Yes Martin I know the feeling. When I was a boy the local Austin airport had an abandonded P-38 sitting by the road, complete except for flat tires and being dirty and run down. It too got scrapped.
In the 70's in Galveston there was a Lockheed Connie at the airport, intact but also scrapped along with a DeHavlland Bever. What a waste of history.

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