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Richard W.
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Current bid $17,750. Just out of my price range... :roll:
Fun fact: one of the previous owners, E.R. "Pony" Maples, also discovered the remains of the five Brewster Bermudas in Tullahoma, TN back in the early '70s.

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Interesting provenance summary from the above site.
http://www.mclemoreauction.com/auctionpictures/2014/0129-Maples/resources/Provenance%20Summary.pdf

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What's 'Right-Patterson'?

I had no idea any of those could have been in private hands. Wonder if any of them have been fired since recovery?

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Never mind...there's a picture of someone firing the gun in the 113-image gallery attached to the site.

Interesting conjecture that Lt. Woravka's parachute may not have opened because it was clipped on upside down, and he would have been unable to find the D-ring.

Wow.

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yup, make sure it's GROUND DELIVERED! NO AIR FREIGHT :shock:
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to many gray areas as to provenience, for starters non matching gun part components.

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Mr. Maples will be missed. He was most generous with his time and was willing to share his collection with anyone who was interested.

He had a P-51 cockpit and a B-24 cockpit. Anyone know where they went?

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tom d. friedman wrote:
to many gray areas as to provenience, for starters non matching gun part components.


Wouldn't you think that having matching serial numbered parts in one of the NMUSAF's .50's would seem to make sense? It would seem to me pretty plausible that guns would have been cleaned/worked on at the same time, and that parts could have easily been interchanged?

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I had no idea any of those could have been in private hands.

Only if it was registered during the machine gun amnesty, I think that was in 1968. Otherwise, it's a federal crime to even own the right side plate from a 'ma duce', per the National Firearm Act.

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Mr. Maples will be missed. He was most generous with his time and was willing to share his collection with anyone who was interested.

He had a P-51 cockpit and a B-24 cockpit. Anyone know where they went?

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Nick, I'm not sure about the B-24 cockpit, but his P-51D 44-72254, which is quite complete (fuselage, tail, wings (rebuilt by Pacific Fighters), and other components), were listed for sale on Courtesy Aircraft last year as a restoration project that could be made airworthy, but I don't believe it sold. It is registered as N722WR.
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Only if it was registered during the machine gun amnesty, I think that was in 1968.


Somewhere in the ad or the documentation, it stated that the previous owner did just that in 1968.
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p51 wrote:
Only if it was registered during the machine gun amnesty, I think that was in 1968.


Somewhere in the ad or the documentation, it stated that the previous owner did just that in 1968.


Here is the original form. Should be good to go from an NFA standpoint.



http://www.mclemoreauction.com/auctionp ... 201968.pdf


"Approval may take 90 days or longer".
I think it is 6-8 months on the mail in forms these days
It is at $21,000. Should go $35,000+
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