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Originally Posted by asianF22
tenant’s 1943 Grumman G-44 Widgeon back from maintenance…
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Nice looking airplane. The original had two-blade props as seen in this preserved Coast Guard example; I suspect your tenant's has upgraded engines as well as those pretty three-blade propellers.
Some time in 1948, during his time as a test pilot, my Dad flew from Maryland up to New York to the Grumman plant on Long Island. While there, one of the Grumman managers asked him if there was anything he'd like to fly before he returned to Maryland. He replied that he would love to fly a seaplane as he had never done so. Presto! Grumman produced a Mallard, which was a larger amphibian with twin radials and he got to check out in it and make some water landings. That would never happen today: simulator time, paperwork, etc.