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One thing my experience in the airplane restoration business has taught me is that virtually anything is restorable, especially if all of the parts remain. The museum I work for was created in the late 1970s if only the fisherman’s family had held on to the old airplane just a little longer, maybe they would have heard of the founding of an aviation museum on Long Island and promptly called us to come fetch the wreck. The fisherman told me that the rest of this airplane had been stored in the rafters of the boat shed well into the 1970s, at which time it was thrown out to make space for their fishing gear. It was clearly from an early airplane-very early. Soon the intact-but rusty-radiator was found. He recalled an old radiator that he thought was from the flying boat, so we began rummaging around the shed. I had no idea what the wing was from: It looked like a 1930s biplane to me-not very exciting, and I gently prodded the donor to see if there might be any other odd bits of old airplanes lying about. He told me that Grampa (also a fisherman) had owned a couple of airplanes in the 1920s and ’30s, one of them a seaplane he flew right from the dock next to the boat shed. I arrived at the boat shed, which was dark, dirty, and crammed with the detritus of many years of commercial fishing, and the fisherman showed me a fairly deteriorated wood wing that appeared to have been part of an unknown type of aircraft. We’ve obtained several rare items over the years through such vague phone calls, so I figured it was worth the drive out east. Long Island has a rich aeronautical heritage, and old airplane parts turn up with some regularity.
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It seems he was cleaning out his boat shed when he found part of an old airplane, and he wanted to know if we wanted it. One day in 2012, I got a phone call from a fisherman in Mattituck, on the eastern end of Long Island. Having worked at the Cradle of Aviation Museum for decades, I have learned that treasures sometimes turn up unexpectedly.