This may be old news, but I just saw it pop up on Facebook. Apparently, the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola has sent both the SB2C recovered from Otay Reservoir (that's been rotting away on the storage ramp for 14 years) as well as the former NMUSAF A-25 project to the USS Midway Museum for restoration. According to the article, the Otay Reservoir bird will be restored and put on display on the carrier. Unfortunately, it appears the A-25 project will merely serve as a parts source.
The Naval Aviation Museum seems to be starting to make efforts to find homes for some of the long-term residents of the storage ramp. The C-46 was transferred to the Air Mobility Command Museum in Dover, and the PBY-5A just arrived at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo this month to be restored for the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum. I'd love to see the sole surviving AJ Savage given some love, as well as their PB4Y-2. They did a fair bit of restoration work on the Privateer about 15 years ago, adding turrets and a stock canopy, but then work was halted and it's been sitting ignored on the ramp with the vertical and outer wings removed for the past 15 years or so. I think there were originally plans to put it in the new building, which was under construction at the time, but then plans changed.
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