Now for the research part. I thought that the airplane looked familiar, and when I got back home I realised that there had been photos of that exact airplane posted on Facebook just a few weeks earlier. The color scheme was very unique, and the landing gear had been modified to be unlike any standard Pietenpol Here are a couple of those photos
We think the photos were taken about 1940, and the name on the cowling is "Blitzkrieg", kind of a strange name for a little Pietenpol in America in 1940.
Colors are red and white as shown on the tattered original fabric still on the airframe. But there were traces of yellow and black paint under the red and white, and looking closely at the rudder fabric you could see the number 14143 visible under the red and white, and roughly scrawled in grease pencil on one side.
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