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Thanks for the reply, looks to be another aircraft as this was close to a year ago I believe and the aircraft is still down in Louisiana. That aircraft, while missing the control surfaces looks like a pretty nice project aircraft as it still has bomb bay doors, turret hole, nose etc look pretty original.
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Not sure - but perhaps someone can trace the registration?

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Ryan - yes it was cool to see this one with the bomb bays in tact.

On a side note - I was hoping to see the Zero - they used to display it in the main building but it has moved out. Does anyone know where it might be? IIRC it was an A6M5.

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I was told (IIRC) when I visited in January that the previous owner had flown the Cat (PBY) in and donated it to Weeks' collection.

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He does fly the B-26 every once in a great while.

A very great while. Does anyone know when the last time the a/c was actually flown? I'm betting years rather than months.

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I think that you might be right. I was at Oshkosh when he first got it, and they flew it there. It is a very early B-26.

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He does fly the B-26 every once in a great while.

A very great while. Does anyone know when the last time the a/c was actually flown? I'm betting years rather than months.


I seem to remember someone here saying a few years back, that was '98 or '99 since she last flew.
It's somewhere here in the archives...

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I was lucky enough to see the Marauder fly in 1998 when Kirmit made a surprise visit to Warbirds Over Kalamazoo. He dropped in for the afternoon on his way from the Selfridge Air Show to Oshkosh. I heard that once there an engine started making metal. He eventually got her back to Florida, but I haven't heard of her flying since. Too bad..she's probably the only Marauder that will ever be airworthy.

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Kermit did fly the B-26 over to Sun n Fun in 1999, after the gathering of Mustangs. Maybe not him flying, but the plane was there.
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So, nothing after '99? Most of a decade.

Pity. But if my toybox was that packed, I'd find it difficult to play with them all.

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