Boise Bee

[corporallouis]

She's a beauty for sure. I expect we'll see some of her posted on the Mustang photo sites on the net. Do you know if that was her original coloring?

[QuietOne]

She's a beauty for sure. I expect we'll see some of her posted on the Mustang photo sites on the net. Do you know if that was her original coloring?

I don't think so. My impression is that the paint scheme was to honor a local pilot, Lt. Col Duane Beeson. It's the paint scheme his plane had. I don't know what her original scheme was. I'll ask Mike when he gets home. I do know this restoration has taken a very long time.

[QuietOne]

This is Mike. I haven't seen any pictures of the plane from its time sitting the storage yard. The plane came from a large storage yard belonging to a guy that kept a bunch of these old planes, even when they were considered to be worthless junk. I can check with the owner, but all the old pictures I've seen so far the plane was either stripped or in zinc cromate green. At the time the aircraft was manufactured, it could have been the olive drab of the current scheme, or bare aluminum, as they transitioned to unpainted during the production run of this aircraft. It is unlikely this plane ever left the US, as it was obsolete when the war ended, and if it was overseas would have been scrapped there.