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Time capsule, factory pyralin, wood and seatbelts

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FlaL4

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Guys this is not a Cub but I wanted to share these photos with you. The aircraft is 43-1612 a 1943 L-3C last flown in the 1940's and still has it's original floorboards, seat belts and fragments of pyralin. It was sold surplus in 1945 and the civilian owner painted it yellow but some of the original factory OD green is still visible on many interior parts, the control sticks were black as were the seat frames. The original floorboards are so covered with dirt could not determine color. It has tatters of the original fabric still on the airframe.

The frame has never been cut and the greeenhouse tubing is all intact with remnants of the wood framing.

I shot these today in the loft of an old hangar on a grass strip.

Steve

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