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Brewster Buffalo News
I see in Classic Wings and at the Annals of the Brewster Buffalo,
http://www.warbirdforum.com/buff.htm , that the Museum of Naval Aviation has transferred the Brewster 239 BW-372 to the Finnish Air Force Museum at Tikkakoski for a 5 year period. The Finns will finish cleaning and preserving the aircraft and then complete the assembly of the dismantled relic and return it to the condition it was in when recovered from Russian Karelia about 1996. The transfer is in honor of the 90th anniversary of the Finnish Air Force. There is a link, http://www.pienoismallit.net/galleria/referenssi_3090/ , to a Finnish modeling site that has some really fantastic pictures of this the only surviving Brewster 239 and one of only two surviving Brewster aircraft. The aircraft is remarkably well preserved. I know the current trend in restoration is to preserve aircraft as found but I think it is a shame that the Brewster could not be fully restored to a condition more representative of its service life. I would however not repair the bullet and shell holes that downed the aircraft. John Dupre' |
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