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valdez25
 Post subject: Re: DC-3 fuselage
PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:39 pm 
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Got a email from the CAF in regard to a C-47 about to be scrapped. Here's the contact from the email.... Philip Beegle III
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Cell: 770-262-5685
Pbeegle@blueskycharter.com If you want me to forward the pictures, my email is warbirdridesusa@gmail.com

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:02 pm 
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Hey thats me.

Just got back from looking at the airplane, located at camp Shelby in Ms, in my mind it will never fly again; however; it will make a great static display. If anyone is interested please give me a call and I will put you intouch with the guy who is working on it.

I will post some pics tonight.

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Chris Brame
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MapQuest aerial view shows two DC-3s at the end of a closed runway at the Hattiesburg, MS airport east of Camp Shelby - is it one of those?

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Eric Friedebach
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Here’s a couple of the pictures I received a few days ago from CAF HQ:

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Pathfinder
 Post subject: Re: DC-3 fuselage
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Does she have an N-number or mfg. s/n?
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I want to know more about the Jeep under the nose!!!

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N3Njeff!!!

This is the genius (dare I say mechanical god) who CC'd 42-93096 when she was N58NA---"096" was D-Day Pathfinder plane Chalk 17 now preserved forever on the ceiling at the National WW2 Museum in New Orleans!

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Pathfinder wrote:
N3Njeff!!!

This is the genius (dare I say mechanical god) who CC'd 42-93096 when she was N58NA---"096" was D-Day Pathfinder plane Chalk 17 now preserved forever on the ceiling at the National WW2 Museum in New Orleans!

I salute you!

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I never got to work on her as I was only 13 when she was here in VT but I did help mask off markings with my dad when we painted her. So yea I know the airplane!! Thanks for finding her history...............too bad that she is painted the way she is now..........think we were alot closer. Not to mention, they changed the props.

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This the airplane that is going to be scrapped?????

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