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After 65 years at the bottom of a San Diego reservoir, salvage teams have obtained necessary permission to raise a World War II Navy dive bomber.
City and state permits have been obtained for a $125,000 operation to bring up the SB2C-4 Helldiver from Lower Otay Reservoir, said Nelson Manville, a city assistant lakes manager.
The work could begin within a few weeks, with the goal of eventually displaying the plane in the National Naval Aviation Museum in Florida.
"We're just waiting for the recovery team and museum to give us a date," Manville told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "This is drinking water, so a lot is going into this because we're going to have to shut the lake down from the system."
Divers with Chicago-based salvage firm A&T Recovery examined the plane last year and will have to dredge silt from around the aircraft to see whether it can be recovered.
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