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T-33 belly-landing in 2011 close to Bitburg AFB
Good evening !
During the days May 28/29 2011 was on the old Bitburg USAF airbase an AirExpo exibition with many commercial a/c. In the afternoon of May 29th, a T-33 aircraft with the civil-registration N123GB received a malfunction during the flight and the crew had to belly into a field just outside the fence of the airfield. Noone was hurt. Can anyone provide me with the USAF-serial-number of this aircraft ?. Thank you very much ! Horst Weber |
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Re: T-33 belly-landing in 2011 close to Bitburg AFB
Horst
I assume you mean N132GB and just mixed the digits a little bit? It was T-33A c/n 9712 with previous IDs as follows 53-6091 USAF N11989 Lewis College, Lockport IL 1972/77 N8077X (1 Gerald N. Butterworth/ Rhode Island Aircraft, West Kingston RI 5.88 N32GB Gerald N. Butterworth, West Kingston RI 8.89/92 (flew as "USAF 36091 My Sensuous Mistress") Cloud Dancer Flying Club, Winter Haven FL 4.9.92/98 (del. US to Denmark via Keflavik 22.8.98) OY-RUT Jesper Rungholm/ Danish Air Transport, Vamdrop: reg. ntu 31.1.00/09 (based Denmark 98-10, flew in RDAF paint scheme “Danish Air Transport” as OY-RUT then N132GB) N132GB (1 Gerald N. Butterworth/ Cloud Dancer Flying Club, Bartow FL 23.8.00/16 (based Hahn, Germany 10-11, Luftwaffe markings) forced landing in field near Bitburg AFB Germany 28.5.11 op: Fliegendes Museum Mendig, Mendig Germany .12 (based Florida 15, USAF camouflage) N132GB reg expired 31.1.16, struck-off USCR 28.2.18 Details copied from Geoff Goodall's excellent site!! The only difference I can se is that he has the date reported as 28/5 and not 29/5... Cheers Stig |
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Re: T-33 belly-landing in 2011 close to Bitburg AFB
Jig !
Thank you very much for the information. But according to a number of sources (police, firefighters, newspaper e.g.), which are still present in the net, the incident took place Sunday, May 29th, 2011 at about 13:15 hrs. Thanks and good wishes. Hoprst Weber |
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