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Freshly listed.

Ex Soplata bird.

No clue on the current owner.

Edit...images link do not seem to work.

https://www.platinumfighters.com/inventory-2/1945-republic-p-47n-thunderbolt

Cool! I was wondering what happened to the P-47 that Walter had.

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Thanks, Michel - I always wondered how far this fuselage was finished when production stopped; looks a bit more complete in the cockpit than I expected. For sure whoever restores it will have the lowest-time P-47 in the world!
It's listed as serial #171; I'm guessing that's a factory c/n? The USAAF serial would have been somewhere in the 44-89451 to 44-89455 area (last completed at Evansville was 44-89450 per Baugher).

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Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)

The P-47D project that is now painted as “Nellie B” was also built up around an unused N fuselage

Is that the one Stephen Grey had finished in Chino?

It is, yes. From memory it was a composite of a new N fuselage, one wing out of South America (Brazil?) and one wing with the outer section rebuilt from the crashed Robin Collord N47DD.

It also has a very nice wooden box in the rear fuselage.

That would be really cool to see finished as a late model N, with all the bells and whistles, autopilot, etc. The ultimate Thunderbolt.

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Maybe the CAF Dixie Wing could raise money and buy it. They just missed getting the P-47N now assigned to the San Diego CAF Wing.

Would be nice to see the CAF get back into a position and buy a few actual planes instead of the steady trend we've seen over the past 20 years as aircraft are sold.

P-38 (Last one needed to complete the WWII Fighter Collection)
A-20
HE.111
BF-109
Spitfire

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Just a minor correction. The CAF P-47N project was assigned to the Southern California Wing in Camarillo, CA.

Randy

Haha!, That's the one then. Last time it passed through Chino I checked and it was still there...