National Museum of Naval Aviation Pensacola, Florida USA

Lord_Manhammer · Post by **Lord_Manhammer** » 16 Dec 2007, 20:49

After two very good days at the NAS Pensacola we decide to visit the Museum of Naval Aviation on the Base. You can drive with your car to the Museum, Cemetery or the nice Lighthouse on NAS Pensacola. Just stop at the Maingate and you get an little papercard.

In the Museum you can spot aircrafts from the Pre WWII to the Modern Jet Era. They had over 150 wonderful restored aircraft representing Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard Aviation.

Gateguard:
The first F-14A that ever placed on public Display. This is the fifth of twelve prototypes manufactured by Grumman. (157984)

GB Traveller: 342 exymples of the GB-2 were deliverd to the NAVY since 1937. On Display 23688

RR-6 Tri-Motor: The NAVY procured a total of nine Tri-Motros between 1927 - 1931. Used for Passangers, Cargo and also tested as an torpedo-bomber.
The Tri-Motor was in 1929 the first Plan that flew over the South Pole.

F4B-4: This is an Army P-12F with NAVY design. Painted with the markings of Fighting Squadron 6B "Felix the Cat".
The 6B operated from USS Saratoga with F4B-4 between 1932 - 36.

AD-7 Skyraider: Note what you can put under this Plan!

AM-1 Mauler: Delivered in March 1949 to the NAVY. Operated from NAS Atlanta, Georgia and St. Louis.

F7F-3 Tigercat - 80373

After the Attack on Pearl Harbor the NAVY get the first 100 of there assault drones (TDN-1).
After that they get 165 drones TDR-1 like the one on the Photo (Reg: 33529).
From July - October 1944 the NAVY used them to reached target area at the Solomon Islands.

Lord_Manhammer · Post by **Lord_Manhammer** » 16 Dec 2007, 21:00

Here is a scene from the Korea War

Flight deck view

On the Flight deck

Like a Sequenz from "Back to the futur"

Static Display at the Homecoming Show
NU-1B Otter: After her Mission in the Antactica she flying for the Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River Maryland.
Then she comes to the Naval Air Traning Command in Pensacola. Since 1973 in the Museum. Reg: 144672

FJ-2 Fury

MiG-15 FAGOT

F7U-3M Cutlass: All there prototypes crashed. An underpowered and trouble making aircraft.
Four NAVY fighter squadrons were equipped with F7U-3.

The F2H-2P can carry six camers in her Nose. She is painted in the Colors of the Marine Photography Squadron Two.

S-3B Viking:
The famous Viking with callsign: "NAVY ONE" This Viking landing on the Deck of USS Abraham Lincoln during "Iraqi Freedom" with George W. Bush. On the 1 May 2003 aboard CVN-72 the President called out "Mission-Accomplished"!
Reg: 159387

A-4E Skyhawk: From the USS Oriskany VA-163 "Saints" 1967 Tailcode: AH

sp00k · Post by **sp00k** » 17 Dec 2007, 13:16

-edit, at work and totally forgot this forum is english only, sorry mod

When looking on google maps it appears that everything outside has been removed.

Myself i visited the museum in `93 (long time ago, i know) but then there were around 30-50 planes outside.

Are those still there? (i`m planning to go in `08, and since i only filmed in `93 this time i was planning to photograph all the planes outside.

On the last pic you can see the little runway bit, in `93, An Navy A7 was parked there, the last one to go out of service.

Lord_Manhammer · Post by **Lord_Manhammer** » 17 Dec 2007, 16:37

sp00k wrote: When looking on google maps it appears that everything outside has been removed.

Myself i visited the museum in `93 (long time ago, i know) but then there were around 30-50 planes outside.

Are those still there? (i`m planning to go in `08, and since i only filmed in `93 this time i was planning to photograph all the planes outside.

On the last pic you can see the little runway bit, in `93, An Navy A7 was parked there, the last one to go out of service.

