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Other than the P-47's "Lil Demon" and "Dottie Mae", are there any other P-47 restorations taking place out there?

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Pat, the CAF P-47N is still a work in progress....... Perhaps Doug Jeanes could provide a small update..... (hint, hint)..... Alan Brooks

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Don't think any work has started on Dottie Mae yet. Mike B. is finishing up
on Jack C.'s (not me -sorry :? ) 2nd P-51D.

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Rob Greinert has three combat veteran razorback P-47's under restoration in New Zealand.

West Pac have at least two P-47's under active restoration, perhaps more, as well.

There's also a a P-47 under restoration to static at Peterson Aerospace Museum in Colorado as well.

There is/was a P-47B under restoration/reconstruction in Bensenville, Illinois as well, though I haven't heard much about it in a long while.

Can't think of any others in addition to those already mentioned though, but that's quite a few!

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Whist we would love to have 3 P-47 restorations going on here.Rob Greinert is located in Australia, not New Zealand. Cheers mate!

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The P-47 is my favorite fighter, and am so glad to hear that some more of them are going to be restored.

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"There's also a a P-47 under restoration to static at Peterson Aerospace Museum in Colorado as well".

I think this one has been done for a couple years but I don't have a link
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steve dickey wrote:
"There's also a a P-47 under restoration to static at Peterson Aerospace Museum in Colorado as well".

I think this one has been done for a couple years but I don't have a link


The one at Peterson is indeed finished. Or as close to finished as can be. And it does look good!

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Pima also has one, but I would not consider it to be an "active" restoration as it has been in storage for some time.

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Whist we would love to have 3 P-47 restorations going on here.Rob Greinert is located in Australia, not New Zealand. Cheers mate!

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Ayyye! I meant to say Australia. Not sure what got into me! :oops: Thanks for noting that!

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Clifford Bossie wrote:
steve dickey wrote:
"There's also a a P-47 under restoration to static at Peterson Aerospace Museum in Colorado as well".

I think this one has been done for a couple years but I don't have a link


The one at Peterson is indeed finished. Or as close to finished as can be. And it does look good!

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Pima also has one, but I would not consider it to be an "active" restoration as it has been in storage for some time.

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Nice to see the one at Peterson is finished... those Puerto Rican Air National Guard markings always make me chuckle though... PRANG... not exactly the word I'd want written on my aircraft!

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Yeah I think everyone gets a chuckle out of "PR-ANG". I believe they were the last Air Guard unit to operate the Jug. The one at Peterson is a good time capsule. It was placed on a pole about 1954 and was unrestored at the time, so it was pretty original.

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The one in Colorado looks like an "N".

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The one in Colorado looks like an "N".


It is a P-47N. I had watched the restoraion on the Peterson website for some time and a few years ago I got to see it in person and sit in the cockpit.

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I thought that I'd heard that Neal Melton (a warbird God in my estimation for what he's done along with John Schoffner) has a second P-47 under restoration. Is that true, and if so, was it covered in the mentioned projects?

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There are couple that aren't active restorations that should be...Kermit has one in a shipping container and Walter Soplata has an "N" model fuselage. There is also a partial fuselage in the Aviation Museum in Prague. Again these are "should be" projects.

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