March AFB museum pics

[bigmike]

Went to the March AFB museum. Nice collection of planes indoors and out. Found a nice deuce there as well.

 

[TheBuggyman]

Was the Deuce on display or did someone own it? Look how neatly the cable is spooled on!

 

[bigmike]

I saw her from the highway. I went around a building "I accidently on purpose went outside the visitor area" and found her. It is owned by someone. Had Historical veh tags...current...It had a DRMO sticker on the window. I just had to get some pics!

 

[maddawg308]

I see a Pheaky Phantom in the back in the first pic. REAL nice bird. They were retired too early IMHO. The Israelis bought a bunch from us, upgraded them further than we did, and they blow the doors off anything we have to this day.

Got any more pics of the aircraft there?

 

[TheBuggyman]

I saw her from the highway. I went around a building "I accidently on purpose went outside the visitor area" and found her. It is owned by someone. Had Historical veh tags...current...It had a DRMO sticker on the window. I just had to get some pics!

Okay BigMike, we heard you the first time!

 

[CGarbee]

Great photos, thanks for sharing!
Did you see the "Follow Me Or Else" M38A1 by any chance?
http://www.garbee.net/~cabell/photos19.htm

 

[TheBuggyman]

That is a bad Jeep! I'm assuming the color scheme was for airfield use? Not exactly a subtle camouflage!

 

[maddawg308]

The checkerboard scheme was designed that way to make it hard for a pilot/co-pilot to NOT see the Follow Me Jeep. There were also some WCs that were painted that way, but they are RARE RARE RARE! VPW had one sold a few years back that was an original WC with the original paint checkerboard pattern still present. Sold at a premium, and was bound to be restored by an airfield enthusiast, who said he'd keep the original paint scheme.

 

[bigmike]

I did see the follow me jeep. sorry about the extra posts...that's the result of a hard drive crashing just as you push the "submit" button.
I'll post a few more plane pics tonight.