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Subject: [Leica] IMG: A Quote and Some Color
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 09:15:51 -0500
References: <551C5F79.7060309@lighttube.net> <CAFfkXxuhCs5L8jyyCjv35o5LLvJO=0_JfPjhhPcW+rXO9HbOSw@mail.gmail.com> <551D43B6.8070602@lighttube.net>

Makes more sense.   I know that numbers can be duplicated, but to be
totally un registered . . .!!!

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
wrote:

> Hi Sonny,
>
> Thanks for looking, and the kind words.  I found the same thing,
> initially.  Then I realized that the B is really an R.  With that, I found
> it to be a Grumman American AA-1B Yankee, originally designed by Jim Bede.
> This one is based north of Atlanta, at Woodstock, GA.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 4/2/2015 7:44 AM, Sonny Carter wrote:
>
>> I was looking up that N number, (n1648B) and saw that the number was for a
>> Luscombe had been de-registered in 1978 because it was destroyed.
>>
>> That isn't a Luscombe either, so I wonder what the story is?  I get a
>> blank
>> when I try to find info on the plane pictured.
>>
>> Pretty though.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  I stopped by the airport and ran into some old friends, but chatted, and
>>> did not get a photo of them.  However, I did grab a couple of shots to
>>> record the airport scene.
>>>
>>> I had not noted this bit of airport wisdom until today:
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/P4014437-1.jpg.html
>>>
>>> And I found a brightly painted visitor on the ramp while its owner and
>>> his
>>> dog ate lunch.
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/P4014438-1.jpg.html
>>>
>>> Olympus E-1 and ZD 35mm Macro
>>>
>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>
>>>
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana
1714
Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase

USA


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