Rat Page Up!

[DryMartini]

Just wanted to bring to your attention that
Scott has the Desert Rat page up and running.
Worth the price of admission, if I do say so myself.

[OldBillB17F]

What a great looking bird! You guy's have done a fantastic job on her.

Question: was the cockpit completely stripped of parts when recovered, or do you all have any items?

[DIK SHEPHERD]

Does the owner have the original Data Plate from the instrument panel?

If so, is it the small round type or the big oval type?

[hang the expense]

Nice pics guys, I cant believe people said it cant be rebuilt.Bull feathers!

[DryMartini]

In reference to the question about the data plate,
they were missing from the plane when Mike bought it.

[DIK SHEPHERD]

The reason I asked was I'm trying to figure out when Boeing went from the small (2 inch circle) data plate to the larger version. I know that the Y1Bs had the small ones and possibly the "B" models. But after that, who knows.

Anyway, if it was the small type I have one for you. I just had 25 of them made up.

If it was the larger size, there are plenty of reproductions out there.

[DryMartini]

I'll look at the blueprint, and see what the usage of
it was. Do you have a part number, by chance?

[DIK SHEPHERD]

I'm sure that they had one, like everything else, but I have no idea what it would have been.