The B24 and the B-29 will, for the six months of each year they are not on tour, be kept and maintained at Addison." The pledge was made by Jim Cavanaugh, the founder of the Cavanaugh Flight Museum.Īs a result of the contribution, FiFi will be returned to flight status, and the B-29/B-24 Squadron of the CAF will relocate its base from Midland, Texas to the Addison Airport, at Addison, Texas (KADS). "In a joint press release, dated 21 January 2008, the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) and the Cavanaugh Flight Museum, announced a pledge of US$1.2M to re-engine FiFi, a B-29 Superfortress.
The new engines and experienced only minor (or so I'm told) issues with them. The conversion (see below) was completed several years ago and it hass now flown 2 successful seasons with owned by Scott Glover in Mount Pleasant,TX ( The plane has been repainted slightly and now flies as 'God and Country'."ĬV640 N860FW is ex/ N7263, of which a photo can be seen on Bill Hill's vintage airliners, a gallery on my website.īoeing B-29 'Fifi' is seen in its annual maintenance period. The other aircraft was completely scrapped.Īnd N101NZ, the AT-6D you refer to, is still based at the VFM, but is owned by an individual who lives in Hillsboro,TX and may have taken the plane home or had it out for maintenance.Īlso,The B-25 (aka Pacific Prowler) was sold a couple years ago to a new museum. Last I heard, the nose of one of them was in the hangar next door to the VFM and being turned into a simulator. I also received the following from Chris Trott in Jan.2016: "The CV640s are gone.well mostly. I was later told that another hangar can be visited under escort.
The 'Collection' as shown on the museum's website has more aircraft listed than I've here during my visit. It showed how the Commemorative Air Force moves its aircraft around and how relative the list I had from my Air-Britain book 'Aviation Museums & Collections of N.America' was to me: Convair 640s N3407 & N860FW were nowhere to be seen and the same for various other aircraft including AT-6D Texan N101NZ and B-25 Mitchell '29710'.
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