What happened to all the WW2 aircraft after the war?

[plan_D]

I assume he never wanted to see one again.

[FLYBOYJ]

YEP!

[Versatile]

After the war most were sold for about 2 cents on the dollar. i know a guy that went in the bug spraying business. they bought A-26's and B-17's etc out in Az. The bidders all carried sticks to dip the fuel tanks. When they opened the gate a bunch of guys took off running to be the first to dip as most of the had an agreement not to bid against each other because there were so many aircraft to bid on. Can you imagine rows of AC that were six miles long? The top bidder for scrapping them out was a little unknown firm from Jefferson City Mo. No they didn't scrap them im Mo. The best deal was to bid on those will a load of fuel. In otherwords you bought the fuel and got the AC free! I once tracked down 24 BT-13'S that were in Stuttgart Ar. They had been purchased by a crop duster and he pulled the engines to use on dusters. I used a 1964 magazine and this was in 1987. Went to the guys house and his wife came to the door and i could see a old guy in a wheel chair. The guy was the owner and they had sold them for scrap about two months before i arrived! DRAT!
The town of Rolla Mo. decided to by a B-24 to put in the city park. They got a great deal on it for a new almost zero time AC for $1800.00. A problem occured when they were going to move it from the airfield at Vichy Mo. a bridge that was to narrow nixed the plans. The AC stayed at Vichy for around two years and they even let the townspeople go for a ride a couple times as i was told. I have no idea whom did the flying! Musta been fun though.

[evangilder]

We had a P-38 in our museum for a while that was purchased from the war department in 1946 for $1,250!