Showing posts with label airplane gas stations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label airplane gas stations. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

I'm guessing a motor kept the airplanes circling... very cool. I've never seen this before

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https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10223733095273678&set=gm.1528953024949195&idorvanity=319578812553295
Sunday, June 23, 2024

one tire shop in Fresno distinguished itself for having a surplus Waco CG-4A combat glider, similar to the ones used during the D-Day landings in Normandy, on it's roof

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This CG-4A, USAAF serial 45-15691, built under license from the Waco Aircraft Company by Ford Motor Company’s plant in Kingsford, Michigan, ...

bought from Canada for $50, and transported to Seattle, this was one of many planes sold to gas station owners for displays after WW2

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Fred Dyson of Seattle would purchase several former RCAF Kittyhawks for importation back to the United States in 1946-47, and for only $50 ...

an Avro Shackleton perched above a Sasol service station near Johannesburg, South Africa, formerly known as Vic’s Viking Garage.

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The South African Shackleton was brought to its present location in 1987, and in doing so, it played a role in the preservation of another l...
Friday, March 11, 2022

The Airplane Restaurant in Colorado Springs is housed in a restored Boeing KC-97 tanker once used by the U.S. Air Force

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In 2001, former pilot Steve Kanatzar and his wife Debbie purchased the plane and pressed it back into service, this time as a unique dining ...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Fighter Plane Crash Gas Station

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https://www.mapquest.com/us/california/quick-stop-mini-mart-11654118   https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/145
Tuesday, March 08, 2022

a SAAF Shackleton on the roof of a petrol station in Johannesburg

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  https://www.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/1060242.jpg http://aircraftnut.blogspot.com/2013/02/of-shackletons-and-vikings.html
Thursday, December 16, 2021

Santa Clara County in California has decided to ban the sale of 100 octane low lead (100LL) fuel at two airports, Reid-Hillview Santa Clara County Airport and San Martin Airport, beginning Jan. 1, 2022.

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Piston-engine aircraft will be left without a fuel option in Santa Clara County, increasing the risk of aircraft misfuelling. Particularly...
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Thursday, October 22, 2020

the Airplane Super Service Station in Salt Lake City

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-6283
Thursday, May 16, 2019

I haven't heard of these warbird gas stations before, but then, they didn't last long

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Neither one lasted long; the Minnesota plane was eventually cut up and the back half became a tornado shelter before it was dug up again...
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I've seen airplanes on gas stations, and post offices, and downtown office buildings... even a skyscraper in New York, but I think this is the first time I've seen a plane on a car dealership (good idea!)

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https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by.428585/page-5092#post-12455100
Monday, April 08, 2019

The Sky-Hi Drive-In Restaurant, Monroe and Cicero, 1964, Chicago. The restaurant was built inside a converted body of a DC-6, Upper level was dining, lower level was fast food

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https://twitter.com/chicago_history/status/780237900575346689 https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/old-gas-stations.75124/page-...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

There was a Bomber gas station in Canada too! Had a Lancaster!

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But unlike the B17 Bomber Gas Station in Milwaukie Oregon, the one in Canada didn't last long, as the plane was quickly desired ...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Update on the Oregon gas station B 17 restoration

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Back in December 2014 it was loaded and moved to Salem http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/b-17-alliance-moves-historic-...
Friday, March 14, 2014

The gas station B 17 of Art Lacey, near Portland Oregon is getting restored to fly again... it's going to take about 7 years

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full post of how a B 17 came from WW2 surplus to be a gas station tourist draw at  http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/01/i-love-b...
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Sunday, January 13, 2013

Airplanes used to get you to pull into gas stations or restaurants, the best one first, Bobs Air Mail Service on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles, circa 1938

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the Royal Albatross, an airplane used as a service station, located on the eastern vertex of a narrow strip of land bordered by Ventura...
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I love a B 17 bomber story, here is a good one , a surplus B 17, a guy who couldn't fly one, who wrote bad checks, and couldn't get a permit to move it and build a gas station

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In Milwaukie Oregon, on the 99e highway, also known as McLoughlin Blvd, 6 miles south of Portland Oregon. Between I5 and the 205...
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