CONVAIR T-29A

This site will show the restoration process of the SAC Museum's Convair T-29. The SAC Museum, oops I mean, Strategic Air & Space Museum, is located on Interstate 80 west of Omaha, Nebraska. This site is dedicated to the aircraft restoration team at the museum. Click on photos to enlarge.

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Under the direction of General Curtis LeMay the Strategic Air Command Museum was established in 1959 at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, N...

The T-29 airplane was developed for the Air Force as a flying classroom used to train navigators. T-29 #50-0190 was delivered to the Air Fo...

These are pictures of the cockpit before restoration. Once again the hot summers and cold winters have distroyed the interior. The cockpit w...

This is a before look inside the airplane. There are 14 student radar and navigation tables in the plane. Over the past 30 years the harsh w...

May 2003... the cockpit has been gutted and now primer paint is being applied.. The interior has been gutted and ready for restoring..

The P & W 2800 engines, rusty and weathered, were packed with bird nests, spider webs and other nasty stuff. The engines were removed fr...

Restoration began on one niner zero around nov. 2002 but was delayed one year to restore a B1 bomber in 2003. These pictures, taken in sept....

These pictures taken in august 2005 show a newley restored cockpit.

This picture shows the newley restored overhead panel in the cockpit. This panel contains the radio panels, overhead switch panel, fire cont...

September 2005---This picture shows the new radio operators table and rack installed.

Restoration of T-29 one niner zero is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2006. After about one year restoring all of the interior co...

October 2005-- Radio Operators Table Completed.

Work on the exterior continues as all corrosion is removed and replaced with new sheet metal. All holes are plugged and dents repaired. The ...

November 2005---Installing student tables....

January 2006----With polishing completed and windows covered, the plane is close to painting. With the tables, chairs and lighti...

March-April 2006-------- With the control surfaces primed, prime coat is applied to the fuselage.

April 2006------ The white coat has been applied to the top of the plane. Note field of blue for the star and bars.

May 1, 2006----Gray coat applied...

May 3, 2006-- After painting the 2" blue stripe the restoration team begin rem...

Check out our next restoration project, a Boeing B-29 go to http://www.b-29restoration.blogspot.com .

June 28 --- 81 year old volunteer Al Morin directs the installation of the props. Al was also instrumental in restoring the engines.

June 28, 2006-- With the lettering and star and bars painted the rest of the engine cowling will be added next.

With the rudder and elevators installed the flaps were next to go on.

Aug. 2006 Paint the tires, wash the windows and dust the feathers and one niner zero is ready for show..........

BULLETIN !!!!! Instrument Panels have been added to two student desk to show the purpose of the airplane.

View web version

Powered by Blogger.