This morning at Creve Coeur Airport near St. Louis, MO, in the colours of one that Lindbergh flew on the air mail route from St. Louis to Chicago.
By: Stieglitz - 30th September 2006 at 19:23
Great news! The DH4 is a lovely design and I’m very happy to see this nice repro airborne.
Thanks for posting.
Stieglitz
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 30th September 2006 at 10:56
Thanks for that
By: Baldeagle - 30th September 2006 at 01:57
It was built from scratch by a man in Georgia over about a 25 year period I think. It was running and taxiing when he died, and his son sold it to the guys in St. Louis. They ended up doing a lot of work on it, including recovering, and re-doing much of the previous work. There were a number of different versions of the DH-4, this one has a steel tube fuselage frame, which I believe makes it a Boeing variant.
Incidentally an original mail plane DH-4 recently sold from the Crawford Museum in Cleveland to Peter Jackson, http://www.wrhs.org/crawford/template.asp?id=335
By: Melvyn Hiscock - 29th September 2006 at 21:53
So, is it a looky likey, a real replica or just another aeroplane dressed up?
Made to original drawings? What’s the engine?
By: Andy in Beds - 29th September 2006 at 21:51
N-I-C-E-!!!
By: Consul - 29th September 2006 at 21:51
Will it be at Woburn? 😉
By: The Blue Max - 29th September 2006 at 21:19
Loverly, thanks for posting those B E 🙂
By: taylorman - 29th September 2006 at 19:08
That’s very nice!
It’s always nice to see a replica of a historic aircraft back in the air 🙂 Well done!
By: Baldeagle - 29th September 2006 at 17:19
No, Glenn Peck made the test flight, I was just on the e-mail list…
By: low'n'slow - 29th September 2006 at 17:18
Simply booo-ti-ful. Nice one. Is that you grinning inanely from the pilot’s seat?
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