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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:13:34 -0500
From: Charlie England <ceengland@bellsouth.net>
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Russell Duffy wrote:

> Yup, that seems to be the case. Sometime in the '50s a P-38 Lightning 
> that was owned by a local aerial mapping company crashed into the 
> river cutbanks.  
>  
> That's amazing!  I was just joking of course :-)  
>  
> I bet Michael Callahan will have some comments on this, considering 
> his line of work.   I'm not sure how the laws are in Canada, but in 
> the US, the government recently tried to take a recovered plane 
> from someone, though they eventually gave up.  It might even turn out 
> that there's real financial value in your find.  It seems like folks 
> are "restoring" planes with little more than an original data plate.  
>  
> Congrats on the neat find!
>  
> Rusty (now go fly your plane)
>    

The stories I've read about salvaging military a/c indicate that it is 
only the US Navy that tries to claim perpetual ownership. There doesn't 
seem to be a problem with the other services.

Charlie