Hide something?
Most likely the brown stains on the upholstery.
p.s. How much was used in the rebuild?
I'ts fairly simple - you just jack up the maker's plate and wheel a new airframe underneath.
Ewald has a virtual Stearman production-line going over at 3G.
I can just imagine Ewald's phone-call from the Hotel-Suite in Phoenix to the factory in Hungary...
(To paraphrase a line from a song in the film "Easyrider") ... ".. Roll out another one - just like the other one."
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