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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 2:17 pm 
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New to the Aero Vintage Books website:

We have compiled a list of RFC and WAA transfers to schools, communities, and non-profits during the period 1945-1948. The list currently consists of about 125 aircraft at this point but hoping to grow it from contributions from readers. I'm not aware of any other similar resource online so am hoping this will be useful. Find the listing here: https://www.aerovintage.com/waa-rfc-listing/

Also, I've added a page that takes a close look at the RFC and WAA process of transfers to educational and other institutions that might answer some questions about how the program worked. That page can be found here: https://www.aerovintage.com/rfc-waa-educational-transfers/

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:01 am 
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Excellent stuff! I love it!

Just yesterday I was looking through Flickr and I came across a group called "Airplane Parks" dedicated to aircraft placed on display in public parks and/or as playgrounds. Maybe you could make a list of them next.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 4:43 am 
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Terrific! PM sent with updates.
Pretty sure these are the XP-46 and P-35 from Burgard Vocational High School in Buffalo, NY:
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I spotted this photo on eBay a few weeks ago and almost passed on it; glad I got it! At the time I didn't know where or when this was taken; looks like my question was answered!

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Also, here's P-61C 43-8205 in Ohio:
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And a tiny photo from the 1947 Cushing, OK high school yearbook; definitely B-25 although oddly there's zero mention of their P-47 in that period:
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There was a P-40 in a Chicago school as well. University of Illinois?


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Previous thread on this subject, posted by Chris....
Another long-gone high school warbird
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 3:28 pm 
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Apologies, I have a large folder of photos I need to post here.


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Vernal Airplane School

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 7:40 pm 
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Updated to incorporate new information. List stands at 133 aircraft.

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Samuel Gompers School, San Francisco, CA

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FM-2 added...thanks

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Thanks for posting these. They all appear to be 1943 transfers from the AAF so not RFC transfers. I will add them to the list with that caveat, as several other direct AAF transfers are also included.

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Oh I would dearly love to know what happened to those Vernal airplanes. Probably scrapped, or maybe sitting in someone's barn in the Uintah Basin somewhere. . . DOUBTFUL''

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