[ARC5] Radios in Museum Aircraft

[Tim]

Hi Jim - Yep, I toured the Nine-O-Nine B-17 frequently when it was at the
Livermore air shows in the 1990's.  Beautifully restored but the BC-348
hulk looked like it had been in a swamp for decades.  Really sad, easily
replaceable, but no....
Sadly 909 is gone now....It had even survived being nuked at the Nevada
Test Site in the 1960's before it was flown out and later restored...
Good to see you at SLO!  Cheers, Tim
N6CC

On Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 11:06 AM JAMES FALLS via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> 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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