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Aircraft "Amber Alert" PHX - 14 July 2008
Mesa Police Department, Mesa, Arizona, is seeking information on the following theft of a dual axle low-profile trailer containing approximately 2,500 pounds of vintage Lockheed fixed-wing aircraft parts reported stolen earlier today.
Items reported missing are 1940s and 1950s vintage Lockeed aircraft wings - most notably a complete 36' aircraft wing section from a T-33 trainer and starboard wing of a PV-2 Harpoon as removed from a locked and fenced storage compound located one block east of Mesa's Falcon Field municipal airport. These vintage aircraft wing components were strapped to an open 28' trailer and stored in the 5600 block of East McDowell Road, just across the street from the airfield. The trailer was last noted at the site, 5601 East Hermosa Vista Drive, Wednesday, 09 July 2008. Items as stored on the trailer were visible from the ground and air and not covered on the vehicle.
Aircraft wing is painted silver, and has a national "star and bars" insignia consistant with USAF aircraft on one wing. This wing obscures yet another Lockheed aircraft wing cradled underneath the upper wing section. Both components held on this open trailer with cargo straps.
All items are considered property in care of Wingspan Aviation Heritage Foundation, a not-for-profit organization museum located in Mesa, Arizona. A $1,000 reward for the safe return of the items is offered. All area scrap buyers have been notified with negative results and it is now suspected that the motive for the crime may have been the theft of the commercial grade trailer and not necessarily the aviation related components stored upon it.
Anyone with information regarding the missing aircraft items is asked to contact Mesa Police Department at (480) 644-2211 with reference to the following case numbers:
DR #20081960305
DR #20081960354
DR #20081960332
Anonymous information pursuant to this matter may be left in care of Sgt. Theresa Clark, Phoenix Police Department, (602) 495-7815 or email MetalTheftUnit@Phoenix.gov
