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I happend on this site and up pops Jerry Delarms name and some questions about him.

Jerry showed up at Tocumen International Airport in Panama with a Lockheed Lodestar which actually had operating bomb bay doors.
A little background on Jerry will help here: Jerry was raised in the south Florida area ( american indian background) and his father had started one of the Florida to Bahamas airways. Jerry and my father were friends from another era in Central America so Jerry being in need, he flew into Panama to see my father.
My father knew Jerry quite well and before he would help him, he had Jerry sign the aircraft over to him. The P&W engines needed some work so my father provided the money and a location on the airfield for the work to get underway.
As a young kid of 15-16, I was impressed with Jerry's free style of life and we went many places, and I listened to many stories including, P-47's in Guatemala, using the Locheed to drop some stuff on the "bad-guys". etc.
He stayed with us at our home and I heard some wild stories, with my dad shaking his head in disbelief that Jerry would actually be talking about some of the things that should not be mentioned anywhere.
Several weeks later, the aircraft repairs were complete and Jerry told my dad he wanted to take the plane out for a "local test flight". He took off and radioed back that he had several more adjustments to make and would go a bit farther. Last we heard he landed in San Jose, Costa Rica, and then shortly after that he went elsewhere. My father cussed like crazy, but he said he had known better, so much for the $$$$$.
Jerry was not a bad guy, just marched to the beat of different drummer. I would like to know what finally happened to him. My father passed 10 years ago, but every now and then, I think about Jerry and the Lockheed.