And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, September 10, 2022
I got this in my email today: I saw this plane at a small airport near Clear Lake CA. I thought you might find this of the interest for your blog. cheers, Tim McT
I like it, and it is salvageable -- with enough money!
let's see if this flies-
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now that was not nice.
ReplyDeleteThat is an HU-16, I was a Flight Mechanic on it in in the Coast Guard in the late 70's.
ReplyDeleteJimmy Buffet owns one. Grumman Albatross to us civilians.
ReplyDeleteAnything is salvageable with enough money.
ReplyDeleteIt sits at Lampson Field, Lakeport CA
ReplyDeleteI believe the last HU-16 left Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento in late '79 or early '80...right before I arrived there. So I never got a ride...
ReplyDeleteIt was '79, that plane was at the gate at Elizabeth City, NC the last time I saw it.
DeleteI left Sacramento in March of 80.
Recent sat image shows it still on the field at Lampson.
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