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Post subject: Re: Incredible warbird barn find in NZ  Posted: 27 Jul 2020, 12:02 |
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Username Protected wrote: Love it! Who knows how many more might be out there like this... Doubtful there are any. There was a time Warbirds were plentiful in NZ. There was a yard full of FG-1D Corsairs and P-40s that didn't get scrapped until about 1970. This was a farmers field in in NZ in 1963. The one in the foreground became the Witch, #7 Strega Air Racer. Attachment: Screen Shot 2020-07-27 at 11.56.12 AM.png
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Post subject: Re: Incredible warbird barn find in NZ Posted: 27 Jul 2020, 15:35 |
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A group of us who were studying for our CPL theory at a nearby school knocked on his door one day in 1987. He graciously let us look through the entire shed. Sitting in the cockpit of the mossie as an 18 year old was very special. Very happy to see the collection going to an organisation that will look after it very well.
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Post subject: Re: Incredible warbird barn find in NZ Posted: 28 Jul 2020, 05:24 |
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Username Protected wrote: Love it! Who knows how many more might be out there like this... Doubtful there are any. There was a time Warbirds were plentiful in NZ. There was a yard full of FG-1D Corsairs and P-40s that didn't get scrapped until about 1970. This was a farmers field in in NZ in 1963. The one in the foreground became the Witch, #7 Strega Air Racer. Attachment: Screen Shot 2020-07-27 at 11.56.12 AM.png
Rich according to the notes at the bottom of those 2 photos they were at Benalla Victoria. Benalla is a country town about 100 miles North of Melbourne. Australia, not New Zealand
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Post subject: Re: Incredible warbird barn find in NZ Posted: 28 Jul 2020, 08:40 |
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Username Protected wrote: Doubtful there are any. There was a time Warbirds were plentiful in NZ. There was a yard full of FG-1D Corsairs and P-40s that didn't get scrapped until about 1970. This was a farmers field in in NZ in 1963. The one in the foreground became the Witch, #7 Strega Air Racer. Attachment: Screen Shot 2020-07-27 at 11.56.12 AM.png Rich according to the notes at the bottom of those 2 photos they were at Benalla Victoria. Benalla is a country town about 100 miles North of Melbourne. Australia, not New Zealand
My comment was a reflection of how plentiful Warbirds were, even in relatively recent times. This was true around the world.
The 1st Aussie built P-51, assembled in Aus from parts made in the US and shipped over during WWII, survives as it was on a Nuclear test ground and used as a target.
The Swiss bought a good number of P-51s post WWII from A/C left in Europe. They were retired late 50s and were all scrapped in the early 60s.
The Swedish bought many as well. They sold most to countries such as Dominican Republic and Several South American countries. Many of those have survived and still fly.
My point is that this is pretty much known. So the chance of unknown discoveries is very remote.
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Post subject: Re: Incredible warbird barn find in NZ Posted: 28 Jul 2020, 10:22 |
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Username Protected wrote: My comment was a reflection of how plentiful Warbirds were, even in relatively recent times. This was true around the world.  Time is a funny thing!1970 was 50 years ago, but just 25 years after the end of WWII. (That’s like 1995 compared to today.) 
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Post subject: Re: Incredible warbird barn find in NZ Posted: 28 Jul 2020, 12:53 |
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Username Protected wrote: My comment was a reflection of how plentiful Warbirds were, even in relatively recent times. This was true around the world. Time is a funny thing!1970 was 50 years ago, but just 25 years after the end of WWII. (That’s like 1995 compared to today.)
I maintain a P-51 bought in 1979 for $150K with a spare motor.
My involvement with warbirds started in about 1976 at Planes of Fame Air Museum, mostly a dirt lot then, that was started by the late Ed Maloney. He was too young to serve in WWII but saw how the relic A/C of that era were being destroyed and abandoned. This moved him to start collecting A/C starting in the late 40s.
USAF had a large sale of F-51s as late as 1958 for around $1500 and a handful more in 1961 IIRC. Ed bought one of those and it is still is operated by POF. (1st P-51 I worked on and got a ride in as a teen)
US Gov was still scrapping aircraft on South Pacific Islands into the mid- later 1960s. NZ scrapped many Corsairs and P-40s in the early parts of the 70s.
Early to mid 70s is when Warbird prices started to escalate upwards. Led by P-51s t 1st. By the late 80s the rarer fighters, such as P-47, beat out the P-51 in value.
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Post subject: Re: Incredible warbird barn find in NZ Posted: 28 Jul 2020, 15:16 |
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When I started at Rockwell Collins in the late 80's, I had a drawer in my desk that wouldn't quite shut. One night I got tired of it, and crawled under the desk to find out what was going on. Found a partial copy of Trade-A-Plane from 1967 shoved back there. Had the North American category in it. Had a P51 for sale, 600 hours on the engine, looked like decent radios, asking price was $14,500 if I remember correctly.
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Post subject: Re: Incredible warbird barn find in NZ Posted: 28 Jul 2020, 15:18 |
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Rich have you and your boss seen this old documentary about recovering the Mustangs from the Emu Plains atomic test site? https://youtu.be/q8_xQcfls3A[youtube] https://youtu.be/q8_xQcfls3A[/youtube] Part 2 and 3 will link automatically. Edit: what am I doing wrong?
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Post subject: Re: Incredible warbird barn find in NZ Posted: 28 Jul 2020, 16:04 |
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Username Protected wrote: Rich have you and your boss seen this old documentary about recovering the Mustangs from the Emu Plains atomic test site? https://youtu.be/q8_xQcfls3A[youtube] https://youtu.be/q8_xQcfls3A[/youtube] Part 2 and 3 will link automatically. Edit: what am I doing wrong? [youtube]https://youtu.be/q8_xQcfls3A[/youtube]
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