SORRY

After almost a year of trying, the Surplus War Property Administration admitted this week that the Government had managed to sell the U.S. public only 6,912 of its 27,253 used aircraft.

Best sellers: 1) the feathery, civilian-type Piper Cub (used for pilot training); 2) the puddle-jumping Taylorcrafts, Fairchilds, Aeroncas and Ryans (used for screening cadets and artillery observation). No sale: advanced trainers, multi-motored bombers, fighters. Reasons: suci craft are too expensive, some are altogether too "hot" for the average civilian pilot.

Despite its weak sales approach, SWPA succeeded admirably in discounting two popular myths:

P: Viewers-with-alarm feared that many surplus war products might glut the post-war market, now realize they may be as hard to sell as a shot-up dive bomber.

P: Surplus bombers, which the British feared would be used by the U.S. to dominate world air-cargo routes, are already being turned down by airlines as too expensive to convert and operate.

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