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Re: R4 Hoverfly

Posted by Tim Badham on Sun Feb 09, 2003 05:15:35 PM

In reply top R4 Hoverfly posted by simon king on Sun Feb 09, 2003 03:53:49 PM

I'm not aware of any under airworthy rebuild. There is still an R-4 Chino and it may be the same one you saw but when I photographed it a couple of years ago it was located in the restoration hangar of the Yanks Air Museum. It was very complete and looks an excellent candidate for full restoration. In the last few years I seen examples in the RAF Museum, USAFM & stored with the Canadian museum at Ottawa but none of those are likely to ever fly again.
Regards, Tim

: Are there any R4s out there flying or under rebuild to fly
: .
:
: I well remember seeing a R4 hulk round the back of Planes
: of Fame in Chino somewhere near the Ryan Fireball and one
: of the P39s back in the 80s when they were rebuilding the
: P51A.
:
: I was on my first trip abroad staying with friends in Van
: Nuys and I made the pilgrimage down to Chino having spent
: some fruitless time looking for the old location of the mu
: seum in Beuna Vista(?).
:
: Always seemed that the R4 was so simple that it would be r
: elatively easy to restore although no doubt people will te
: ll me differently
:
: sk

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