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Warbirds - South for their final Winter

Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:19 am

Greetings
I was wondering just about how many differnt type of Warbirds went to South America,after they were deemed surplus here is the States ? How many might still be their ? Is their a Bone yard of the Amazon ?

Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:06 pm

Just to mention a few (off the top of my head):

P-26
P-36
P-38
P-40
P-47
P-51
F6F


AT-6s and T-6G
C-47s
C-46s
B-17s
C-45s
C-54s
C-118s
C-123s
C-130s

PT-13
PT-17
PT-19
PT-23
PT-26
N3-N

BT-13

T-28
T-33
AT-33
T-37C
A-37B
OA-37B
OV-10
OV-1
O-1 / L-19 (very few)
F-86s
A-4s
F-9 (Argentina)

PV-1
AT-11
UC-78

PBYs


I know there are many more types that went South. Nothing per se as an "Amazonas" graveyard, but you can find some derelicts in some airfields (still one or two Catalinas for example, in Colombia)

Saludos,


Tulio
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