"Dave Kearton" dkearton-with a little less wrote:

For those of you who don't get AVflash.



"NAVY DROPS CORSAIR CLAIM, CRALLEY GOOD TO GO Congressional pressure has
forced the U.S. Navy to say "uncle" in a case of David and Goliath. In
1991, vintage plane buff Lex Cralley of Princeton, Minn., went down to
Craven County, N.C., and dug up the rusting pieces of a World War II-era
Brewster F3A-1 Corsair that had laid abandoned there for 60 years.
Cralley, an airline ground services mechanic, hoped to some day rebuild
the plane, and had started putting the pieces back together when the
Justice Department sued him for stealing the plane from the federal
government, and demanded that he give it back to the Navy."


http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#187346

Boy, won't that be a rarity. Brewster built 738 F3As, making them the
smallest producer of Corsairs.
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Marc Reeve
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