Operated by the Yuma Station Flight. Ex USAAF 43-49132 with c/n 26393 / 14948. Later modified to a R4D-8 with new c/n 43398. Later redesignated to a C-117D. No info for this aircraft after 1978.

In a hangar at the Rwy 02 end of LFOI. The aircraft was first noted here at Abbeville just before my visit, in May. Belonging to a final batch of over 1000 Kaydets, 42-17838 was not completed until early 1945, making it one of the youngest surviving Stearmans. The FAA 'airworthiness date' for N3929B is in 1956.

Photographer: Toshiyuki Toda.

Photographer: Toshiyuki Toda.

Walrus K8341 / 780 was carried by the cruiser HMS Exeter in the Pacific, together with K8343 / 769. Both aircraft visited the airshow at Vancouver in 1937 and this photo was most probably taken there. The badge on the tailfin, a lion on waves, is Exeter's. K8341 may have become a victim of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee when her gunfire struck Exeter off the Rio de la Plata on 13 December 1939. Photo from: San Diego Air & Space Museum