Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site afinitc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!afinitc!mvg From: mvg@afinitc.UUCP (Mark Grieshaber) Newsgroups: net.aviation,net.wanted Subject: SEARCH FOR WW II VINTAGE PLANES - HELP NEEDED. Message-ID: <183@afinitc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 22:28:08 EST Article-I.D.: afinitc.183 Posted: Wed Feb 15 22:28:08 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Feb-84 02:24:43 EST Organization: Affinitec, St. Louis MO Lines: 26 First greetings to all! Might I request some assistance? I am *EARNESTLY* searching for a WW II era vintage plane. All classes are of interest (trainers, fighters, bombers, transports), any type. Condition is no object, I am itching to jump into a major renovation project, so a plane that has not flown for 20 years is great. I am totally willing to take a plane in *ANY* condition, at *ANY* location. "Uncle Harry had a friend who used to..." type leads are fine, so long as I can figure out how to contact Uncle Harry's friend. I know such beasts exist (last month I found a T-6 in poor shape - The owner had *GIVEN* it away not too long before...), I just have to root them out. Incidentally, to those of you who may be enjoying(?) our shores as a foreign land, after WW II tons of these surplus planes made their way to other countries' air forces (almost all of South America, India, and many of the Southeast Asian countries, for example). Would any of you have relatives/friends/acquaintances either in the appropriate branch of the military, or who might know or be able to find out about any residue from long ago? *ANY* leads or information as to planes or pieces of planes would make my day, so please, if you know or can find out anything, mail it to me? Many thanks, Mark