[smokingfrog]

Looks like aluminum scrap to me.

80¢ LB.

[jboot]

You'd be astonished what restorers can do. Back in '88 I toured Paul Garber. They had a Japanese Aichi seaplane that had just been found somewhere in an Indonesian jungle. They had shipped it home in a huge crate with all the soil and vegetation around it still attached. It looked like a burnt log, not an aircraft. There were no recognizable aircraft forms. I recently say it on display at the Udvar-Hazy museum. It looks like a new aircraft (which it mostly is, I'm sure).

In the right hands, these Spits will live again.

[tanknetter]

Google the following: “data plate restoration”. These aircraft will fly again, probably with less than 10% of their original material and structure remaining.

[trailhkr1]

Looks like aluminum scrap to me.

There is probably a bunch of brackets and small parts you don't see in the pics that restorers need is what is making this worth some money.