Warbird Information Exchange

This was posted on another forum, kind of interesting. The aircraft start on Page 11.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR- ... -02-08.pdf

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45-47=-2

One of the Curtiss Seagulls would have been nice!

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Kevin McCartney

Some very obsolete types listed! Hard to believe any of these were still in the inventory:
Northrop A-17
Curtiss A-18 (Shrike II) - per Baugher, last one WFU in 1943
Douglas C-33
Douglas O-25 - out of service by 1939, but several went to Class 26
Douglas O-38
Republic (sic) P-35
North American BC-1

No B-18s, oddly. And why is the P-80 on the list??

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

What floors me is the asking selling price.

Yes I know it is old. But I am just thinking of the initial cost vs the selling price of a lot of these as new airframes!

- 150$ for a P-61
- BTY what is a Bell Airecemot!!!! 150$ (twin engine)
- P-80 150$
- AT-12 100$
- F7F 150$
- PBY 150$ !!!!! yikes!

The most priceless item on the list for me is a PB2Y Coronado at 350$...........................

Or if you are budget strapped....a TBY Sea Wolf at 100$

In the preceding paragraph it notes these prices are for” educational and public health institutions or instrumentalities” . Not for general public.Bell P59 airacomet twin jet fighter. Obviously a typo

After the war when my grandfather got out of the Navy, he worked at a vocational technical school in upstate New York. He once told me about getting a brand new P-47 delivered for the students to practice working on.