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GARY HILTON
 Post subject: Re: Looking for Poons
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Andy Marden
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Andy Marden wrote:

Gary,
N6853C and N6857C were both still stored at Lafayette RAP LA in Jan08.
I have no reports on N7224C.
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Gary,
One of my spies tells me that the pair at Lafayette have moved to Abbeville/Chris Crusta Memorial Airport.
As of 2nd January this year they were sitting in the open on the corner of Young A. Broussard Drive and Revis Sermon Loop.
Both have open doors and can be entered apparently.
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GARY HILTON
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Thank You Andy!
I will be down there in a few days....Getting a Beech Bonanza loaded up here in Minnesota.....-19 F.....I can't wait to get to Florida with this load!!!!!!
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PJ
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Please take and post some pictures, Gary!

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GARY HILTON
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Craig59
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Gary,

I stumbled upon this while searching for something else and thought of this post. It's post-Katrina pix from Louisiana.

http://www.stockwellphotos.com/images_large/CS-KAT025.jpg

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GARY HILTON
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Craig59....I have seen similar pics...the aircraft is a Lodestar/C-60/L-18/Howard...in a bad situation. Thx!
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Andy Marden
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Craig59 wrote:
Gary,

I stumbled upon this while searching for something else and thought of this post. It's post-Katrina pix from Louisiana.

http://www.stockwellphotos.com/images_large/CS-KAT025.jpg


It's N250X, the former R5O-5 BuNo 12487. Does anyone know if it is still there, or is it now Coke cans?
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GARY HILTON
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I found them last night! Pics coming soon..
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This is Fat Cat....N6857C 15-1216 37250
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GARY HILTON
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The 2nd PV...N6853C 15-1125 37159

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PJ
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What a waste. Did you get a look inside them, Gary? Any plans for restoration on either one?

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HMFischer
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Once upon a time, mid 1980s?, there was a Lockheed twin engine plane in the twin cities. It was along Hwy 280 and about Larpenteur just north of the midway area. It was close to an electric sub station. What I remember about it was, it was a test bed for aviation instruments and lightning strikes. A program that Honeywell and maybe the University of Minnesota were working on? I though I had a newspaper artical on this plane but I could not find it. Does anyone know what happened to that plane? I think it was OD so it may have been a B-34 or C-60. Hugh

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GARY HILTON
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Hugh.....This aircraft, a B-34...is still with us...located at the museum at the airport in Pueblo, Co.
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Saw this on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/WWII-LOC ... 4ced3eb1c3


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