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Re: R4 Hoverfly
Posted by D Powell on Sun Feb 09, 2003 10:45:19 PM
In reply top Re: R4 Hoverfly posted by Tim Badham on Sun Feb 09, 2003 05:15:35 PM
The one at chino was traded to the national collection in ottawa for their Val, there is also one on display in The Americian Helicopter Museum in PA.,on loan from NASM, this is the one that did the first helicopter rescue in canada, of a canso crew in labrador
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: Regards, Tim
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: : I well remember seeing a R4 hulk round the back of Plane
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: : of Fame in Chino somewhere near the Ryan Fireball and on
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: : of the P39s back in the 80s when they were rebuilding th
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: : I was on my first trip abroad staying with friends in Va
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: : Nuys and I made the pilgrimage down to Chino having spen
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: : some fruitless time looking for the old location of the
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: : seum in Beuna Vista(?).
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: : Always seemed that the R4 was so simple that it would be
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: : elatively easy to restore although no doubt people will
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