Warbird Information Exchange

A few years ago in either Air Classics or Warbirds magazine there was an article about a O-47 being trucked through a town. Does anyone know if this O-47 is still around?

Thanks,
Nate

I don't have the magazine but the 0-47 is still just like you saw it back then. It's at the Combat air museum here in Topeka, KS just two hanger south of us. The 0-47 belongs to Bill dempsey of Rantoul, KS. and has been in the museum since it was moved. No work has ever been done to it, but it is a Very Very clean airframe and with a new engine could be made into a flyer easily.

The Air Classics article by Gene Smith was in the November 1982 issue, Vol. 18, No. 11, pages 34-36, and 58-65. A good article well documented with photos as the airplane was towed out of the little crossroads town of Rantoul, Kansas. I sent AC some negatives of the O-47B, 39-98, c/n 51-1011. N73716 and other derelict warbirds when still at Rantoul with D & D AERO SPRAY (Bill Dempsey) in the winter of 1973-74. Three photos were printed in the May 1974 Warbird Report but I never saw my negatives again despite the SASE.

The airplane is still registered to D & D but can be seen at the Combat Air Museum, in Topeka, KS.

Thanks guys! Im glad the airplane is still around. But I would LOVE to see it be made flying!

-Nathan

Ahhh....the infamous Michael O'Leary Photo Collection.