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…In a joint venture with Vultures Row Aviation and Ezell Aviation the CAF Helldiver is fully dressed with lower gear doors. Vultures Row Aviation out of Cameron Park Ca. built a set of lower gear doors for the CAF Helldiver. The Helldiver is currently undergoing its yearly condition inspection at Ezell Aviation and Nelson and the crew did the final mounting of the doors.
Chuck

That's fantastic news!
Seeing cooperation between groups with similar projects is a win win! Way to go vultures row!
Apropriate to see this done at Ezells shop. Those artists rebuilt "the beast" when it arrived on a buch of flatbeds. Nobody knows it better.

Andy Scott

It has been a long time looking a little nakedm 40 plus years. Thanks to Vulture Row Aviation and Chuck Wahl.

To Chuck, Nelson, the CAF Helldiver Group, and all of the craftsmen involved.......including a special "shout out" to Mike Rawson........ She does look great!
Thanks to all of you.....
humbly,
alan brooks

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I still vividly recall seeing the Helldiver wreckage sitting forlornly on that flatbed trailer at Breckenridge, begging to be rebuilt. I stuffed $100 in the donation can, and back then, that was a lot of money to me. It sure is great to see the Helldiver looking so fine! Hats off to Vultures' Row and Ezell Aviation!

EDIT:
I picked up this NOS, 4 inch diameter, embroidered jacket patch through an eBay auction a couple of years ago:

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida

Errr........what color are the inside of the doors?

The correct color in this case.

Awesome!!!!
(You're soooo picky!!! )

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Excellent news. I'm glad that you guys could get her "fully dressed" once again. The capabilities with modern technology to properly recreate old parts correctly is something that many people have been wanting for a long time and now we can do it for a reasonable cost, hopefully keeping these beauties flying for as long as we can and safer than ever before by being able to put modern metals on these planes without compromising their accuracy.

Way to go!!

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Ha! Vlado, you funny guy. I can guarantee that Chuck will even have the color of the Alcoa markings correct as well as the appropriate font to match the date the plane was originally built.

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Flash backs...

If anyone is in regular contact with Nelson and the family, give them my best.
They'll remember me as the guy that did the TV news stories on the Seafire.

Great people.

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Fantastic! Way to Go everyone! Any news if the tail wheel will get it's cover/door? or what ever the correct name is for It I was here also when it was on the flat bed & I gave a few $$ what another great job!! Thanks again, Anthony