Repatriation
Click to big up. Snap shot out of the CAF “blue Book” from 1975, via CAF
47 years ago today: On September 5, 1969 the S.S. Rosaldina arrived at the port of Brownsville, Texas from Latin America with six Republic P-47 Thunderbolt “jugs” brought back from the Peruvian Air Force and turned over to the then-Confederate Air Force (now the more PC Commemorative Air Force), a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and showing historical aircraft at airshows primarily throughout the U.S. and Canada.
The group currently owns 162 classic aircraft, including the airworthy #44-89136 Lil Meatie’s Meat Chopper and the static #44-88548 (a P-47N-5RE).