[Lockbar]

This is not the first time this has happened. Some guys got into the same bind with the Navy/Feds 10-15 years ago when they raised a couple of Wildcats and Dauntless dive bombers from Lake Michigan off Chicago that sunk during practice carried landings in WW2. The Feds will only allow you to own their stuff if they let you.

[Moose4]

And if I'm not mistaken, after the government sued and got those Wildcats back...they took the wreckage and scrapped it. It wouldn't surprise me to see them scrap and destroy that F3A-1 if they get their hands on it.

The goobermint needs to back off and let this guy try and find a way to restore that Corsair. We've got fewer and fewer of those old pieces of history left (we lost another Corsair, an F4U-4, in a crash here in Columbia less than a year and a half ago).

}:-)4