Looking for information on Whitey Wannamaker

[GARY HILTON]

While I was in Canton, Ohio last week, I was delivering to a business there when the reciever at the particular company noticed my hat....It has PV-2 and the N number of my bird underneath it...He started telling me about his father...Whitey...and that he used to have a Navy plane...What he described was a PBY....But he said that his father had more than one....He described one flight in particular with his father and a friend in what I believe to be T-6 or SNJ's..got into a dogfight and his father forgot about him in the back seat...almost made a big mess!

Anyway, he told me that his dad had passed a few years back...He mentioned that his father had remarried and lived in Colorado, I think I remember him saying the Co. Springs area.....

I don't ever remember hearing of a PBY based in that area, but maybe someone here at WIX might....I told him that I would try to help track down his fathers aircraft....

From what the fellow told me, Whitey was quite the flyer, and a character...

I gave him my bus. card with the WIX web address on it, and hope he will be joining us....I'll let him introduce himself..

Gary

[Dan K]

Gary, this is the bird I remember Mr. Wannamaker driving--now with LSFM.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/pv2harpo ... 37634.html

[GARY HILTON]

Thanks Dan, that would be the one! His son had me believing it might have been a PBY that he owned, but he very well could have flown one..

Is this the one that got damaged in Houston last year in the hurricane/flood?