Coolidge Municipal Airport (P08)

[Bill]

NC29926 Waco UPF7

[Bill]

N56017 Ryan PT-22

[Chris Kennedy]

I just noticed that this one has a missile on the wing tip. 

[Joe Copalman]

HI-HO SILVER

[FelipeG]

Is it possible to visit the ramp during non-fly-in days and just check in with the folks at IAR or something like that? I saw Chris' photo of N138FF/N126TG with no paint and I want to get a shot of it since I have no idea when the plane will be painted. I'm hitting the Copper Basin Railway tomorrow with some friends, and Coolidge shouldn't add too much time to the trip if we end up visiting the tracks around Florence as well.

[BillOz]

Felipe,

I'm sure if you drop in there, if there is someone there, they will likely let you take photos.
The problem may be that no one will be at IAR in Coolidge, as they have a more business location at Willy, and the people at the Airport operations may not be as open to you wandering around at IAR.

You might try calling IAR, and asking them if you can wander around their part of the Coolidge ramp.  That way, if someone says something to you out at Coolidge, at least you can say you talked to IAR and they said it would be alright.

[Paul Dumm]

Felipe, Copper Basin Railway hardly every moves. The only time I see them is when the NG are getting deployed. All so the tracks stop about 1/4 mile east of where they cross 79.

[FelipeG]

Felipe, Copper Basin Railway hardly every moves. The only time I see them is when the NG are getting deployed. All so the tracks stop about 1/4 mile east of where they cross 79.

Are you talking about them going to Florence or the operation as a whole? because everything we've read points to several daily trips (maybe 2 or 3, but that's a lot compared to most of the stuff around here) between the mines and Hayden/Winkleman and sometimes they make a trip to Florence (or I guess almost to Florence). Our plan is to mostly focus in that area, but in the end, if we go to Florence, or closer to where the UP Gila Sub is, Coolidge will be pretty close.

Bill, thanks for the info. Jack also sent me a message on Flickr with info, so I guess we'll see. Essentially at the most I'd be asking for permission to go photograph the C-130, and I assume my friends will probably want to check out the DC-7 and that will be it. Even if they give me only 5 minutes to do it that will do.

[Rob Silliman]

On Saturday, IAR was sanding the herc, and one of the guys working on it said they planned to fly it out (to send it for a fresh coat of paint) this week.  Its Thursday now, so it may not be there any more.

Felipe, Copper Basin Railway hardly every moves. The only time I see them is when the NG are getting deployed. All so the tracks stop about 1/4 mile east of where they cross 79.

Bill, thanks for the info. Jack also sent me a message on Flickr with info, so I guess we'll see. Essentially at the most I'd be asking for permission to go photograph the C-130, and I assume my friends will probably want to check out the DC-7 and that will be it. Even if they give me only 5 minutes to do it that will do.

[FelipeG]

On Saturday, IAR was sanding the herc, and one of the guys working on it said they planned to fly it out (to send it for a fresh coat of paint) this week.  Its Thursday now, so it may not be there any more.

Thanks for the heads-up on that. I hope that by some miracle the plane is still there. Nothing is showing up on the tracker for N119TG (the plane's new reg, not 126, which I thought was the new one), so assuming that they do file a flightplan, it hasn't left.

[Jay Beckman]

Walter's Mistress...

11-3-12 Fly In

[Chris Kennedy]

Paint is still coming off.



About the same turnout today as last month.

(And the naked C-130 is still there.)

[FelipeG]

(And the naked C-130 is still there.)

I should have woken up at 4 AM to go down there, instead of at almost 1 PM.

[Bill]

Beech Staggerwing NC44562 at 11-3 fly in.

[Bill]

Monster lift-off at the 11-3 fly in.