Vintage Atwood .049 Model Airplane Engine With Fuel line RC Models

Description

Up for auction is a Vintage .049 Atwood Model Airplane Engine -Ava
PROVENANCE OF THIS ENGINE
My father inventory reveals he purchased this
engine in 1960 while we were stationed at Kirkland, Air Force Base in New Mexico.
This engines appears very clean and in good condition (and my father was exceedingly fastidious concerning the aforementioned) as I am not credentialed to delineate any further details.
Background of Owner
This engine was part of my father's extensive model engine collection. Dad began building
model airplanes in the 1930s in Everette, Washington. The Boeing Aircraft Plant was not
too far from his boyhood home - Rainier Street, Everette WA. Dad learned to fly by
age fifteen, and was a Seaplane Pilot in his early teens as well.
Upon graduating from high school in May of 1941, Dad joined the Army Air Corps
- just ten days later at the age of seventeen.
After initial induction into the joint Army Air Corp in Lackland, Texas Dad was ordered to Wichita Falls, Texas. There Dad taught hundreds if not thousands of men how to fly both the B-25 and B-29 Mitchell Bombers - part of the concurrent United States' mob-up and Lend/Lease Agreement with England.
At the age twenty my father bought his first airplane and name it "Peer Gynt". His father, an accomplished military musician; a Norwegian emigre, who joined the US Army in 1915 to acquire US citizenship. Grandfather,Olaf Tbjoranson Ore'Hauggen, thus found himself part of last expeditionary force of U.S. Cavalry; encamped with Pershing and Patton against Pancho Via, thereabouts Deming, New Mexico. Naturally, my grandfather was ordered to France when America entered the Great War, on the heels of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1917 a result
of a German U-Boat asset.
Ret. Lt. Colonel Hagen (33 years active, our sir name Anglicized) remained in Wichita Falls thereafter until the European Theater fell late April, early May of 1945.  Dad was subsequently ordered to the Pacific Theater (in country but two months) when Truman
ordered the atomic bombings of Japan, of which resulted in the Emperor surrendering
as officially
documented on the USS Missouri on September 8,1945.
If you didn't
know much too much American history here's but a smattering
.
It is my greatest hope, that whomever subsequently buys this engine enjoys it as much as my late father Colonel Hagen, an avid a model airplane builder - nearly seventy years of his life.
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