C-47's in Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:26 am

Checking out Ruud's website and noticed these two C-47's in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/deepsouth.htm

Anyone have any updated info on these two? Are they still there? Is there anything salvageable / worth saving? Pictures?

cooper9411 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 7:32 pm

Actually one is a C53 and the other is a C47. I had someone needing parts for a C47 and I checked on them about a year-year and a half ago and someone had just completed disassembly of the aircraft the weekend before I called. The people I had talked to offered no information on who got them, or where they were taking them.

Andy Marden · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:09 am

They both went to the World War II Military Vehicle Foundation in Florala AL.
They left by Jan11 I believe.
They certainly weren't there when I went past Hattiesburg last week (as you do when you live in England....)
Andy Marden

USAMOOS

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:25 am

Good to hear they've been recovered. I cant seem to find any info on this museum. Does anybody have any links?

WallyB · **Posted:** Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:07 am

Warbird Kid wrote:

Good to hear they've been recovered. I cant seem to find any info on this museum. Does anybody have any links?

It's not a functioning museum in the normal sense. There's some correspondence about the DC-3s on this page: http://www.ruudleeuw.com/guestphotos-28.htm (scroll down a ways or search "florala").

cptsmith · **Joined:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:59 pm **Posts:** 70

I think the C-53 is in Zypherhills displeyed next to the small airport museum.

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