Grumman Duck N63850 - One of a kind

One of only four flyable aircraft that survived America’s
“Day of Infamy” is now based in East Texas alongside one of its fellow
survivors. In 2017 the Mid America Flight Museum in Mount Pleasant, Texas
acquired a rare Grumman J2F-4 Duck, Bureau Number 1649. 1649 is a very historic
Grumman built Duck as it was on Pearl Harbor the day of the December 7th
attack. It survived and went to serve in the South Pacific. After the war it
made it to the U.S. civilian registry as N63850. Sadly, it crashed in the 1950s.
An ambitious enthusiast recovered the airframe of 1649 from its crash site on the bottom of a lake in the Bahamas. The restoration project was sold to aircraft collector Chuck Greenhill from Illinois. After a multi-year rebuilt with Wichita Air Services in Kansas 1649 flew again in 2005. It went on to earn the EAA Grand Champion Warbird award at Oshkosh in 2007. Mid America purchased the Duck from Mr. Greenhill.
Vintage airplane collector, Scott Glover, has built up the Mid America …
An ambitious enthusiast recovered the airframe of 1649 from its crash site on the bottom of a lake in the Bahamas. The restoration project was sold to aircraft collector Chuck Greenhill from Illinois. After a multi-year rebuilt with Wichita Air Services in Kansas 1649 flew again in 2005. It went on to earn the EAA Grand Champion Warbird award at Oshkosh in 2007. Mid America purchased the Duck from Mr. Greenhill.
Vintage airplane collector, Scott Glover, has built up the Mid America …