Warbird Information Exchange

Can anyone help me with the following?

I've been trying to find someone with a "warbird" in the central NC area who might be willing to allow me to help out with some of its maintenance etc. just so that I can get more experience with them.

Toward that end, I have been browsing through the FAA aircraft registration database for NC, county by county. Two of the interesting possibilities were a Twin Beech in Trinity (near High Point) and a C-47 in Raleigh - except that those registrations go back to the 1970's and I can't find any current information about those aircraft.

Are there any C-47/DC-3 experts out there who know what happened to:
N61722, Douglas c/n 20077, built as a C-47A-85-DL (according to Baugher) with USAAC s/n 43-15611 (I interpolated.) It is still registered (since 1979) to Ronald Sutton of Creedmoor Road in Raleigh (the FAA has it as "Creedroom Rd" but that must be a typo.)

I found a 1979 photo of it in Long Beach, CA on www.airliners.net at:
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Douglas- ... 10ffaa4502

Also, are there any Beech 18/C-45 experts out there (and I know about Taigh Ramey, I just didn't necessarily assume that he'd know about an almost 40 year old registration from the East coast...) who might know about:
N75418, a 1942 Beech C18S, c/n 4245, registered to a Charles A Spillman Jr of Trinity, NC in June, 1970, but the current database entry contains a notation that it was "revoked", but I don't know how to be able to tell exactly when or why.

Apparently, there was a Charles A Spillman who had a skydiving operation there in the 1970's, but the only "Jr" I found with connections to that area, I assume to be the son of the skydiver, would have only been about 10 years old in 1970, got his A&P in 1979, a pilot's license about 1990, and now lives in Florida. He also has a parachute rigger's certificate, so that does tie in. I wrote to him but haven't heard anything back yet.

There was also a Cessna 337B listed that was also registered to a Charles A Spillman Jr. in Trinity, NC, but the mailbox number was different*. It was (is) N2434S, s/n 337-0734 and it was registered in 1981 (*so maybe they moved between 1970 and 1981.)

Any help or additional information that you can provide to me about these aircraft would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

You could volunteer at the Museum in Charlotte. They have flyers and statics.

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