Following a five-year restoration with Tri-State Aviation at Wahpeton, North Dakota, the wing centre-section of Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver BuNo 83393 was recently trucked to the Fagen Fighters WWII Museum at Granite Falls, Minnesota, and mated to the dive-bomber's fuselage there during late October. The former US Navy machine was recovered during 1994 from dense foliage at Dahlgren, Virginia, where it had crashed while landing in July 1945. Although some parts went to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for the restoration of its SB2C-5, BuNo 83479, the 85 per cent-complete collection of components arrived at Granite Falls in 2006. When it flies it will become just the second airworthy example of the type alongside SB2C-5 BuNo 83589, currently operated by the Dallas-based West Texas Wing of the Commemorative Air Force.
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