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P-47 Incident This Past September

Posted by Mike Henniger on Fri Nov 07, 2003 04:38:02 PM

This was posted on Vintage and Warbirds. It seems to indicate the Butch Schroeder P-47 was involved in an "incident" last September. I don't remember hearing about this.

Regards,

Mike


>From: Bill Larkins
>Reply-To: vintage-and-warbirds@yahoogroups.com
>To: vintage-and-warbirds
>Subject: [vintage-and-warbirds] P-47 Accident
>Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:18:21 -0800
>
>Here is the message from Ken Wilson. That is all the information that I
>have so far.
>-------------------------------
>
>I was wondering if your FAA reports had shown "Butch" Schroeder crashing
>
>his P-47D-40-RA at the Mt. Vernon, Ill. airport airshow on Sat. or Sun.,
>27-28 Sept 03?
>
>As I understand Butch was landing in a cross wind, a tire on the P-47
>blew out, the P-47 went up on the nose
>damaging the prop and cowling, but Butch walked away.
>
>Butch keeps this P-47 at the Danville, Ill. Vermilion County Airport,
>which is about a 3-4 hour drive from EVV. The
>P-47 is painted as a P-47D-25-RE, s/n 42-26641, 56th FG, 62nd FS.
>
>Should you see anything on this one, I'd appreciate you forwarding me
>the FAA info

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