Alex and John testing out the seat for the first time. Sitting in an early A model T-28, 1949? it has the high canopy and looks lighter than the other fuselage, lots of good parts though being stored on the desert, including an entire "firewall foreward" engine.
The next pictures, we are deciding which fuselage to restore and which one to use for parts. The one we are looking at is a later A model T-28, 1953? You can see the left front wing mount was ripped out when the fuselage was pulled from the wing, probably in a scrap yard in Mexico. That wing mount was on an important extrusion that runs the long length of the fuselage, called a longeron, lots of work. You can see the faded triangle of the Mexican Air Force.
We have decided to restore the later A, using parts from the early fuselage, I think the owner will be happy with our decision.
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