Historic Aircraft Restoration Project – HARP

Historic Aircraft Restoration Project – HARP

Gateway National Recreation Area, Floyd Bennett Field – Hangar B

Brooklyn

New York 11234

USA

www.nps.gov/gate/learn/historyculture/historic-aircraft-at-hangar-b.htm

+1 (718) 338-3799

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 10:00 – 16:00

Sunday 13:00 – 15:00

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 Aircraft collection

Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - HARP

90536/119

 

N4582T

44-76457

142829/AB-500

N1321V

7216

N644R

151664

NR105W

131542/210

1434

Beech SNB-5 Expeditor

 

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina

Douglas C-47B Skytrain

Douglas A4D-2 Skyhawk

Fairchild PT-26B Cornell II

Grumman HU-16E Albatross

Grumman JRF-5 Goose

Grumman S-2E Tracker

Lockheed 5C Vega (replica)

Lockheed SP-2E Neptune

Sikorsky HH-3F Pelican

Wright Flyer (replica)

Hangar B is the home to Floyd Bennett Field’s Historic Aircraft Restoration Project (HARP). Visitors who go to the hangar can see dedicated Volunteers-in-Parks working on Gateway’s collection of historic aircraft. Many of the volunteers came to the project with decades of experience working on planes, either in the military, the civilian sector, or both. Volunteers in the program range from high school youth to the “young at heart” who are in their 70s and 80s. Their goal is to return these aircraft to nearly original condition. The HARP volunteers have even built a full scale model of Wiley Post’s Lockheed Vega, “The Winnie Mae”.

Photos Mike Hodish