The fuselage of 42-98643, ex USAAF. It is not known how it got to Poland. There are a number of theories. It is very probable that it was a German war prize. Another view is that it was impressed in 1945 after it was forced to land in Poland. The German war prize seems more credible as the L-5 was included in the early listings of aircraft found at Czarnów before they were transferred to the Okręgowa Składadnica Lotnicza (District Aircraft Depot) of the DLC at Gądki near Poznań. It was shipped to Krakow from Wrocław in late 1963 with the first shipment of exhibits/wrecks (fuselages only). At this time it was further damaged when it was cut in half to facilitate loading onto a railway car.