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ZeamerB17
PostPosted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 3:29 am 
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Interesting story:

http://www.redding.com/news/2013/mar/23 ... er=popular

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TimAPNY
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Wish they had a few more photos posted. Cool that someone found out the history of the aircraft and bothered to put it all together.

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Too bad they didn't post the serial number if they had it - neither Baugher or the Accident-Report.com site has an O-47 crash in Oregon on October 20, 1943.

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That's because it was in Trinity County, CA near Hayfork, Chris. :wink:

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38-284. Ugh. Don't ask me why I thought Redding was in Oregon - I was an English major, not a geography major :? .

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The airplane was O-47A # 38-284. The pilot got lost and ran out of fuel.
The accident is listed on AAIR. The accident report is nine pages and has no photos.
I disagree that the O-47 is the ugliest airplane.

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