From the Oct. 15, 2010, Detroit News "Tuskegee Museum gets rare World War II plane" by Micki Steele.
The Tuskegee Airmen National Museum got the opportunity to buy a plane actually flown by them and spent a year raising the $200,000 to get it. It was a World War II T-6 training plane, referred to often as "The Pilot-Maker." Only one other plane exists that was actually flown by them.
Rayvon Burleson, a veteran of World War II, Korean and Vietnam wars bought and sold vintage planes as a hobby. He researched the T-6's serial number and knew that it had been a Tuskegee plane. Of all his planes, it was his favorite and had flown it just a few days before his death.
After 9/11, with the new restrictions, the family stopped flying it and had donated it for awhile to the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkost, Wisconson, for display.
The plane had been built at the North American Aviation's Dallas factory and delivered in 1943 to the Tuskegee Army Air Force in Alabama and used until 1945.
This factory also made the P-51 fighters the Tuskegee Airmen flew escorting bombers.
Great to Have It Back. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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