Civil(?) aircraft under restoration at Square One
Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:43 pm
Guys.
I remember hearing a guy from El Paso had a rather strange civil(?) type under restoration with Square One about 5 or so years ago. Anyone know what it was and where it went? I want to say it was either a prototype or that last survivor of its kind...
Jim
I remember hearing a guy from El Paso had a rather strange civil(?) type under restoration with Square One about 5 or so years ago. Anyone know what it was and where it went? I want to say it was either a prototype or that last survivor of its kind...
Jim
Sat Feb 12, 2005 6:53 pm
Hi,
I thought I had heard of an unusual restoration that was proposed about the same time period you are thinking of. The Pima Air Museum has a Columbia XJL-1....it is an amphib plane simliar to a Grumman Duck, but a monoplane. I thought I had heard that that plane was going to be put back into flying condition...but I am not sure where it was going to be done. I am probably wrong...but Square One does some really pristine work. Maybe ???
I thought I had heard of an unusual restoration that was proposed about the same time period you are thinking of. The Pima Air Museum has a Columbia XJL-1....it is an amphib plane simliar to a Grumman Duck, but a monoplane. I thought I had heard that that plane was going to be put back into flying condition...but I am not sure where it was going to be done. I am probably wrong...but Square One does some really pristine work. Maybe ???
Sat Feb 12, 2005 7:32 pm
I THINK HES TALKING ABOUT A CABIN TYPE SORTA STRANGE 50S DESIGN WITH A BULBOUS FUSALAGE 
Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:54 pm
Wasn't it an Anderson-Greenwood AG-14?
I'd have to dig out my old magazines to be sure.
Doug
I'd have to dig out my old magazines to be sure.
Doug
Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:31 pm
Don't know if Square One is involved, but there are remains of a privately-owned XJL-1 being (slowly) restored in Southern Calfornia. Definitely not the Pima machine.
Sat Feb 12, 2005 11:34 pm
Not any more....Aircraft Mech Paul wrote:but Square One does some really pristine work.
Could this be Tom Friedkin's Columbia XJL-1 that was on rebuild at Palomar? Haven't heard that it went to Chino, but i haven't been back for 5+ years myself. 
T J