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Ztex
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I saw a piece of an airplane tail, in the back of a pickup, with the number 0-50972 painted on it.

I found this on Airliners.net. Looks like the paint I saw.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0745987/L/

N8040L shows to belong to Valiant Air Command.

Has this airplane been srapped?
Anybody have more info?

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Ztex wrote:
I saw a piece of an airplane tail, in the back of a pickup, with the number 0-50972 painted on it.

I found this on Airliners.net. Looks like the paint I saw.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0745987/L/

N8040L shows to belong to Valiant Air Command.

Has this airplane been srapped?
Anybody have more info?

Thanks
Z


Sure looks like it.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1084075/M/

There are a few more there too.

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I have an immediate grasp of the obvious :shock: . I can only grasp that since you saw only the tail section in the back of a pick-up, something unpleasant has happened to it.

Mudge the grasping
(That doesn't sound right :? )

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Thought for a minute you were watching Sanford & Son reruns...I've always wondered what the elevator or rudder came off of that they have in the back of their pick-up at the beginning of the show..Ha!
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Funny story about Sanford and Son. The truck was never really messed with that much more used as a set dressing. It is now in the Smithsonian Museum of American history. While restoring a Stinson V-177, someone asked if the NASM had drawings for the rudder. One of the guys sent in a request, and we got the info back form them. They also told us that they have a rudder to a V-177 that was in the back of the truck on the set.

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Maybe they plan on flying the pickup? :?
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Tom Crawford wrote:
Thought for a minute you were watching Sanford & Son reruns...I've always wondered what the elevator or rudder came off of that they have in the back of their pick-up at the beginning of the show..Ha!
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AirJimL2 wrote:
Ztex wrote:
I saw a piece of an airplane tail, in the back of a pickup, with the number 0-50972 painted on it.

I found this on Airliners.net. Looks like the paint I saw.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0745987/L/

N8040L shows to belong to Valiant Air Command.

Has this airplane been srapped?
Anybody have more info?

Thanks
Z


Sure looks like it.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1084075/M/

There are a few more there too.

Jim


That airplane was used for parts to repair the Tico belle..................speaking of wich..................anyone have current pics on how they are doing..............................I STAND UP AND SALUTE THEM...............i still cant believe they chose to save her, she really should have been scrapped.

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For a second, I thought that was real.

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That's funny!

Thanks guys for the information...I should have plugged the N-number into airliners..time is short...when your trying to WIX and Work... :roll:

Now I have to ask around about plans for the tail here.

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Hey Zane,

I wonder if Jim Kelly bought the tail as a spare for his C-47? I'll ask around at the hangar this weekend when I'm there for the B-17 Ground School.

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Funny story about Sanford and Son. The truck was never really messed with that much more used as a set dressing. It is now in the Smithsonian Museum of American history. While restoring a Stinson V-177, someone asked if the NASM had drawings for the rudder. One of the guys sent in a request, and we got the info back form them. They also told us that they have a rudder to a V-177 that was in the back of the truck on the set.

I always thought that was a Twin Beech rudder on the tee vee show.

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I did not know, they told us that in a letter from NASM. That was in about 1995.

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I've been Googling around, but can't really find anything about the V-177..what exactly is it?

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I believe it should be V-77, the Stinson "Gullwing" Reliant (also known as the AT-19 in military service).

It was the very first plane I ever built. On its second flight, the rubber bands broke and destroyed the fuselage. It then became the very first plane I ever rebuilt.

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