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The aircraft shown above was “parked” at Guinn’s airfield along Gihon Road in south Parkersburg for a few years. (Photo Provided)
Before opportunities of simulated flight offered by modern computer games, few children had the opportunity to fulfill the childhood dream of flying. Most kids had to imagine looking over a crowded instrument panel, and could only dream of peering through the blades of a propeller.
But, for a few years, beginning in the late 1940s, the kids living in the Gihon Road area of south Parkersburg, were in “kid heaven;” they had their own P-51 Mustang. ....

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