Warbird Information Exchange

It will be neat to see what he did own. Maybe, some of them will get back flying with new owners. Who knows what might be stashed away somewhere. I'm sure as time goes we will get a complete list.

Steve

Does anyone know just how many warbirds he "owns"? I cant think of the right way to say that...

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(Per Tom's reply, I've edited my response and will save it for some other day.)

My condolenses to family and friends.

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Roger Cain
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We must limit politicians to two terms:
one in office and one in jail.

honestly...... all valid points & concerns & curiosity, i'm no different, but let's lay the man to rest before all the speculation blooms. it's sad somebody of high profile has to have a dead pool.

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My condolences to his family and friends. He was without a doubt, one of the pioneer movers, shakers, and icons of the warbird business. Rest in peace and thank you.

If anyone has a list of just what all this gentleman had/has had in his stable over the years I'd sure like to see it.

Dan

Tom;
I agree with you about laying a great man to rest.

I talked with Mr Tallichet a few times going back to the late 1960's and anyone who knew him or talked with him knows he could tell stories about he's adventures and his aircraft forever. He would find it amusing that we would be wondering about his collection.

No disrespect to him

Steve

Col Rohr had a list, as he was doing Tallichet's story, so a search should turn it up ( in the current archives)

Dave

Sorry to see he died. He did a lot of good things and did them at a time when NOBODY else was recovering planes, or restoring some of the types he did. HE made some great accomplishments.

I can say something else too. I was a lawyer for 17 years and spent a lot of time around estates and collections. I do know you can't take it with you and it is rare that you find heirs that share the same passion about the collection that the original collector had. Many times (OK most times) heirs have a habit of selling off the collections (be it planes, stamps, coins or guns) ASAP.

It seems to revolve around how fast the estate settles. Mr. Tallachet probably had a good will or estate plan. For all we know, it may well have had a provision to sell the airplanes (of course it might not have had one if he could leave enough cash to preserve the planes and set up a museum to take care of them). The best way to find out is to look for a copy of his will in his county court house. .....

Relatives without anywarbird interest will probably find themselves selling them and honestly they may not know the best way to sell them to maximize value. Also the more ways the planes need to be split up will make a real difference in what happens to ownership.

However, tasteless or not, its a fact of life and I can guarantee you that there are people cutting deals right now to get their hands on those planes. I've done it myself in different estates (obviously estates I had nothing to do with from a legal standpoint) and others have gotten there before me on other ones. I think as a group, we will be surprised in the future as to where those planes go.

Mark H

David Tallichet knew he was sick. I'm pretty confident that his family knows EXACTLY what is in the collection and knows where it is and what its potential worth is. I believe a plan was already in place and nothing will be done haphazardly.

I've no doubt you're right about that, Rick. And if you reread my post you'll see that I mentioned that we knew quite some time ago that there was already a lot of concern about what could happen. This is nothing new. I'll be very honest and say that I personally am VERY concerned. Our guys have been working on the Invader for many years and it would be a shame to see it yanked out from under us. The possibility of this happening already existed. The actuallity of it happening now becomes much more of a concern.
Yes, I am probably jumping the gun, but this was---as it always has been---a business, and once the top guy is gone anything can happen.

MARC has a list of all assets. When I was around there in the early 90s hanging out, I saw a well organized, printed out company list of where everything was. This stuff was and is tracked by the company. Hang The Expense will know about this too.

John

Does MARC have a website?

Back when we had the B-24 up here in Massachusetts, the list was 100+ airplanes and we knew of a whole bunch up in this area.
The Polish built Mig at OQU was a Tallichet aircraft. The T-28 was too, that was on display at OQU and then was put on a pallet and sent to LWM a long time ago.
Where is the B-25 that flew around this area for years? It went to upstate NY for a while after we had that one, then came back to Mark Scotts for a while until Dave sent it somewhere else.

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Roger Cain
www.sfahistory.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stearman/


We must limit politicians to two terms:
one in office and one in jail.

That is what I get for Petsitting all the time!
Do we know who has/Maintains it?

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