Saturday, August 6, 2011

Tuskegee Airmen Plane to the Smithsonian

A PT-13 Stearman open cockpit biplane used by the airmen as a trainer has been located, bought, refurbished and turned over to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.

It was decommissioned in 1946 and for decades used for crop-dusting before being damaged in a crash.

It was purchased at auction and restored over a three-year period by former B-52 bomber pilot Matthew Quy.

It is one a just a few surviving planes with ties to Moton Field and the Tuskegee Institute where 1,000 black pilots got their wings during World War II.

A Great Part of History. --Cooter

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