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Blue Tail Flies and NL , USS Coral Sea CV-43?
Empty weight is 5800#. Gross Take off is 8000#. All depending on the model.Wiki says the weight of P-40's are around 8000 lbs, (2700 kg). That is a lot fewer logs then I would have guessed it would take to float that.
AK803 was fully de-commissioned at this point, stripped of its camouflage paint with the exposed body polished. The serial number was also changed during one of its prior repairs to 1034. The P-40 was sold at the aforementioned surplus sale to George Maude, a retired member of the RCAF. He paid a mere $50 for the Kittyhawk, and brought it out to his family compound on Saltspring Island, BC with the help of the log barge seen here.