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Article: EVANSVILLE-BUILT P-47 AWAITING INVITATION TO FLY HOME
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- April 5, 2009
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At various times in recent years, interest in obtaining and
restoring an original P-47 airframe has been bandied about by
businessmen, pilots and aviation enthusiasts around the area.
Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the idea has never really
sparked the community's imagination or appealed to the right number
of well-healed individuals in this community to actually make
something fabulous happen.
Now, however, an opportunity presents itself which is rather
tantalizing to consider for those who care about preserving some
tangible, physical connection with the industrial past of this
community.
A recent space ad in the aviation periodical "Trade a Plane" says
it all ... a superbly restored ...