Fly-In At Lenhardt's Strip

[Jack Cook]

They had a small fly-in at Jack Lenhardt's Airpack to dedicate a bench outside the office in his memory.
It was a great day with many good friends in attendence, nice old a/c, good polish dogs and ice cold pop!

Sam Richardson's new Chipmunk





BT-13A N9743N























Bill Compton gentleman farmer, aviator and 40 year friend.......

[JBoyle]

Is that the same Lenhardt that restored several old helicopters which are now on display at McMinnville?

BTW: the Chipmunk reminds me of the Seattle-area crash of a RCMP-painted example one ot two years ago...it came down in one piece but its backwas broken.
Anyone know what happened to the airframe or whether any parts were salvaged?

[Jack Cook]

Jack was THE vintage helo expert! He restored a number of vintage egg beaters inc all the one at EVG plus 3 R-4s
for the Army and Navy plus a couple WACO gliders one which is in the AF museum. He was also one of the first to
restore a WWII aircraft and paint it in correct marking back in 1974. He had numberous warbirds inc FM-2, SNJ, AT-6,
C-47, Otter, L-4, UPF-7 and a couple PT-17s. He was a awesome guy! He also built the Bleriot replica at EVG.

[Chris]

Great stuff Jack. Is Bill Compton doing any type of work on the F6F or is he holding on to it hoping to sell it one day?

[Jack Cook]

Yes, no or maybe....................
Bill's is very poor health and everything else is secondary.
He got all stoaked when he heard I was coming and this is
the first he's been outside in over a month. We made it all
the way to the hanger. Bill and his walker and me and my very bum knee!
I posted a ton of pics on my facebook page. Those American Pickers would
go to hog heaven at Bill's place! If they like old airplane stuff that is.
Engines engines engines! OX-5s to a P & W T34 turboprop engine that once
drug Liberty Belle around.

[Jack Cook]

BTW the Chipmunk that crashed a while back was Stu Smith's from Camano Island.
Not sure what became of it. I think he still has his SNJ-5.

[tom d. friedman]

is the prop on the pt 19 a sensenich?? i'm selling / brokering 1 that still has the middle hub portion but not the cone tip, a not often seen feature on old props. i'm going to contact sensenich & have the serials ran to see what it came off of. it's a sweetheart of a prop!!

[Jack Cook]

no idea except it a PT-22

[tom d. friedman]

oops!! no more gin & tonics tonight!!

[snj-5]

I believe that crashed Chipmunk salvage went to Ike Inns.

Bela P. Havasreti

[gliderman1]

"... plus a couple WACO gliders one which is in the AF museum."

So as to not warp history, are you sure the two CG-4A gliders he rebuilt are not at Fayetteville, NC (SOPS) and Columbus, GA (Inf.Mus-Benning) and the CG-4A at NMUSAF was done much earlier by someone else?

[troliver]

That's an interesting looking canopy on that Chipmunk. Did any Chippies ever serve with a canopy of that design or is it an entirely civil mod?

[JBoyle]

All but the earliest Canadian military Chipmunks had that canopy.
The RAF's had the square flat one.