New Mustang in a Barn Yarn

[b29flteng]

There's a manure spreader in there too. Where's American Pickers when you need them...

[Obergrafeter]

Not the Pickers , but the Pawn Stars just passed on a Stinson Reliant tonight!

[Chris Brame]

Parked in the corner behind three old airplanes.

1930 Model A Ford. Nice one to fix up as a hobby; the parts are easy to find. This one might be worth about $4K in its present condition if it's as solid as it...

WHAT THREE OLD AIRPLANES?

[GARY HILTON]

I had started a thread a while back on a Corsair in a barn. I had been searching around SW Missouri for years looking for the bird in the barn. As it turned out, it was true, except for the fact that there were two of them!!! It seems that the roumors spread like wildfire after the fact, and they are long gone....Two people here on the WIX site have reassured me that my search was over..The first was a person who's father had a dealing with recovering the bent wing birds, and the second, was the person that sold them! So yes , Eugene, there is still hope in chasing the rainbow! In researching the Lockheed Harpoon, I have found that there were quite an impressive number of them that were assigned a civil registration number, only to be de-registered within five to ten years..none of these ever saw tanker duty...where did they go?? To the dark side of the moon? Oh, speaking of the moon, you guys gotta get over the B-32 thing like I finally did...I got some inside info that some hippies scrapped her out for some good stuff long ago.

[Django]

Parked in the corner behind three old airplanes.

1930 Model A Ford. Nice one to fix up as a hobby; the parts are easy to find. This one might be worth about $4K in its present condition if it's as solid as it...

WHAT THREE OLD AIRPLANES?

My point exactly. If it was a '32 (Deuce) instead of a '30/31 Model A, you could add a "2" in front of that $4k.

[N3Njeff]

Well we got wind of a biplane in a barn so we checked it out and when we opened the door and seen that it was "ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE" we closed the door and kept going!

[whistlingdeath77]

i went looking for a p-40 one time in a barn in Conn. only to find nothing but looks from people that were watching me. Prob. long gone

[daveymac82c]

Speaking of Corsairs, wasn't there a farmer who knew of a Corsair that crashed into a lake on his property, but hasn't recovered it yet, knowing the Navy would probably take it away? Maybe I've got my stories mixed up, but I think something like that was discussed here on WIX.

That kind of thing should be recovered and restored in secrecy... Kinda like putting planes on the moon. Top secret.

Peace,

David M

[N3Njeff]

Speaking of Corsairs, wasn't there a farmer who knew of a Corsair that crashed into a lake on his property, but hasn't recovered it yet, knowing the Navy would probably take it away? Maybe I've got my stories mixed up, but I think something like that was discussed here on WIX.

That kind of thing should be recovered and restored in secrecy... Kinda like putting planes on the moon. Top secret.

Peace,

David M

I remember the same too.

[warbird_patrick]

I heard tale of a P-6 fuselage that had been stored in a semi trailer in Jackson until the gentleman who owned it passed away. It was supposedly owned by Jack Taft, who also had a P-400 and a BT-14 so you never know, but until I see pics or see it in person, I'm going to remain very skeptical.

As far as this P-51 story goes, I would think that there would have been some sort of record somewhere that would be able to confirm it. There's gotta be some sort of paperwork that would involve a P-51 transferring from military to civilian ownership, no? Even if it was trucked or moved in some other way. It would be really cool if the story was true, but it seems to me there would have at least been some sort of evidence that it still existed before now.

...It was supposedly owned by Jack Taft, who also had a P-400 and a BT-14...

Any idea who now owns Jack Taft's P-400? I didn't realize it had changed hands.

Jacks barn find was true, as i am the owner of his NA-64 3383. Jacks farm was a site to see. I did see the P-400, a PT-19, 2 Allison 1710's, what appeared to be 2 Curtiss V-1570 V-12's which were used in the early P-6 Hawk, 6 Ranger engines, stacks of propellers, Wheels and tires all the way from P-51 to B-25. There were a couple of old semi trailers out side behind the hanger with a couple of huge pad locks on them, I had a neighbor and a close friend of Jacks that was there that day confirm that there was indeed parts to a P-6 in the trailers. Once I recovered the Yale out of there I went back to go through the rest of the stuff but it was all sold off.

Here are the coordinates to Jacks back farm: 42.328066,-84.395157 : if you zoom in you can see the two trailers, two barns and the Yale in the left corner near the woods.
Here are the coordinates to Jacks main farm: 42.326636,-84.387296 : You can see the two barns and one hanger. The hanger had the P-400 and PT-19

[ZRX61]

There are still discoveries going on every year. Remember the japanese camp found this week untouched since WW II?

huh?

[airknocker]

Here is a similar thread from supercub.org
http://www.supercub.org/phpbb2/viewtopi ... plane+barn
By the way the pics of the PT-19s were taken on the south side of Berlin, NY, along with a Faichild 24, Piper J-5 and an Aeronca 11AC. There was a Stearman outside when I was there in '76.

[warbird1]

There are still discoveries going on every year. Remember the japanese camp found this week untouched since WW II?

huh?

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=36421

[whistlingdeath77]

there was a corsair wreck up in new york a while back. Most of the plane was still there due to the woods and no way to get vehicles up there. It was picked at for years until one day a guy got wind of it and went up there and took everything, including the engine AND .50 cals. It was an f4u-4. I bought bits and pieces of it at the time from another source, but the other guy was a jerk and wouldnt give me any details nor a list of parts for sale. Even though he was a military army and navy store owner.