Avenger

[Splitpin]

Quick question....would the Avenger make the grade as an Ag aircraft for this months comp....it was afterall the first duster ......i think.

[connor]

Dunno, but if it was used to round up sheep then you'd be fine!

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (connor @ Feb 19 2011, 02:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Dunno, but if it was used to round up sheep then you'd be fine!

Good point wooly guy......do you carry a dog in the Robby?....or was he flying?

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Feb 19 2011, 02:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Quick question....would the Avenger make the grade as an Ag aircraft for this months comp....it was afterall the first duster ......i think.

Would quaulify , early post war trials .

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Feb 19 2011, 04:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Would quaulify , early post war trials .

Thanks Ian.....Ive got the TBF for FS9....will she fly in FSX and is there a repaint from that era?

[Ian Warren]

Marty , cant even tell you the rego the mo ,

[connor]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Feb 19 2011, 02:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Good point wooly guy......do you carry a dog in the Robby?....or was he flying?

Nah, forget that, he was back at the hut getting the roast underway!

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ Feb 19 2011, 09:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks Ian.....Ive got the TBF for FS9....will she fly in FSX and is there a repaint from that era?

One thing i am sure off , it was a target tug , with the turret removed .

[Syncop8r]

There's another at Wigram - was it the Hudson? - was used as a chicken coup.
That's agricultural...

[Ian Warren]

I'm very sure that was the Catalina hull , could be wrong , but the places some off these old aircraft parts come from really can be another 'Believe or Not ' series , the stories were the get dug up , or even Avengers , once the lend least run out on return to the US or Pacific Fleet were simply dumped over board .

[connor]

QUOTE (Syncop8r @ Feb 20 2011, 10:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

There's another at Wigram - was it the Hudson? - was used as a chicken coup.
That's agricultural...

If we want to go down that road, Argosy's could be classed as agricultural aircraft. An old Ex-safe Argo is being used as a shed near Woodbourne.
It would be an Agro Argo

[Ian Warren]

Connor , don't go there or you will have Doug after ya , a Whistling Wheel-borrow , a happy gardener i guess , it s all in the name

[coltis]

yes it was used as a chicken shed it sat in a paddock just south of oamaru for years untill it was salvaged.

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (connor @ Feb 20 2011, 11:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If we want to go down that road, Argosy's could be classed as agricultural aircraft. An old Ex-safe Argo is being used as a shed near Woodbourne.
It would be an Agro Argo

The Argosy was never used as a shed it was bought from SAF and turned into a tourist attraction at a cafe opposite Woodbourne airport.
Yes it could be called an AG plane if you call transporting animals as it has carted horses cattle and sheep as cargo on the odd occasions.

[connor]

QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Feb 20 2011, 03:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The Argosy was never used as a shed it was bought from SAF and turned into a tourist attraction at a cafe opposite Woodbourne airport.
Yes it could be called an AG plane if you call transporting animals as it has carted horses cattle and sheep as cargo on the odd occasions.

You're thinking of ZK-SAE, ZK-SAF, the one that had a landing gear failure at Woodbourne, was "scrapped except for fuselage and center section on wheel which is used for storage on a farm next to Woodbourne Airfield," from the book Safe in the Skies.