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Jarrett/Rust/Tallman Pfalz D.XII
Frank Tallman obtained four World War I airframes in 1950, a Nieuport 28, a SPAD VII, a Sopwith Camel, and this Pfalz D.XII, from Colonel J.B. Jarrett, a World War I artifact collector of some note. The four airplanes, or what was left of them, had been stored outside and were in terrible condition…really basket case condition. The Pfalz was one of many German airplanes earlier brought to the U.S. at the end of World War I for military use. It was later sold as surplus and appeared in the film Dawn Patrol as set dressing. After Jarrett bought the airplane in 1936, it was placed on museum display at his New Jersey facility. When Tallman got the airplane, he agreed to trade the SPAD to Robert Rust of Atlanta, Georgia, in exchange for the restoration work on the Pfalz. The airplane was transported from New Jersey to Atlanta as a pile of broken parts but, over the course of the next four years, Rust restored and rebuilt the airplane back to flying condition. Registered as N43C, Tallman took it back into the air in January 1959. It moved with Tallman to his new base at FlaBob Airport at Riverside, California, where this 1960 photo was taken. The airplane joined the Tallmantz collection in 1961, though it was rarely flown. (Jack Canary via San Diego Aerospace Museum)
