Help. Please help rescue this T-29D.
There is a former US Navy, (maybe prior USAF) Convair T-29D radar-nav trainer on the civilian owned-abandoned Mercer Field in Georgia: one hour north of Atlanta off I-75 (east side of the Inter-state), south east side of Calhoun city.
The T-29D #51-5145 here was recorded as a plane in the World Aircraft Museum Inc., PO Box 368, Calhoun, GA 30701
Go to my web site www.ronbarrett.com and see the T-29 pictures of the plane I took a four years ago. I talked to both the City of Calhoun and the owner. The owner ( who owned a boat hauling business at the time) would not entertain us purchasing the plane at that time. Now I hear the owner is suffering Alzheimers and has gotten rid of all but three of the planes: with the T-29 being one of the last there.
I told General Charles Metcalf, Director of the National Museum of the USAF at Wright-Patterson AFB about this T-29. Metcalf told me the Air Museum at W-P is not interested in this T-29, even though the Air Museum does not have a T-29 in its collection (they do have a somewhat like C-131). But NO T-29! Odd as the T-29 was the most-ever used (25 years+) navigator-bombardier trainer in the USAF's entire history!
So here a great T-29 rots! Any one know or is interested in trying to save this plane? It is loaded with T-29 nav parts: drift meters, sextant mounts, radar parts, nav tables & chair frames.
Also you can contact the National Museum of the USAF support foundation: e-mail at; afmfexex@donet.com if you want to donate to the Air Museum for saving any and all the historical planes we can. Always it is really about money!
I contacted the Warner-Robins Museum of Aviation, south of Macon, and they did not want the T-29 either. Any one know if they might let us store it there,,, in parts! ????
Please contact me at: ronaldpbarrett@yahoo.com,
or call 816-732-5802 , or mail to me: Ron Barrett, AFNOA Historian, 1406 South Lexington St. Holden, MO 64040-1636
There is a former US Navy, (maybe prior USAF) Convair T-29D radar-nav trainer on the civilian owned-abandoned Mercer Field in Georgia: one hour north of Atlanta off I-75 (east side of the Inter-state), south east side of Calhoun city.
The T-29D #51-5145 here was recorded as a plane in the World Aircraft Museum Inc., PO Box 368, Calhoun, GA 30701
Go to my web site www.ronbarrett.com and see the T-29 pictures of the plane I took a four years ago. I talked to both the City of Calhoun and the owner. The owner ( who owned a boat hauling business at the time) would not entertain us purchasing the plane at that time. Now I hear the owner is suffering Alzheimers and has gotten rid of all but three of the planes: with the T-29 being one of the last there.
I told General Charles Metcalf, Director of the National Museum of the USAF at Wright-Patterson AFB about this T-29. Metcalf told me the Air Museum at W-P is not interested in this T-29, even though the Air Museum does not have a T-29 in its collection (they do have a somewhat like C-131). But NO T-29! Odd as the T-29 was the most-ever used (25 years+) navigator-bombardier trainer in the USAF's entire history!
So here a great T-29 rots! Any one know or is interested in trying to save this plane? It is loaded with T-29 nav parts: drift meters, sextant mounts, radar parts, nav tables & chair frames.
Also you can contact the National Museum of the USAF support foundation: e-mail at; afmfexex@donet.com if you want to donate to the Air Museum for saving any and all the historical planes we can. Always it is really about money!
I contacted the Warner-Robins Museum of Aviation, south of Macon, and they did not want the T-29 either. Any one know if they might let us store it there,,, in parts! ????
Please contact me at: ronaldpbarrett@yahoo.com,
or call 816-732-5802 , or mail to me: Ron Barrett, AFNOA Historian, 1406 South Lexington St. Holden, MO 64040-1636
