[ARC5] Radios in Museum Aircraft

[JAMES FALLS]

A colleague (Mark KK6WTI) and I ran my BC-375 and his -348 on Nine-O-Nine in the air back in ‘16, and we discovered that all the equipment was just shells with no cabling and a few knobs because of the legions of idle hands that trooped thru them during tours. 

The only semi-working equipment was on Witchcraft because the flight deck was off limits. 

Jim Falls K6FWT 

> On Jun 19, 2026, at 10:52, Wayne Eleazer via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> The USAF Museum used to have a B-50 you could walk through.  And I was disappointed to see that the radio equipment had been badly savaged by the visitors.  Many years later the museum was asking for help in restoring the equipment.  I assume that they found out from that experience that if you were going to have a Walk Through aircraft the last thing you should do is equip it with accurate radios.
> 
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
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