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Re: Anybody have info on this P-40?
Posted by Steve on Wed Jan 09, 2002 10:43:02 AM
In reply top Anybody have info on this P-40? posted by Tom Royal on Tue Jan 08, 2002 09:17:07 AM
I saw it sitting at Tom Reilly's place about 4 years ago. I was told it was pulled from a river bed in Florida where it had been buried in silt. Condition was great. Then owner had painted a shark mouth on it, patched some holes, and towed it around to various events.
On a later visit, it was gone but an worker said that a relative of the finder/owner had removed it for restoration.
: I was wondering if anybody here had any information regard
: ing the status of this P-40. I took this photo at Sun 'n
: Fun in 1999 I think, and remember reading about this plane
: being recovered from a lake here and Florida.
:
: I haven't really heard anything about it since, and was wo
: ndering if anybody new who was restoring it and what it's
: status was?
:
: Thanks in advance!
:
: Tom Royal