Hey FSM,
Here’s Monogram’s venerable white boxing of their F-86 that I built for a GB on a different site.
I built the kit to represent the F-86 flown by Burgess Meredith’s character in the movie The Last Chase. I’ve never seen a Sabre built up in these markings, so I thought it’d be a nice change from the usual NMF Sabres. It was tough finding info about the airframe, but I was able to find this:
"The aircraft was indeed loaned from Flight Systems - it was a Canadair Sabre 6, c/n 1600, built for the Luftwaffe. It first flew on 17Jun57, and served first with WaffenSchule 10 at Oldenburg, then as a civilian target tug as D9538 with Condor Flugdienst at Westerland on Sylt Island. After its flying career was finished it moved to technical school TSLw 3 at Fassberg. It was one of a number bought by Ormond Haydon Baillie in 1978, and after dismantling was stored briefly at Wroughton, UK. Haydon-Baillie was killed in a P-51 crash that year and the whole lot were sold to Flight Systems Inc., of Mojave CA. C/n 1600 was registered to them as N1039C in Apr79, and its appearance in film ‘The Last Chase’ came around November that year.
The aircraft was re-registered N82FS in Oct81, and served FSI as a target tug for a while. It was then registered to Gerald A Smith & Connie L Smith/Smith & Sons Aircraft, Paso Robles, CA and was re-registered again, this time as N186JC in Jun93, and painted in Skyblazers c/s as ‘31186’. It was then sold to Steve Snyder, Lumberton NJ, who flew it at many airshows. Sadly Snyder was killed in the aircraft on 19 June 1999 at South Jersey Regional Airport during a low-level pass." (Source)
Finding pictures that weren’t screen shots was difficult, but I was able to find one profile photo of the real thing. Anyway, let’s take a look at some pictures of my build.
Anyway, feel free to share your comments. Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
-O