We received word from Christian Gurling at the Tillamook Air Museum that not only is Tangerine now back in the air, she is tentatively scheduled to be part of the Hillsboro Air Show (a suburb of Portland, OR) on Aug. 28,29 &30.
Obviously, if you have the chance, go see her spread her wings again.
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We mentioned a while back that Tangerine, the P-38 owned by the Tillamook Air Museum, was moving toward coming back online.
Well, we just got word from the Museum Curator, Christian Gurling, that Tangerine recently made two successful 30-minute flights, with owner Jack Erickson behind the wheel.
It would be nice to see her in an air [...]
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When I saw Bob Cardin at the Planes of Fame air show this weekend, he also mentioned that they are definitely planning to take another shot at the trip to Duxford, England to complete that re-creation flight attempted back in ‘07. He said it won’t be this year, but their broad timeframe is about two [...]
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