Hello,

from the Museum website:
""The Flight Line Bus Tour takes you on a free 20-minute tour of the approximately 50 aircraft displayed on the flight line behind our Restoration hangar. Tour tickets are free and should be picked up at the Information Desk. The bus has a capacity for 30 people.""

I cant say it exactly because the outside terrain was closed two days after the Homecoming Show!
But I think you cant get every Aircraft from a Bus full with Kids

For me it was an very very nice day in there. I had seen so many "new" old Aircrafts... and that for free! You can also sit down in an Blue Angel F-4 Cockpit.

Try the IMAX Cinema!

ehusmann · Post by **ehusmann** » 17 Dec 2007, 16:49

Try to write the museum in advance and you might get permission to walk around the outside aircraft. That is what we did back in 2000 and is sure worth the effort. It is under supervision though and we didn´t have a lot of time, but enough to take pictures of each and every plane.

Erwin

jaah · Post by **jaah** » 17 Dec 2007, 16:59

Great pics.
It looks like a museum well worth a visit.

sp00k · Post by **sp00k** » 18 Dec 2007, 12:49

Lord_Manhammer wrote: I cant say it exactly because the outside terrain was closed two days after the Homecoming Show!
But I think you cant get every Aircraft from a Bus full with Kids

When i was there, the aircraft were all parked around the museum, so you could walk, around (and in.. since the entrance door to a P3 was open), and on the parked aircraft.

I guess they put them in an enclosed area because of all the people messing with doors/quick releases/maintenance bays..and such.

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Eglin Armaments museum is cool to

1st time i ever stood in the wheel bay of a B-52 and a SR-71.

Also there is a nice mini museum on the way from Pensacola to New Orleans, at Mobile Alabama`s USS Alabama memorial park.

Couple planes including a A-12, a very nice F-105, a Blue angels F-18, a Submarine, and the USS Alabama

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sfeyenoord1 · Post by **sfeyenoord1** » 18 Dec 2007, 17:32

Wow

Very nice pictures!

Looks like one awesome museum

Lord_Manhammer · Post by **Lord_Manhammer** » 18 Dec 2007, 17:37

Thanks for your comments!!!

Since February 2000 in the Museum
PBY Catalina: Cameras and Kitchen

Lord_Manhammer · Post by **Lord_Manhammer** » 18 Dec 2007, 17:41

Some things I spot outside the Museum.

C-5B / 87-0033 c/n500-0119 dep. from NAS Pensacola

""Pround to be a Tailhook member""
Electronic Attack Squadron [VAQ-134] "Garudas"

Henk Voortwijs · Post by **Henk Voortwijs** » 18 Dec 2007, 18:45

Very nice picture indeed! I know were I am going, when I'm going to Florida (again) next year

.
I presume the museum isn't hard to find? But just incase, could you send me a PM with the adress of the museum?

Thanks in advance,
regards,
Henk.

Lord_Manhammer · Post by **Lord_Manhammer** » 18 Dec 2007, 19:06

Henk Voortwijs wrote:Very nice picture indeed! I know were I am going, when I'm going to Florida (again) next year .
I presume the museum isn't hard to find? But just incase, could you send me a PM with the adress of the museum?

Thanks in advance,
regards,
Henk.

Thanks for your nice Words!

The Museum is direct on the NAS Pensacola!
You can drive with your car to the Museum, Cemetery or the nice Lighthouse on NAS Pensacola. Just stop at the Maingate and you get an little papercard.

Driving Instructions to the Naval Aviation Museum:
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Henk Voortwijs · Post by **Henk Voortwijs** » 18 Dec 2007, 19:15

Alrighty, thanks for the info. Nice website they have! I'm going to Florida in october 2008 and will visite this museum, that's for sure!

Thanks again, regards,
Henk.

sp00k · Post by **sp00k** » 19 Dec 2007, 13:05

The Florida pan-handle is paradise for spotters

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