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Re: Smells like David Tallichet...

Posted by Richard Allnutt on Wed May 29, 2002 03:33:23 PM

In reply top Re: Smells like David Tallichet... posted by Jim H on Wed May 29, 2002 03:08:09 PM

Hi Jim,
I was recently at MAPS, and they showed me a great time... the people there are so accomodating. The SBD's were coming along well, and the work looked really good. Incidentally, the guy showing us around re-iterated t
he statement which came out a little while ago (which you told me about months ago Jim) regarding the bequeathment of six airframes from a guy named Louis Myers of Tempe Arizona. Apparently this grouping included a complete Brewster Buffalo (the number tallied with a Finnish airframe, but not BW-372), a P-40N, a P-38 (mostly complete, but with a damaged tailboom), a drone of some sort, and two other aircraft which for the life of me I cannot remember now. Anyway, apparently the will has come under contest from the heirs... no surprise I guess considering the potential value of the airframes, should they be as described. I have tried to look up the name Louis Myers in and around Tempe, but didn't get very far... he was supposedly a VERY secretive man. I guess it is possible for a chap to keep something so significant
hidden for nigh on 50 years, but... I am still guessing.

Oh, and Jim, the three yellow crowns on the P-51 you mentioned would mean it was an ex-Swedish example... or at least one which had at some point been painted to look like one... anyone have an idea as to which aircraft?

Cheers,
Richard
: : I think that the SBD used to be in his Chino yard at one
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: : ime too...
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: : : : : : http://www.mapsairmuseum.org/p-40warhawk.htm
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: : : : This a/c I think is slated to be moved in the not to
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: : : : ant future...unless plans have changed. There are n
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: : : : s to this bird and is basically a shell. They have s
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: : : : to build/reconstruct the horizontal stab and the ve
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: : : : fin has been attached. What is interesting about th
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: : : : museum is the 3-4 P-39 airframes stored in the "yar
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: : : : his place has come along way in 12 years and very li
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: : : : unding.
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: : : : Jim
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: : : Taking a look around the site, I found the Marauder in
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: : : sting. The Brit Columbia connection rang a bell. This
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: : : ly must be one of two(?) B-26s that were recovered dec
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: : es
: : : ago - by Tallichet? IIRC, they were sectioned on the
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: : : , and then brought out by railway. Didn't they then go
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: : : the storage compound adjoining the hangar (Yesterday's
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: : : Force?) at Chino?
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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...ther
: e were 3 originally, including the two wind machines still
: on display and another that was recovered from Lake Michi
: gan. I am still trying to track down this a/c since it lef
: t. Other notable aircraft have passed through including a
: n ex-Iraqi Sea Fury, a P-51D hulk (three crowns on the fus
: e 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 o
: ld Gaurd Hangar at the Akron Canton Airport. What is reall
: y cool is the engine shop which contains an inground bay f
: or runups. I know that there were mostly P-51D and H's sta
: tioned there..based on what locals have told me. There ar
: e also stories of buried bits around the hangar...but I wo
: uldn't hold my breath.

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