another brewster buffalo question......

[airnutz]

The saga of who recovered and 'owned' that aircraft does fill a book, and it did, I understood, end up in Finnish hands, loaned to the NMUSNA - but you may be correct it was obtained by the US Navy. Can you confirm?

Sure James, that scenario is possible....If the Navy out of the goodness of their peapickin' little hearts GAVE the Finn's 3 surplus P-3 Orions to pay off the Russian mob.

[Steve]

"Earl Rhineheart of Illinois? claimed to have one in the 1960s and 1970s and was keeping it hidden from the Navy. Supposedly this example was lost in a barn fire."

"Brewster F2A-3 N9622C dismantled and minus tail, ex Naval Technical School"

"Veteran and Vintage Aircraft 4th edition"

Steve

[L. Thompson]

Though I believe Earl Reinert (Victory Air Museum Mundelein, IL) did have a substantial Buffalo airframe it was not N9622C, The Veteran and Vintage Aircraft editions were a huge inspiration to me in my teenage years exhaustively researching existing warbirds, but the books were always riddled with errors such as this:

N9622C was a North American B-25J-25/27-NC Mitchell, 44-30243, (became a TB-25J) that was part of Reinert's collection for a time.

The July 1, 1964 United States Civil Aircraft Register does not list any Brewster built aircraft besides "Brewster Fleet" 1 thru 10 models. I strongly doubt that Earl ever received a civil registration for his Brewster, or that he possessed what would pass for a legal bill of sale for it.

The 1964 Register, by the way, had 9622C registered to Aero Enterpises of La Porte, IN at the time.