Warbird Information Exchange

As a young'un growing up in Seattle in the 70s and 80s, there was never that big of a warbird scene there. I am guilty of, as soon as I got my license, making the 2.5 hour drive to Portland -- only to see the apocryphal 'bomber gasoline' that was pictured in one of my books on the B-17.

I made that trip probably 4 or 5 times while I lived up there, and always dreamed that I could buy that thing off the top of the gas station and make it my own warbird.

He restored 1 CG-4 for Fort Rucker plus 2 R-4s for them and the 2nd CG-4 he did for the AF Museum. He restored and had 5 or 6 other vintage military copters and had a small museum at his airstrip but everything is at Evergreen now. These included a Bell OH13E, Hiller OH23B, Sikorsky H-19, Bell HTL-3 (VMO-6 Korea combat vet), Sikorsky S-51 and another that went to Ft Rucker along with the CG-4-R-4s and a couple others.

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As far as the Evergreen museum, If you want to meet Stan Richardson, and talk to him - he works on Sundays. He flew P-38's, got shot down, escaped, came back to fly P-51's, went on to fly F-86's in Korea. A really neat guy with a lot of interesting stories. We also have a guy who flew 30 missions in a B-17 in the ETO, as well as a guy who flew P-61's. And that's just on Sundays.

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Capt Stan Richardson and ground crew 338th Fighter Squadron
P-38J CL*X s/n 42-67303

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