Warbird Information Exchange

Are there any D3A1 Model 11 Wreck ? (PS:Not D3A2 Model 22) I have found one in the Pacific Wrecks http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/d3a2/maluu.html , but it don,t have photos of it , Can some one give me some information of it ?

Didn't someone drag one out about 45 years ago? Seem to remember an article and pictures about it and either an SBD or F6F both being found and recovered.

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Don't make me go get my flying monkeys-

Deimert recovered one from Ballale in '68. That's the one that is now at the POF.

I believe the Diemert/POF Val is a D3A2. At least photos of it after "restoration" show the longer canopy of the later model. Of course it also had a B-25 QEC and a Harvard tail, so who knows?

SN

Ya the Planes of Flame one is a D3A2

Yea, you're right guys, I stand corrected.

This Val was originally at the (now called) Canadian Air and Space Museum in Rockcliff, near Ottawa, Ontario, before being traded to PoF for a Sikorsky R-4B helicopter. The reason that the Canadians gave up this Val, besides their desire for an R-4, was that the Val was far from being original. The plane is quite a marriage or American-made engine, cowling and various other parts. Apparently many of Bob Diemert's 1960s era restorations were very far from modern - or maybe even contemprary - standards.

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Kevin McCartney

Understatement of the year! All 3 of Diemert's Japanese "airworthy" (and I use the term loosely) restorations were grounded after being sold to other parties.