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.
NC17665 7W-31, NC17665 (NC46426) – Built 5/17/1940. First sold to B.K. Douglas of NY. AAF serial number 42-38287 worn during war time service. Owned and flown by Gigi Brisson for many years. Purchased by Walt Bowe Summer 2021. New owner June 2025. Registered to John Bormes of Aberdeen, South Dakota.
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The executive aircraft to have in the late '30s, it was faster than any fighter the US military had in 1936.
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