John Dupre wrote:
The Cradle of Aviation Musuem built one mock up for themselves and at least one for the Dutch.
Hi John, thanks, I got it the wrong way around

it was the New Yorkers who built two, one for the Dutch MLM Museum - but I can confirm I've only ever heard of two.
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Regarding survivors: The original F2A recovered in Russia and transferred to the Navy at Pensacola has been tranferred to Finland on a ten year loan. It is assembled and displayed as recovered.
The saga of who recovered and 'owned' that aircraft does fill a book, and it did, I understood, end up in Finnish hands, loaned to the NMUSNA - but you may be correct it was obtained by the US Navy. Can you confirm?
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I heard somewhere that the Dutch had bought some wreckage of East Indies Air Force examples that had crashed in Australia.
The ones that made it to Australia were assigned to the RAAF, then to the USAAF eventually. I've a vague memory of minor parts surviving, like the Republic P-43 Lancer 'bits' in Aus.
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I think there is a claim of a known wreck in a swamp in the eastern US somewhere.
And during the war, there were a couple of RAF ones on Crete, but these were pretty definitely lost on the German invasion.
Meanwhile another chance to post these images (buy your Buffalos now while stocks last!)


From this thread:
viewtopic.php?p=298236 - with some interesting points, not least Spanner's at the end. He's right, of course!
Regards,