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Found intact after 60 years !Now home in NY state being restored !

What a wonderful story!!

I grew up in Buffalo and learned how to fly at Niagara Falls International Airport back in 1976. My German immigrant Grandmother worked at the very plant I flew, and made my first solo, over dozens of times. One of the two large Bell plants in the Niagara Frontier region, the other one was at the Buffalo International Airport.

Great story...I never ceased to be amazed at how many wrecks are recover in the most unusual places.

The size and scope of the Lend Lease effort in World War II is staggering. Over 15,000 Airplanes when to Russia alone. When I was a kid you could get a lot of surplus stuff for dam near nothing. Now its a rare find. As for the P-39 it was an interesting airplane, why the Army Air Force at the time didn't like it, is an interesting story. The Russians loved that airplane, There is one on display in Watson Lake Yukon, where the Russian pilots took them for the long flight to the Front. Now if they restore that Airplane to flying condition.