The latest restoration to emerge from the workshops at Kermit Weeks’ Fantasy of Flight Museum at Polk City, Florida, is Stinson O-49 Vigilant 40-3102/N63230. The two-seat light observation machine was seriously damaged while in the Weeks Air Museum at Tamiami, Florida, during Hurricane Andrew in August 1992. Of the 324 built, only four other examples of this 295 h.p. Lycoming R-680 radial- powered design survive, none of which are in flying condition.
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Fantasy of Flight Museum’s rare Stinson emerges