Has anybody heard of this? I'd love to know where exactly they found it. I figured scenarios like this would be all but history now
Courtesy: KTVB.com
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"WWII plane buffs find rare aircraft in Idaho, plan to restore it
11:24 AM MST on Monday, December 18, 2006
Associated Press
PINE BLUFF, Ark. -- Three years ago, a national group called the Commemorative Air Force, formerly known as the Confederate Air Force, decided that a Fairchild PT-19 that it owned that was based at Pine Bluff, Arkansas should be based instead at Midland, Texas.
That began a search by members of the Razorback Experimental Aviation Association for a replacement PT-19.
The PT-19 was the plane used at the Pine Bluff School of Aviation, one of the Army Air Corps' largest primary flight schools during World War Two.
Members of the local group didn't want Pine Bluff to be without one.
In April, they found one hidden away in a dusty, old, cobweb-covered hangar in Idaho, where it had been for more than 40 years, and six members of the group bought it.
They paid $10,000 for the plane, and $2,000 to have it moved to Arkansas.
Now, the plane's owners are working to restore the aircraft so it can fly again. And a lot of work is needed.
One of the owners, Glenn Bell, says a family of woodchucks had taken up residence in the wings of the airplane where it sat in the hangar in Idaho.
Clarence Rittelmeyer, a retired surgeon and aircraft mechanic, spends at least four hours a day, five days a week working on the plane.
But he says it'll be two years before the plane gets into the air again."
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