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No, they are more than just data plates
Posted by Richard Allnutt on Wed Apr 17, 2002 10:27:26 AM
In reply top Re: I may be wrong, but I think he's talking about dataplates... posted by Cees on Wed Apr 17, 2002 08:37:28 AM
Hi guys... well, I believe that these aircraft are the three owned by Chris Prevost of Sonoma, Ca. I had dinner with Chris about 3 or 4 years ago, after he'd been to the national archives to copy the Buffalo drawings there. He showed me pictures of the remains of the three aircraft in his hangar in California. There was a substantial amount of pretty decent (by todays standards at least) material, including a more or less complete wing (it's a one piece wing) from a dutch buffalo (you could still make out the triangular markings on the wing), and two pretty complete tail sections (one dutch, and one RAAF). There were a lot of other assorted components, and I certainly didn't see everything that was there, but I would say that there was enough raw material for about one and a half air frames. At the time, Chris had been trying to do a deal with the Dutch Air Force museum. They had been very excited about having an original Dutch machine. They had tried to work out a deal, swapping an airworthy (or nearly airworthy) Dutch Air Force F-5B for the remains, but I guess they ran into problems with the aircraft having been provided for, in part, by the US government, and that must have scuttled the deal I guess, because it's the last I heard of it. At any rate, these airframes are certainly no less a candidate for restoration than the 109E that David Price had restored.... just thought that you should know that it isn't all smoke and mirrors with a few data plates thrown in.
Cheers,
Richard
: Lynn,
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: So with provenance it is actually meant:
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: parts of known aircraft
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: Another lesson learnt.
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: Cheers
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: Cees