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| Keywords: SB2A Naval Aviation Museum.jpg en The Brewster SB2A Buccaneer of the U S National Museum of Naval Aviation at Pensacola Florida USA The museum's SB2A was originally produced as an A-34 s/n 462-860 of the U S Army Air Forces and operated from William Northern Field near Tullahoma Tennessee USA Somehow the aircraft was at some point in its service pushed off the runway at that airfield into a nearby swamp There collector Dave Talluchet found it and another A-34 during the mid-1970s The aircraft were taken to the Naval Air Development Center NADC Warminster Pennsylvania which in part occupied the former buildings of the Brewster Aeronautical Corporation where it had been built In an agreement with the collector about sixty former Brewster employees some of whom continued to work at NADC Warminster undertook restoration of one of the Buccaneers starting in 1978 However the restoration was going very slow In 2004 the aircraft was acquired by the NMNA and the plane was completed in 2007 and it was placed on indoor static display U S National Museum of Naval Aviation http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/doncoms/Display php irn 9061 QueryPage 2FQuery php USN 2007-05-09 PD-USGov-Military-Navy Brewster SB2A Aircraft at National Museum of Naval Aviation | ||||
