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US Navy drops F3A-1 Corsair claim



 
 
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Old May 24th 04, 10:08 AM
Dave Kearton
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Default US Navy drops F3A-1 Corsair claim


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



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