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AirJimL2
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Guys.

I remember hearing a guy from El Paso had a rather strange civil(?) type under restoration with Square One about 5 or so years ago. Anyone know what it was and where it went? I want to say it was either a prototype or that last survivor of its kind...

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Hi,

I thought I had heard of an unusual restoration that was proposed about the same time period you are thinking of. The Pima Air Museum has a Columbia XJL-1....it is an amphib plane simliar to a Grumman Duck, but a monoplane. I thought I had heard that that plane was going to be put back into flying condition...but I am not sure where it was going to be done. I am probably wrong...but Square One does some really pristine work. Maybe ???
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I THINK HES TALKING ABOUT A CABIN TYPE SORTA STRANGE 50S DESIGN WITH A BULBOUS FUSALAGE :roll:

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Wasn't it an Anderson-Greenwood AG-14?

I'd have to dig out my old magazines to be sure.

Doug
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Don't know if Square One is involved, but there are remains of a privately-owned XJL-1 being (slowly) restored in Southern Calfornia. Definitely not the Pima machine.

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Aircraft Mech Paul wrote:
but Square One does some really pristine work.
Not any more.... :cry: Could this be Tom Friedkin's Columbia XJL-1 that was on rebuild at Palomar? Haven't heard that it went to Chino, but i haven't been back for 5+ years myself. :(

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