Unfortunately long term submersion in salt water makes it impossible to restore that plane. Pity.
Dennis

With a data plate and money, anything is restoreable these days!
Chris...

It's not so easy to get something out of the water. In effect removing it from the water can cause it to disintegrate unless you reimmerse it in water and then there is a process to stableize it to be once again a land based object. The only metal that doesn't corrode under salt water is of course gold, which is why fortune hunters love the stuff.

Hi guys,
There was a cable special about a P-38 recoverd from inside a galcier and there was an awful lot of money spent and a huge amount of fabrication that had to be done to bring that plane back to flying condition so I would say that Chris was dead on in his post. However, salt water obviously compicates the issue as far as structural integrity goes so someone would have to devote a decade or more of their life and multiple millions of dollars to bring that "find", back to actually being an airplane.

                                                                Pat Robinson