Originally Posted by
nomorehelosforme
As an FYI: the attached story uses information from several years ago and should not be applied to this accident. The previous issue dealt with building an aircraft from salvage and the transfer of a data tag from a corroded airframe to a serviceable airframe which currently resides in that alfalfa field. While it adds to the journalistic wow factor for the story, it does not represent the condition of the aircraft prior to the accident, which had a current special AWC and was operated as experimental-R&D.