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Thanks everyone, N/T
Posted by Scott WRG Editor on Wed Oct 30, 2002 02:08:29 PM
In reply top Re: P-40E N940AK posted by Sammy on Mon Oct 28, 2002 03:58:26 PM
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: 5/11/95 crashed Phelps, NY - Bill Anderson: owner/pilot
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: wreckage sold to John Giljam / Hilltop Welding circa 1995
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: lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court for the County of
: Livingstone: Case 187-1996 (Anderson tried unsuccessfully
: to get P-40 back from Giljam)
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: Nov 27, 1995: Giljam sold P-40 to Dick Thurman/Vintage War
: bird Museum Inc. - plane into storage in Florida.
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: June 2000: P-40 wings moved to Pioneer Avspecs, New Zeala
: nd to start rebuild.
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: March 2001: P-40 AK940 sold to Tony Banta, Banta Aviation
: Corporation.
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: March 2001: fueslage, tail, etc... sent to New Zealand for
: rebuild.
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: March 24, 2002: first flight (in New Zealand)
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: May 2002: P-40 returned to California; now based Livermo
: re, CA (KLVK)
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: Next months Air Classics will have a full article on the r
: estoration.
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: : Does anybody know the history of this aircraft from 1991
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: : 001? I know it was involved in an accident. I need owner
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: : hip information for this time period.
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: : Scott WRG Editor