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Max has a prop, needs an instrument

I have an appeal from Max Church: " In the late 1950's my dad and 5 others went together and purchased a J-3 to learn to fly. It was in the winter and he was taxiing out to the runway to take off and hit a ice ridge left by the snow plow clearing the runway. He was left with two options: Hold the stick back and jab the throttle to hop over the ridge, or shut it off and push it over the ridge and walk back to tarmac and have someone come out to prop the engine for him. Since it was cold out he jabbed the throttle and it nosed over on him curling the tips of the prop. I remember him telling me how it cost him $60 to replace the prop and being a young father with four kids at home it was too expensive for him and he quit flying, but always had a passion for flying. He has since passed away and I now have that prop. I would love to make a wall display with the prop, a photograph of a cub of that era and one of the instruments that would have been found in that plane. Is there a source where I might be able to pick up an instrument or even just the face of an instrument to put in the display?"

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