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JMA

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #105 on: February 07, 2018, 11:14:53 am »
In regards to the pic, when did the commander line stop incorporating the small flap window on pilot side?

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #106 on: February 07, 2018, 12:23:04 pm »
In regards to the pic, when did the commander line stop incorporating the small flap window on pilot side?

I think either straight 690, or maybe very early 690A.

JMA

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #107 on: February 15, 2018, 01:56:42 pm »
Classic, been in one of our offices since early 80's.  That was state-of-the art back then.

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #108 on: February 15, 2018, 02:26:00 pm »
Was that right after you took delivery? Looks like you are set up to do the North Atlantic?

You should post a picture of what the panel looks like now!

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #109 on: February 16, 2018, 09:08:20 am »
Yep, right after...  You're right-long range radios were mostly for flights out to Bermuda...

I'll get a pic of the panel as it looks today.  Dual 600's.

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #110 on: February 16, 2018, 02:19:50 pm »
Great shot, just up on Flightaware

donv

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #111 on: February 16, 2018, 04:40:17 pm »
That is a nice shot-- thanks!

I voted for it-- I'm trying to get votes for it so it will replace the default picture which comes up now.

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #112 on: March 18, 2018, 06:34:03 pm »
Some time in the 70's we had a Turbo Commander.  I was around 12 or 13 years old.  I never flew it, but I washed it, waxed it, sat in the front and went "woooooooh" a lot.

N22LY.  Bruce traced it to Central America somewhere.

I think that airplane is why I own one now.

The last photo is from the internet somewhere.

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #113 on: March 19, 2018, 01:20:10 am »
Looks like a 680T or 680V, Kent!
Slumming it in the turboprop world - so you don't have to.

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #114 on: March 19, 2018, 01:27:51 am »
Cool pictures!

The last one, with the 690 and the 685 and the blue bird, is a classic-- and I've never seen it before.

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« Reply #115 on: March 24, 2018, 02:06:33 pm »
My cousin, the man with his wife Linda in the picture said that it is a 680V.

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #116 on: April 01, 2018, 04:59:47 pm »
A few Commanders in front of the old Aero Air location, late 1970s (the 690B in the picture is 1978, and Aero Air moved to their new location on the other side of the airport around 1980, I believe)...


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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #117 on: April 02, 2018, 02:50:53 pm »
95047, back when new-ish. The owner of 95047 also owned the P-51 in the background... he still has the P-51, in fact.

Before buying 95047, he owned 95019 (the Indonesian 980 in another thread).

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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #118 on: April 04, 2018, 01:25:41 pm »
95047 (N1981S) on the ramp somewhere in "Arizona or New Mexico or some place."


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Re: Vintage photos
« Reply #119 on: April 05, 2018, 02:35:05 pm »
95047 (N1981S) on their hangar ramp, which interestingly is right next door to my present hangar. Unfortunately, that ramp is covered in so much junk that you could never take a picture like that today.

My friend tells me that 95047 was one of the "fire sale" airplanes that Gulfstream couldn't sell, and so sat in a field for a few years before they bought it. He said it had continual problems, as well.