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Re: Corsair histories
Posted by JohnH on Wed Feb 20, 2002 03:51:35 AM
In reply top Re: Corsair histories posted by Rob Mears on Tue Feb 19, 2002 08:57:04 PM
I saw it on May 9th just as I got to the Brown Field Show, and also the year earlier at Madera. I probably also saw it at some other shows as well but these are the ones I remember. Sadly one of 40 plus airplanes I've seen the past 20 years in my crashed aircraft section of a photo album at home.
: : Rob, it was lost on May 10, 1987 after an airshow at Bro
: wn
: : Field near San Diego. Marshall Moss was the pilot.
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: My mistake. 1984 was the year Mr. Guilford tranfered titl
: e to the aircraft over to his 'G&R Aviation Enterprises'.
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: I had the chance to spend some quality time with BuNo.1336
: 93 at Oshkosh '86. It was the last time that ship would a
: ttend the event, and the last I saw of her prior to her be
: ing destroyed. The remains showed up in 1992 at Ezell Avi
: ation in Breckenridge, Texas to serve as a parts source fo
: r the restoration of the Lone Star Flight Museum?s F4U-5.
: From the looks of it there was absolutely no resulting fi
: re from the 5/10/87 accident. Every last piece of the F4U
: -7?s wreckage was intact, albeit mangled almost beyond rec
: ognition. It made me wonder how much fuel might have rema
: ined at the moment of the accident.
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: Rob