Photo Thead: Show Us Your Plane!

[Pilawt]

Not exactly. The J is the Department of the Navy designation for North American Aircraft. For Navy/USMC aircraft, the third letter is the manufacturer code.

B=Beech, also used for Boeing
C=Curtiss
D=Douglas
F=Grumman
J=North American
M=General Motors
N=Naval Aircraft Factory
S=Stearman
Y=Consolidated

A few others:

G=Goodyear
K=Fairchild
O, V=Lockheed
U=Vought

Obviously there were more than 26 manufacturers so there was a lot of duplication and inconsistency. It was a confusing mess by the time the unified Tri-Service military designation system was implemented in 1962.

 

[N659HB]

I almost like that better than polished. Wowzers

Thanks.

 

[pmanton]

Here's my Champ the PA-22 is my Avatar

 

[AuntPeggy]

Here is my plane and grandson following his first flight in it:

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

So, howzecome no one shows their airplane looking like this?

 

[petrolero]

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[Fearless Tower]

So, howzecome no one shows their airplane looking like this?

Is this better? It's what my Waco looked like before the restoration.

 

[JHW]

heck, if we're counting that stuff, I have 3 more airplanes to share:

 

[Howard Wilson]

Tuesday evening in Iowa. Brent Taylor took this pic of the Parrakeet.

 

[Lowflynjack]

I love the Parrakeet. Very nice looking plane!

Tuesday evening in Iowa. Brent Taylor took this pic of the Parrakeet.

 

[dillardrg]

After a 2 turn spin, recovery started.

 

[rbridges]

After a 2 turn spin, recovery started.

Geesh, that looks awful low to be pointed nose down.

 

[dillardrg]

Geesh, that looks awful low to be pointed nose down.

Looks are deceiving when the camera foreshortens things. Actually 3,000' AGL.

 

[champ driver]

Tuesday evening in Iowa. Brent Taylor took this pic of the Parrakeet.

Wow, a Parrakeet, that's really cool!

 

[Hank S]

So, howzecome no one shows their airplane looking like this?

Because they are too embarrassed to flaunt their nice powered hangar door? That's what I think every time I push mine open and closed, especially now that temps are in the high-90s and heat indexes are in the mid-100s.

 

[Rhark25]

Not fancy but lots of fun!

 

[timwinters]

Straight tails are the best! (And Airplanes with vertical stabilizers the aren't slanted back are pretty cool too!)

 

[EvilEagle]

My Toys:

Work #1:

Work #2:

Work #3:

 

[Velocity173]

Nope, doesn't count. Those are work planes and not "your plane."

 

[EvilEagle]

Nope, doesn't count. Those are work planes and not "your plane."

Very true! (although one of them does have my name on it...)

I was just following along in the "planes I spend a lot of time with" post since I spend more with the last three than I get to spend with my Bo.

Hey, at least I started the post with pics of "my plane" right?

 

[bullwinkle]

 

[winrose46]

Travel plane
http://clarityphotos.smugmug.com/Aviation/RepairsC150N2217J/i-tSQXDWw/A
My training plane after my C 150 got flipped
http://clarityphotos.smugmug.com/Aviation/1St-Solos/Wills-Solo-August-12-2013/i-WdLDqFQ/A
My 2nd Training plane after Hurricane Sandy finished playing with it.
http://clarityphotos.smugmug.com/Aviation/HuricaneSandy/i-Vdt6KbZ/A

 

[Skywalker]

My 2nd Training plane after Hurricane Sandy finished playing with it.
http://clarityphotos.smugmug.com/Aviation/HuricaneSandy/i-Vdt6KbZ/A

Oh no!!! That is a really sad view...

 

[Mtns2Skies]

Wow this OP is brilliant. Great thread idea.

 

[BrianNC]

Thanks @Mtns2Skies. This thread needs to be started up again. And panel pics too people!

 

[N659HB]

Too bad there are so many broken links. I'll have to re-post my pic, if I can recall which one it was!

 

[jimhorner]

Cool thread. Here are a few pics of mine.

In flight, over Death Valley.

In my spiffed up hangar (added lighting, epoxy floor coating, painted walls, organized the stuff, and brought my models to hang up)

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

 

[Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe]

More than you want to know (21 boring minutes of listening to me babble - you've been warned).

 

[wrbix]

Sure, OK .............................

 

[Jim Rosenow]

This one's already in the thread once, but I took this pic just now, and thought it was worthy.... My wife over the runway 10 numbers at KBJJ...from the back porch. Cheapy 250mm on a Canon EOS. Life is good!

Jim

 

[Stickman]

 

[Mtns2Skies]

Courtesy of @G-Man This looks even more spectacular now!

 

[Jim Rosenow]

Ya' just gotta love Cessna tail-draggers...it's a RULE!

Jim

 

[N3368K]

Ya' just gotta love Cessna tail-draggers...it's a RULE!

Jim

Especially multi-engine Cessna taildraggers.

 

[Skywalker]

We have a new plane since this thread started...:

 

[ktup-flyer]

 

[Stan Cooper]

2008 AMD CH601XLi-B SLSA converted to experimental category.

 

[James_Dean]

 

[RyanB]

Trying to decide whose Cessna 180 I like better...

@Mtns2Skies @Stickman

 

[GeorgeC]