Recovery of a World War II Bell P-39Q Airacobra from a lake in the Northwest Territory, Canada. Repairing and flying a 1934 Bellanca Aircrusier in freezing weather from Gimily, Manitoba, Canada back to the U.S. and flying two Consolidated PBY-5A Catalinas from Canada back to the U.S. to be restored.

1992 recovery of The Lost Squadron, P-38 Lightning "Glacier Girl" from 270 Ft. beneath a moving glacier. 1993 raising of the Boeing B-29 "Kee Bird" and running #1 engine. 1995 recovery of Boeing Flying Fortress B-17E "My Gal Sal" from the ice cap and its restoration. 1999 expedition to find B-17E "Sooner" and a B-17G in 1700 Ft. of water.

The "Hornet" is a 28 foot stepped hull hydroplane. One of ten built by Gar Wood between 1929 and 1934 originally owned by Henry J. Kaiser who, after losing the Lake Championship race to Mercury, an all aluminum boat, sent "Hornet" to Howard Hughs who removed the wooden top and designed and built a custom aluminum top. "Hornet" never lost another race and when it was retired in 1953 it had won more races than any other boat in such a short time frame. It is powered by a Packard V-12 model 1A-1237 aircraft engine, one of the oldest Packard V-12's in existence. The engine restoration and installation was done by Sierra Boats, of Lake Tahoe and the aluminum top was restored by Air Pirates.

Recovery of Lt. Ed Dickey's Lockheed P-38H S/N 42-66841 Lightning, investigating the wreck of Lt. Marion Lutes Republic P-47D 42-22687 "Lady of the Clouds" at eight thousand foot level in the Finnesterre Range and locating of many other World War II aircraft in Papua New Guinea.

Recovery of a Sikorsky S-43 "Baby Clipper" and the recovery of a B-17F 42-30861 Flying Fortress from the bottom of a lake.

In October of 1992, at the request of Del and Mike Smith, Gary Larkins traveled to McMinnvile, Oregon to assist in surveying a route for transporting the Spruce Goose from the Willimete river to the Evergreen facility at McMinnville, Oregon. It was an honor to assist in even a small way in the preservation of this great aircraft.

Searching for historic WWII aircraft in the Solomon Islands and finding Zeros, Bettys, and many more.

Recovery of FG-1D Corsair and discovery of other aircraft in Lake Washington. Washington including a PV-2 Harpoon and PB4Y-2 Privateer.

1992 discovery of the rear one third of a Japanese "Miget Submarine" off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. World War II aircraft in Hawaii, Republic P-47 "Thunderbolt" atop Sacrad Falls, Hawaii, Douglas B-18 "Bolo", Douglas "Dauntless" SBD, Grumman F6F "Hellcat", Consolidated PBY-5A "Catalina" ferry flight to mainland, Consolidated PB4Y1 (B-24) Liberator, August 28, 2002 discovery of the "Missing Japanese Midget Submarine" by the University Of Hawaii.