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Ed, Einar told us about your airplane and we would thoroughly enjoy seeing it!!
r/Dan
(410) 231-1252
ALCON,
Thank you for the warm welcome. After talking with a few of you and Jim, I need to amend my post from above. As with any restoration of aircraft you are always learning from the minute you get into the restoration until you decide to get rid of the project. In our case we do not plan on getting rid of her for a long time to come.
I received the FAA documents on the aircraft and looked them over very carefully and found indeed our fuselage has been recovered in 1973 by the previous long time owner “Skeeter” Carlson of Spokane Washington. I also have a alteration form dated July of 1946 stating the wings were recovered a few months after the airplane was sold from the War Assets Corporation to an Air Service in Spokane WA, who performed the recover. So our cotton on our wings is not factory Vultee/Stinson but rather 1946 vintage, and our fuselage is ceconite.
The rest of the interior appears original with touch ups here and there, as one would expect, but the tubular has not been stripped, sandblasted and repainted since it left Stinson. It appears all of the brackets and military furnishings attachments are also intact and have not been cut out of the tubular. There are no civilian avionics modifications to the aircraft. It appears the previous owner utilized a handheld, or no radio at all. There is no transponder wiring present either.
The civilian history as far as I have discovered form the paperwork I have:
Serial # 76-530
USAAF # 42-98289
N # NC49324 (March 1946) / N49324 (March 1970)
Sold to Wallace Air Service by War Assets Corporation March 1946.
Sold to Pendleton Airways Inc. by Wallace Air Service August 1947.
Sold to Mr. Edwin “Skeeter” Carlson by Pendleton Airways Inc. January 1970.
Sold to Mr. Einar Ketilsson by Edwin “Skeeter” Carlson March 2013.
Sold to Valour For Veterans LLC by Einar Ketilsson November 2022.
That is the civilian history I have for the aircraft as of today. Our intention is to restore this airplane as historically accurate as possible. We have not begun to dig into her wartime past but I am sure I can find some help here in the forums for help on that.
We are finishing up a restoration of a 1942 Mitsubishi A6M3-32, so the L-5 Sentinel will have to share our time for awhile as we begin flight tests on the Zero.
Thank you all for the warm welcome and I look forward to learning as much as I can from you all.
r/Dan