Fly-In At Lenhardt's Strip

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 2:07 pm

They had a small fly-in at Jack Lenhardt's Airpack to dedicate a bench outside the office in his memory.
It was a great day with many good friends in attendence, nice old a/c, good polish dogs and ice cold pop!

Sam Richardson's new Chipmunk

BT-13A N9743N

Bill Compton gentleman farmer, aviator and 40 year friend.......

JBoyle · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:37 pm

Is that the same Lenhardt that restored several old helicopters which are now on display at McMinnville?

BTW: the Chipmunk reminds me of the Seattle-area crash of a RCMP-painted example one ot two years ago...it came down in one piece but its backwas broken.
Anyone know what happened to the airframe or whether any parts were salvaged?

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:03 pm

Jack was THE vintage helo expert! He restored a number of vintage egg beaters inc all the one at EVG plus 3 R-4s
for the Army and Navy plus a couple WACO gliders one which is in the AF museum. He was also one of the first to
restore a WWII aircraft and paint it in correct marking back in 1974. He had numberous warbirds inc FM-2, SNJ, AT-6,
C-47, Otter, L-4, UPF-7 and a couple PT-17s. He was a awesome guy! He also built the Bleriot replica at EVG.

Chris · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:28 pm

Great stuff Jack. Is Bill Compton doing any type of work on the F6F or is he holding on to it hoping to sell it one day?

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:49 pm

Yes, no or maybe....................
Bill's is very poor health and everything else is secondary.
He got all stoaked when he heard I was coming and this is
the first he's been outside in over a month. We made it all
the way to the hanger. Bill and his walker and me and my very bum knee!
I posted a ton of pics on my facebook page. Those American Pickers would
go to hog heaven at Bill's place! If they like old airplane stuff that is.
Engines engines engines! OX-5s to a P & W T34 turboprop engine that once
drug Liberty Belle around.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:51 pm

BTW the Chipmunk that crashed a while back was Stu Smith's from Camano Island.
Not sure what became of it. I think he still has his SNJ-5.

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:33 pm

is the prop on the pt 19 a sensenich?? i'm selling / brokering 1 that still has the middle hub portion but not the cone tip, a not often seen feature on old props. i'm going to contact sensenich & have the serials ran to see what it came off of. it's a sweetheart of a prop!!

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:35 pm

no idea except it a PT-22 :shock:

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:39 pm

oops!! no more gin & tonics tonight!! :oops:

snj-5 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 11:31 pm

I believe that crashed Chipmunk salvage went to Ike Inns.

Bela P. Havasreti

gliderman1 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:11 am

"... plus a couple WACO gliders one which is in the AF museum."

So as to not warp history, are you sure the two CG-4A gliders he rebuilt are not at Fayetteville, NC (SOPS) and Columbus, GA (Inf.Mus-Benning) and the CG-4A at NMUSAF was done much earlier by someone else?

troliver · **Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:16 am

That's an interesting looking canopy on that Chipmunk. Did any Chippies ever serve with a canopy of that design or is it an entirely civil mod?

JBoyle · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:14 pm

All but the earliest Canadian military Chipmunks had that canopy.
The RAF's had the square flat one.

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