Click the pics to make bigger, photos by AAron B. Hutchins:
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- Section Eight paid a visit to Pocatello Airport in summer 2012.
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- More than 8-thousand D variants were built, in the U.S. and Australia.
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- The D variant saw combat during World War 2, Korea and the upgraded Cavalier version saw action in Latin American countries.
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- 24 VDC, located toward the rear of the starboard wing root.
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- At least you can see the canopy rail detail.
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- Pocatello Airport, 02 August 2014.
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- This plane has been around for a while. Bob Hoover began naming his P-51D airshow planes Ole Yeller starting in 1962. The FAA declared him physically unfit to fly in the 1990s. John Bagley of Rexburg, Idaho, is the current Ole Yeller owner/operator. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.
In 1999, there was a small ‘air show’ at Pocatello Airport that was actually a promotional event for what was then called the Confederate Air Force (now called Commemorative Air Force). One of the planes that showed up was Section Eight.
Me, Denise, little Jenny, and of course Aryssa is getting distracted again.
Me, Aryssa, Alex and little Jenny.
A bunch of crazy kids, get it, Section Eight is military lingo for crazy.