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| ADF Serials Message Board > Navy Aircraft - Royal Australian Navy Fleet Air Arm > Sea Venom Wz903 Parts To Wz944 |
| Posted by: Luig Feb 1 2019, 12:27 PM |
| Pages 1 & 3 of the FAAAA newsletter PDF Feb 2019 Edition 19 have been reprinted together below to reduce file size for this forum. Some may have difficulty viewing the PDF however my best advice is to download it first. Rename the file extension to PDF if you have to do this - then view the PDF with the very latest version of ADOBE READER suitable for your operating system. https://www.faaaa.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/FlyBy-February-2019-v4Squeezed.pdf (2.2Mb) "...As we get closer to the first flight of WZ944 we will go and get 903. She will have many parts that will keep 944 flying”...." & "ADF Serials, that excellent source of information on ADF aircraft, reports that WZ903 was sold for scrap in 1966 and was acquired by the Warbirds Museum in Mildura NSW before being transported to Chino, California. The above post is the first update we’ve heard of this aircraft.... ...WZ944, which we understand is approaching flying status, was also acquired by the Warbirds Museum in Mildura and was subsequently shipped to the States. She was bought by Rich Grinnell and spent some time in Oregon. More recently she was transported to Ogden, Utah, where her restoration by John Hammons’ Ultimate Aviation Inc. continues...." |
| Posted by: Luig Feb 1 2019, 10:00 PM |
| Steve Long ex-Venom maintainer/restorer of Venoms has posted this FaceBook URL elsewhere for our info: https://www.facebook.com/FWarbirds/ PIC: “WZ944 at her new home in Ogden, Utah” https://scontent.fsyd8-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/41377069_1137543869755338_2713941369931431936_o.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_ht=scontent.fsyd8-1.fna&oh=54a764c3d543855a2a917a40ef9abbcc&oe=5CE935FF |