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Originally Posted by bugstrider
In the second half of the 90’s while poking around an old metal hangar behind the static displays at the March Air Museum.....and n an area where I was most definitely not suppose to be. Curiosity got the best of me and I was peeking through small holes or any crack that would allow me to see in. Inside I saw the nose cone of a P-38 and it had Marge’s picture on it. Add the 50 years of aging to it, you can imagine the condition. I honestly was in “shock” when I saw it. The historical significance of what I was looking at still gives me chills to this day.
I never found out what happened to it but I was comforted to know the Chino Planes of Fame restoration facility was a few miles away. I was just telling a coworker about that day.
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My father was an old Army Air Corp pilot flying, primarily, A-26's in Korea. Unfortunately, in about 2007, I had to place him in an Alzheimer's care facility and the one I chose ended up being across the freeway from the March AFB Museum.
I used to take him to the museum every couple of weeks to see the cadre of aircraft he used to fly while in the AAC. There was a hanger there that had the P-38 you mentioned, and in 2007-2008, it was going through a major restoration. Since my father died in 2008, I didn't have a chance to see it through the full resto, but since it was my father's "wanna fly" aircraft (and one of my favorites, too), I hoped the restoration was completed.
A B-25 sits at the entrance to the museum and after looking at my dad's AAC log book, I saw that he flew that exact airplane during his first familiarization flight once he got to Korea. I thought that was pretty cool!