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Smells like David Tallichet...

Posted by bdk on Wed May 29, 2002 02:53:33 PM

In reply top Re: one in my backyard posted by Ron Henry on Wed May 29, 2002 02:06:39 PM

I think that the SBD used to be in his Chino yard at one time too...

: : : : http://www.mapsairmuseum.org/p-40warhawk.htm

: : This a/c I think is slated to be moved in the not too di
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: : ant future...unless plans have changed. There are no wi
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: : s to this bird and is basically a shell. They have start
: ed
: : to build/reconstruct the horizontal stab and the vertic
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: : fin has been attached. What is interesting about the MA
: PS
: : museum is the 3-4 P-39 airframes stored in the "yard".
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: : his place has come along way in 12 years and very little
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: : unding.
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: : Jim
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: Taking a look around the site, I found the Marauder intere
: sting. The Brit Columbia connection rang a bell. This sure
: ly must be one of two(?) B-26s that were recovered decades
: ago - by Tallichet? IIRC, they were sectioned on the spot
: , and then brought out by railway. Didn't they then go to
: the storage compound adjoining the hangar (Yesterday's Air
: Force?) at Chino?

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