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In the late 1970's the "Reverand" Junior Burchinal moved this and other aircraft to the Orlando area. It was possibly Kissimmee or the former Air Force Base that is now Orlando Intl. Airport. As I remember it, I think he had a B-25, A-26, T-33, Mustang, C-47, and possibly a Grumman F9f Cougar etc. Everything was in terrible shape by today's standards.
The Corsair had a hand painted blue paint job. Painted with a mop or large paint brush. The airplane hand an unimaginabley large amount of oil on the fuselage belly, sides, canopy, wings, everywhere. All of his aircraft were notorious for the oil leaks, drips, seeps, weeps, Junior had his own vocabulary for them.
The fascinating thing about this Corsair was that it was DUAL CONTROL!!
It had a large chunk of the fuselage cut away behind the pilots seat with a large plexiglass arrangement. the interior was fashioned from crude slabs of plywood and it had a second stick, throttle etc.
The best part of "Reverend" Burchinals ministry is that you could donate to his "church" and receive flight instruction and checkouts. After checking out, you could SOLO and rent the aircraft as desired. THis also included his dual control P-38 !!!
I'm not making this stuff up.
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