42-29150 Dottie May Status

[Originalboxcar]

As RR always says "OK FOLKS", it's been over a year now since this was recovered, anyone with the current status, location, etc...?

I can't even find it in the registry!




regards,

t~

[DaveM2]

Its been turned up the right way....no , I kid you not! ( this was a recent event)

Dave

[Originalboxcar]

Its been turned up the right way....no , I kid you not! ( this was a recent event)

Dave

Funny guy! So who's doing the work again? Who's the owner? PHOTOS!

Please

regards,


t~

[DaveM2]

Aircraft is stored in a private hangar at Chino. Some inspection work has been done, but otherwise the significant event took place on April 17, as mentioned, the aircraft was turned the right way up for the first time in 61 years.

Dave

[marine air]

If I were the owner I would trade Dottie Mae for a flyable P-47. There are several museums that have airworthy or almost airworthy P-47's that could easily be serviced and flyable, Kalamazoo's and Yanks air museum are two that come to mind.
That way Dottie Mae's current owner could get a flyable P-47 for half the current cost to restore one and he could be on the airshow circuit before the end of summer.
This would be the best of both worlds. It would put another T-bolt back in the air and airshow circuit, he would save a few hundred thousand bucks, and Dottie Mae could be cleaned, preserved, and put on display as the archealogic timepiece that it currently is.
Just a thought...

[Django]

Where was the recovery? I'd guess a freshwater lake somewhere since it is so nice.

[DaveM2]

Lk.Traun, Austria.

Dave

[FlyingFortB17]

Interesting to note that "Dottie Mae" was the last American aircraft shot down over Europe Before VE-Day.

[Shade Ruff]

Interesting to note that "Dottie Mae" was the last American aircraft shot down over Europe Before VE-Day.

Whereas "Dottie Mae" may have been the last U.S. aircraft lost before the cessation of hostilities, it was not shot down. Unlike Kidd Hofer's P-51B (which went down in a German lake due to either AAA fire or a H/T line strike), "Dottie Mae's" demise was due to its pilot buzzing the lake. He was so low that his prop struck the lake's surface resulting in the crash.

Regards,

Shade Ruff

[bdk]

If I were the owner I would trade Dottie Mae for a flyable P-47.

Perhaps you should make an offer????

The airplane is in safe storage. The owner has another project to complete first. Hopefully the timeline will be acceptable to you.

[Jiggersfromsphilly]

BDK,

Can you give us a rough timeline of when work may be started on Dottie May? Just out of curiosity, what is the project and is it near completion?

Thank You

[Django]

I hope they keep her "Dottie May" and not something else.

[Jack Cook]

Dottie Mae's" demise was due to its pilot buzzing the lake. He was so low that his prop struck the lake's surface resulting in the crash.

Henry Mohr was not buzzing the Lake. He was rejoining his flight which was low over the lake while on a armed recce
of POW camps and touched the surface of the lake. He wasn't goofing off, flathatting or whatever.

[FlyingFortB17]

Looking at the minimal damage done, I take it he survived?

[Jack Cook]

I take it he survived?

Barely because he was exhausted getting out of the a/c, wasn't a good swimmer and didn't have a Mae West on. A guy in a rowboat stuck a oar down in the water and Mohr grabbed it has he was sinking to the bottom.