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The topic of Jackie Cochran's P-51B came up on the Warbird site, making me think about what might have happened to her Staggerwing. Anyone have any ideas?

Col. Rohr wrote:

beachgirl wrote:The topic of Jackie Cochran's P-51B came up on the Warbird site, making me think about what might have happened to her Staggerwing. Anyone have any ideas?

I beleive its on display with the Staggerwing Musuem.

Cheers

RER

If they do Rob, they aren't bragging about it. It's not listed in their collection.
It should be a D17W, or as purported to be converted to a D17R when impressed in the Air Corps in WW2 served as a UC-43K.(Warbird!)
www.staggerwing.com

Thank you!

My Staggering book lists it as crashed while in Army service and not rebuilt. This was SN164 and was a D17W but converted to a 600(!)HP P/W 985. Bummer.... that would have been a neat one to survive today.

I have a couple of photos of this Staggerwing. I'll post them soon.