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Re: A related Soplata thread...Youngstown museum?
Posted by John Beyl on Mon Sep 29, 2003 09:16:58 AM
In reply top A related Soplata thread...Youngstown museum? posted by Steve T on Sun Sep 28, 2003 08:31:39 PM
Steve,
The P-82 in question was originally purchased from Walter by somebody in the UK but never made it overseas. Only months after Walter sold it to this person, it was listed by Mark Clark and subsiquently purchased by Wally Fisk. When Wallys Polar Air Museum closed, the P-82 ended up across the field at C&P Aviation in Anoka Minnesota (ANE). It's still there and slowly being restored to flying condition. The last time I spoke with the mechanics up there, one of them told me it was on, "The ten year plan". I believe Tulio posted something about it not long ago after a visit to C&P.
John
: Mike et al--
:
: Thanks for the further updates and clarification. BTW I
: was looking through pix again yesterday and once again saw
: what I'd always taken for the rear fuselage of a USN T-34
: ...I now think this is too big, and may in fact be the equ
: ally flat-bottomed and slab-sided aft end of a C-45, which
: would match the USN C-45J listed...It's in USN-style sea
: blue top/white below with black cheatlines, postwar star a
: nd bar and the word "FLY" in yellow (for recruiting purpos
: es USN stuff often had "FLY NAVY" titling applied)...
:
: The actual point of this post: my Dad dropped in at Walt
: 's circa 1989; Walt was not there at the time but Dad spok
: e with (I believe) Walt's wife Peggy, and what he learned
: was quite interesting. My question is, did it ever come to
: anything...Walt was said to be, either alone or in cooper
: ation with another enthusiast (I don't recall that aspect
: with any clarity), moving several of his aircraft to Young
: stown, Ohio, to set up a small museum that was, if I recal
: l right (and I believe I do about this) to be called the Y
: oungstown Museum of Aircraft and Radio. Dad wrote down a l
: ist of the aircraft expected to move at the time. I rememb
: er distinctly that the F-82E and the O-52 were listed, alo
: ng with two or three others (P-80 maybe?). What is, of cou
: rse, interesting about the first two is that they are amon
: g the airframes no longer at Newbury. (Neither is the P-80
: still at Walt's but I'm not sure it was on this list; and
: , unfortunately, the list is long since lost).
:
: Question would be...did the Youngstown museum ever open
: (or really exist at all)? Anyone happen to have seen it, i
: f it did, to confirm what aircraft (if any) ended up there
: ? And if, as I've often wondered, the F-82, Owl et cetera
: did leave Newbury in connection with this venture, did the
: y ever return, or was that their de facto exit from the co
: llection? I'd be very interested to see some light shed on
: this rarely-noted bit of "history".
:
: S.