Westpac Restorations (Klaers Aviation)

Co-owners: William Klaers & Allan Wojciak
L67, Art Scholl Field
Rialto, CA
Tel  909 874 9108

Restoration facility at Rialto Municipal Airport. Westpac owns several WWII aircraft, and is currently involved in with restoration work with warbird clients. WestPac completed a meticulous restoration of a P-51D flown by Bud Tordoff for Paul Allen's Group / Heritage Flight Museum.

The group has worked with Australian 75 Squadron to recover P-47 and P-38 wreckage from Finschafen, Papua New Guinea.  The details of these recoveries, clients and even photographs of the wrecks are not available to the public due to confidentiality agreements.  Despite this, several articles, including Aeroplane Monthly "Buried Thunderbolts to Fly Again" (May 2004) and Warbirds International "Out of the Pit" by Michael (May 2004).

Aircraft Collection

  P-47D Serial Number 45-49385

  B-25J Serial Number 44-86715

  F7F-3E Bearcat Bureau Number 80375

Restoration Projects (Reported)

  P-38J-15 "Jandina III" Serial Number 42-103988

  P-38F-5 Serial Number 42-12652 Nose Number 33


  P-47D-11-RE Thunderbolt Serial Number 42-75284

  P-47D Thunderbolt Serial Number 42-22521

  P-47D-2-RE Thunderbolt Serial Number 42-8074

 

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