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September 27, 2014 at 8:05 am in reply to: Stinson L-5 Sentinel #864619

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Well LBA has been tried without luck , file is destroyed.

I have found the frame number and James Gray is 99% sure that the aircraft is 42-99252.
That plane was manufactured in March 1944 and delivered to the 12th Air Force in Italy. It was condemned for salvage in April 1946 and sold to an unspecified entity via the foreign Liquidation Commission (FLC) that was a branch of the U.S. government which handled disposal of military assets after WWII. This certainly accounts for the airplane surviving in Europe after WWII without it being scrapped as many of them were.

And yesterday I also got some history over the phone from Flying Club Nürnberg.

So at present that is it for now.

September 24, 2014 at 2:00 pm in reply to: Any Italians who can help me with Stinson L-5 Sentinel #868540

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Hi David.

Maybe you are right , I will send James Gray an mail regarding this.

Jacob

September 22, 2014 at 12:13 pm in reply to: Stinson L-5 Sentinel #871872

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Mail has been send to LBA in german ….. Check

A number 76-30500 has been found on the aircraft …..Check

Lets us hope it will bring me a bit further……Check

Jacob

September 19, 2014 at 8:37 pm in reply to: Stinson L-5 Sentinel #873825

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Actually I did think about it and I all too well know the “datenschutz” law.

I will give them a call next week to check if they still have some info about D-ELKO in their files, sadly the logbooks also disappeared over time.

At the moment I am going through all the big IF’s and MAYBE’s in the progress, have to be damn sure it can get into the air also paper wise or should I say all paper wise, the correct papers are what matters today.

Jacob

September 19, 2014 at 3:53 pm in reply to: Stinson L-5 Sentinel #873987

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Hi Kenneth.

Tak for henvendelsen på den tyske side, loooong road ahead of me before it will be airborne , but it deserves it , with approx. 125 airworthy L-5’s left globally it needs to be saved.

I contacted Fliegerverein Nürnberg the other day and asked if they had any info from the time D-ELKO was in the flying club , they promised me to take a look.

Regards,
Jacob

September 19, 2014 at 3:48 pm in reply to: Stinson L-5 Sentinel #873991

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Hi Chumpy.

Thanx , that is excactly the one I am dealing with….

September 19, 2014 at 3:47 pm in reply to: Stinson L-5 Sentinel #873994

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Hi Tom.

I am already in contact with James Gray, but he is presently on a tour in Alaska with an C-170 , but will be back shortly and then he will investigate, I will go monday and dig deeper , had some tips from James where to look for numbers, so hopefully I am lucky.

Jacob

September 18, 2014 at 8:13 am in reply to: Stinson L-5 Sentinel #876094

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Hi Viscount.

Well I thought I had a breakthrough yesterday , when I received a USAAF number 44-17220 , but the joy only lasted a very short time because that number belongs to a L-5B model and not an L-5 as it is supposed to be.

September 15, 2014 at 9:51 am in reply to: Stinson L-5 Sentinel #879560

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Thanx , I know it was cancelled as D-ELKO 13 november 1971, maybe I should search for the USAAF number 76-2493 and see what I can find

September 15, 2014 at 7:27 am in reply to: Stinson L-5 Sentinel #879623

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Hi all.

Viscount , thanx for the answer , I will go and have a look at the airframe and logbooks one more time before I make a decision , see if I can find another number , nice to see that it actually is possible to dig up a little history.

Jacob
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