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Re: Smells like David Tallichet...

Posted by Jim H on Wed May 29, 2002 03:08:09 PM

In reply top Smells like David Tallichet... posted by bdk on Wed May 29, 2002 02:53:33 PM

: I think that the SBD used to be in his Chino yard at one t
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: : : This a/c I think is slated to be moved in the not too
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: : : ant future...unless plans have changed. There are no
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: : : fin has been attached. What is interesting about the
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: : : 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 litt
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: : Taking a look around the site, I found the Marauder inte
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: : sting. The Brit Columbia connection rang a bell. This su
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: : ly must be one of two(?) B-26s that were recovered decad
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: : ago - by Tallichet? IIRC, they were sectioned on the sp
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: : the storage compound adjoining the hangar (Yesterday's A
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You hit it right on the nose...DT has stored his aircraft there for the last 13 years starting with the SBD's...there were 3 originally, including the two wind machines still on display and another that was recovered from Lake Michigan. I am still trying to track down this a/c since it left. Other notable aircraft have passed through including an ex-Iraqi Sea Fury, a P-51D hulk (three crowns on the fuse in a blue circle..can't remember which a/f it came from), a couple T-28's, a B-25, C-45, the P-39's, the P-40. The B-26 is slowly being worked on, I don't think it will be a flyer...lotsa bondo. They have aquired the use of the old Gaurd Hangar at the Akron Canton Airport. What is really cool is the engine shop which contains an inground bay for runups. I know that there were mostly P-51D and H's stationed there..based on what locals have told me. There are also stories of buried bits around the hangar...but I wouldn't hold my breath.

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