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DAUNTLESS/Bu. 10715



Bureau #: 10715
Construction #: ?
Civil Registration:
  None
  Model:
  SBD-4
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 1991

History:
Delivered to U.S. Navy as 10715, 19??.
- Ditched in Lake Michigan after wave off from USS Sable, Sept. 3, 1944.
-- Pilot ok.
Recovered from Lake Michigan by Ed Marshall, circa 1981.
Yankee Air Corps, Chino, CA, 1986.
- Restoration started using wings recovered from Guadalcanal by YAC.
Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, Chino, CA, 1987-1991.
Museum Of Flying, Santa Monica, CA, 1991.
- Arrived Santa Monica dismantled, July 1991.
- Restoration project.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Photo Source(s):
None


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