From it's rollout from Tecumseh 12-7-42, it flew as a CPTP trainer at Princeton, WV until 1945.   It seems to have stayed in this area until 1959.   During it's stay in WV, it was used as a glider tow plane.   There are no log book entries from '59-'90.   It was in storage at least some of this time.   The airplane ended up in the Antique Airplane-Airpower Museum.   I spoke to an acquaintance familiar with this plane, and he told me that it flew in Iowa around Des Moines and was wrecked twice.   That's probably how it ended up in the Airpower Museum in pieces.  The Air Museum of Fayetteville, Ark., acquired the project and restored it in 1990 as a display aircraft.   A tornado blew in a hangar door and damaged the aircraft.   It was repaired and sold to an individual in Wichita, Ks., in 1993, and I acquired it from him in 1999.   In August 2000 while returning from Oshkosh, I suffered a catastrophic engine seizure 70 miles southwest of Midway Field in Illinois.   With my wife aboard, we landed in seven foot corn and the airplane flipped upside down as it settled to the ground.  Fortunately we were not injured and the OTW suffered only leading edge damage.   The cause of the engine failure is a suspected bearing seizure which resulted in the master rod breaking.   The aircraft remained upside down in the field for a week until I could return and take her apart.   Over the next 10 months I had to find a new engine and rebuild the airplane.   I used the Airtech process for fabric and paint.   The new engine had 0 hrs SMOH, two fresh mags, overhauled carb, new prop, and an electrical system was added using a Best wind driven alternator to power a starter, radio, and lights.  The airplane flew again on June 11, 2000, after only 10 months of down time.  The OTW is a very well designed airplane as my wife and I found out.   It doesn't glide well without power, however!