2007, 22:52

A few pics from Pima in 1981 (scanned from transparencies)

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Paul K · Post by **Paul K** » 18 May 2007, 20:20

Blimey, how many B-52s does one museum need ??

Looks terrific though, and hopefully the dry Arizona air is kinder to such outdoor exhibits than the damp climes of Britain.

Post by **Trev Clark** » 19 May 2007, 18:49

This popped at SOH, is that an ex ETPS Viscount at the bottom of the photo?
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1211831/L/