Aircraft N60332 Data

First encountered this PT in about 1954 at Fall River, Massachusetts (airport now closed). Belonged to Jimmy Hayward who bought it, in a crate, from a surplus broker in Canada. It was originally sold to The RCAF but never flown by them. Jimmy painted it in an orange/dark brown/black color scheme and added some sheet metal under new fabric where knees were constantly going through the fabric. It was damaged during a plowed-field landing when being ferried into a "shade trees" shop for new fabric. No injuries but Jimmy died of natural causes a few month later and the PT was sold to a group of local pilots who kept if for several years. I enjoyed several hours of rides in it, some of them acrobatic, but (at about age 14) never got to fly it myself.