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government agencies do not relinquish their claims lightly. They don't consider their hardware to be "abandoned", merely "very hard to get to".

My ex-coworkers at the Museum of Flight (in Seattle, mentioned in this article) know the exact location of a WWII-era fighter aircraft that crashed in Lake Washington. They recovered and restored one aircraft from the crash site at least a decade ago, but the Navy will not let them touch the other one.

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this may be because there are human remains at the second site, which makes it a war grave. its against federal law to disturb those IIRC

It was a "non-fatal collision" between the two aircraft [0]. Both pilots were rescued [1]. One aircraft was recovered without incident; the other sits corroding at the bottom of the lake. While the second corsair is in worse shape than the first one and therefore a much more significant challenge to recover, I know several people who would jump at the chance to try if they could get permission from the Navy.

[0] http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/goodyear-fg-1d-corsai... [1] http://www.dcsfilms.com/Site_4/Corsair_lake_washington.html

I was just reading about the Lake Washington corsair while I was at the museum lately. It's so cool To hear that there's another one down there.

If you're ever in the museum with time to kill, talk to the docents (in the blue jackets). Almost all of them have pretty amazing stories.

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