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PinecastleAAF
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This one is not in the registry unless the serial number is a mistake. It is being restored here in Florida at Leeward Air Ranch. This story was in the paper today.

http://www.ocala.com/article/20101110/a ... p;tc=yahoo

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PinecastleAAF wrote:
This one is not in the registry unless the serial number is a mistake. It is being restored here in Florida at Leeward Air Ranch. This story was in the paper today.

http://www.ocala.com/article/20101110/a ... p;tc=yahoo

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Hmmm...

So he's using a recovered "main engine mounting strut" from a P-40L, but the article states the rebuild mounts an Allison. Is that accurate?

Nice to see another Curtiss getting rebuilt though.

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Maybe 42-105710.

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PinecastleAAF wrote:
Maybe 42-105710.



Logical guess, but Baugher says 42-105710 was recovered from New Guinea in 1974.

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Just a typo serial number should be 42-105120 a P-40N of 11FS/343FG, so an Allison would be correct.
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C&G Air website: http://www.warbirdsocala.com/p40n-underwing.html
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Thanks for clarifying, Gents!

I'm familiar with two more stateside projects (P-40K) not in the registry whose respective owners wish to remain off the radar for now.

Can one ever have too many P-40? :wink:

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So I wonder if it will wear Aleutian markings or 23rd FG markings?

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[quote="Django"]So I wonder if it will wear Aleutian markings or 23rd FG markings?[/quote I remember when the remains of that bird came out of alaska. The airforce blew it up in the 50s by placing a small charge in the cockpit.It did a nasty job.My K will be 49th FG of Nick Nichols.

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P-40K's also saw lots of service in the South Pacific. Practically every model of P-40 was used in the Pacific. "D" models could be found post Pearl Harbor on Oahu. Even a few "L" models found their way to the Pacific.

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"Can one ever have too many P-40?"

Perhaps too many shark-mouthed ones ;-)
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