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RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:54 pm

So who can find out where / when?

Thought it was a pretty shot.

Ryan

retroaviation · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:56 pm

Pima has one hanging up (or at least a similar model), and we have one in pieces here at the CAF. I don't know where any others are, but I would imagine the bigger museums have one (Pennsecola, Air Force Museum, etc.). Either way, it's a neat little machine. Thanks for posting the picture.

Gary

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:59 pm

Correct Gary both the NMUSAF and NMNA have an example. They are cool.

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:08 pm

Ones up in the NEAM in Windsor Locks.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:41 pm

Jack Lenhardt did at lest 3 of these for a couple Military museums. Plus numerous vinatage military choppers. 99% of the EVG choppers are his.

old iron · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:47 pm

not to mention the beauty at Udvar-Hazy.

Kevin,
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bilwor · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:05 pm

The one at PASM has gone back to the US Army Aviation Museum, Ft Rucker.
bill word

tom d. friedman · **Posted:** Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:26 pm

if it's a ww 2 pic, then the pacific, very late toward the end of the war. being over water throws me off though. there was 1 operational mission in burma where a few casualties were rescued / medevaced, it was historic.

Forgotten Field · **Posted:** Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:09 am

Tacloban field, right next to Leyte Gulf, had a few R-4's in place by 1945. They were used for liaison work, but didn't do too well due to high density altitude most of the time.

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:53 am

tom d. friedman wrote:

if it's a ww 2 pic, then the pacific, very late toward the end of the war. being over water throws me off though. there was 1 operational mission in burma where a few casualties were rescued / medevaced, it was historic.

I've got pictures of that one, but this is somewhere else...

Ryan

RyanShort1 · **Posted:** Sat Jun 28, 2008 6:53 am

Forgotten Field wrote:

Tacloban field, right next to Leyte Gulf, had a few R-4's in place by 1945. They were used for liaison work, but didn't do too well due to high density altitude most of the time.

Not Leyte either... I think I've got pictures of that one as well.

Ryan

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:39 am

tom d. friedman wrote:

if it's a ww 2 pic, then the pacific, very late toward the end of the war. being over water throws me off though. there was 1 operational mission in burma where a few casualties were rescued / medevaced, it was historic.

It was the ancestor of what I do now. My company is very proud of the history of medevac and it's roots in the military.

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