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SN 43-24362 recovered from Fl Everglades in 1986. Nearly complete airship wreckage.
-Curtiss P-40 Warhawk SN 43-24362 recovered in the Florida Everglades. This nearly complete airship is one of the few surviving, unrestored P-40 Warhawks left in the world. Currently being restored in Douglas Ga.
This fighter was piloted by Earl Goodyear and involved in a mid-air collision in 1945 with another P-40 piloted by Roy Rom during a training exercise. This event resulted in a forced landing in the Florida Everglades. Both planes remained undisturbed for the next 40 years.
The laborious recovery was performed in 1986, and took nearly two years to excavate and remove from a very remote part of the Everglades. The aircraft had to be disassembled and moved out by small boat, component by component.