Lake Washington PB4Y-2 Privateer

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Glen
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Lake Washington PB4Y-2 Privateer

Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:54 pm

Greetings
Is their any plans to salavage the PB4Y-2 Bomber from Lake Washington ? This Aircraft was station at Sand Point Naval Air Station when the Crash occured on Aug 26 1956 #59695 in over 130fT of water .
sounds like it is in fairly intack And a up right postion . any input would greatly appericated.
Pat Carry
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Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:36 pm

Isnt this the one the Navy tried to recover a number of years ago but it fell apart during the recovery process?
bdk
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Mon Jun 25, 2007 12:32 am

Pat Carry wrote:Isnt this the one the Navy tried to recover a number of years ago but it fell apart during the recovery process?
No, you are thinking of the Mariner:

http://members.tripod.com/~manchurianhitchcock/pbm-5supp
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