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Re: FAH Corsair Rediscovered
Posted by Rob Mears on Thu Mar 14, 2002 10:38:50 AM
In reply top Re: FAH Corsair Rediscovered posted by Brad on Thu Mar 14, 2002 12:16:15 AM
:By the way, did you ever figure out the identity of Soto's Corsair?
Sure did! [BuNo.124715] That should fill in a BIG blank in all of the survivor lists ;) I've been trying to get someone to hop up in the cockpit of that plane forever to take a peek at that data plate. I finally convinced Mr. Gonzalez to do it. It took three trips out to the plane before we isolated the Bureau Number from the other numbers around the cockpit and on the data plate.
He found it at first stenciled on the instrument panel, but you never know, such a part could have been 'donated' from another plane. I asked him to look for the data plate for confirmation and this is what he wrote back with (7/2001):
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Man, after twenty years of bound up curiousity I was extremely excited to finally read that number!
Rob