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A couple weeks ago I posted about an F-19 I found with intentions of using as a parts plane for Crispy. Since then I have found out that it is/was/will be N3677T,S/N F-085. The airplane was deregister and left the country(canada).As I was told,the story is that the gent who bought it pulled the long mount and electrics off of it so he could fly it off of a short frozen lake in the winter time and his driveway in the summer. The bird was never put on ski's and only flew 130 hours(+/-). After he went west the family stored the bird in thier garage from 1979ish until the mid to late 1990's where it was then discovered and trucked back to the US. The new owner reassembled the airplane,stuck some BC12D numbers on it and delivered it to a new owner in Tennessee where I found it,putting only about 10 hours on the airplane. The guy who bought it never flew it. He had intentions of putting it back to show condition as the F-19 that it was supposed to be but after 7 years of wings off storage in the back of a dusty hanger he decided to let me talk him out of it. When I first seen the airplane I didn't realize just how nice it was until I started looking inside the wings and inspection hole...it was as slick and clean as STP on a new crankshaft. I still thought it would have to be recovered because it was the original fabric anf paint from 1977 and it had sooo much dust and dirt on it that you couldn't tell what color it was..SERIOUSLY! Yesterday it warmed up enough to take a little soap and water to it(I now have a cold
) and this is what I found. Check out the pics and tell me what you think. Keep in mind this is the original fabric and paint,this is not after waxing,buffing ,or anything except a little soap & water. The only extra paint on it is where someone painted over the original N# when it left the country. You can still make out a very faint shape of the original numbers under the paint if you catch the light just right.
A couple weeks ago I posted about an F-19 I found with intentions of using as a parts plane for Crispy. Since then I have found out that it is/was/will be N3677T,S/N F-085. The airplane was deregister and left the country(canada).As I was told,the story is that the gent who bought it pulled the long mount and electrics off of it so he could fly it off of a short frozen lake in the winter time and his driveway in the summer. The bird was never put on ski's and only flew 130 hours(+/-). After he went west the family stored the bird in thier garage from 1979ish until the mid to late 1990's where it was then discovered and trucked back to the US. The new owner reassembled the airplane,stuck some BC12D numbers on it and delivered it to a new owner in Tennessee where I found it,putting only about 10 hours on the airplane. The guy who bought it never flew it. He had intentions of putting it back to show condition as the F-19 that it was supposed to be but after 7 years of wings off storage in the back of a dusty hanger he decided to let me talk him out of it. When I first seen the airplane I didn't realize just how nice it was until I started looking inside the wings and inspection hole...it was as slick and clean as STP on a new crankshaft. I still thought it would have to be recovered because it was the original fabric anf paint from 1977 and it had sooo much dust and dirt on it that you couldn't tell what color it was..SERIOUSLY! Yesterday it warmed up enough to take a little soap and water to it(I now have a cold
) and this is what I found. Check out the pics and tell me what you think. Keep in mind this is the original fabric and paint,this is not after waxing,buffing ,or anything except a little soap & water. The only extra paint on it is where someone painted over the original N# when it left the country. You can still make out a very faint shape of the original numbers under the paint if you catch the light just right.
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