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P-51H taken at Chanute AFB in 1974.
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This is me next to the P-51H at Chanute AFB in 1962 when I was going through Minuteman Tech School.

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This is what the same P-51H looked like when I saw it in 2006.

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Where is that airplane now. Looks like it got some well deserved attention.

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Chris Henry
EAA Aviation Museum Manager

It's still at Chanute at the museum that is located in Rantoul, IL. When the base closed in 1995 some of the display aircraft were left and the Octave Chanute Museum was opened in one of the old hangers. It is located in the same hanger I went to tech school in 1962 for Minuteman Missile.

Info on P51-H restoration at

http://home.insightbb.com/~p51h/index.htm

Here's how 44-64265 looked back then:



and here a few pisc of how it looks today....











Martin

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Flying is easy: just learn how to throw yourself at the ground and miss

In the Spring of 1969, I was a student at Chanute Air Force Base mechanic school. I saw the Mustang there, but at that time I really didn't know what a Mustang was. It was a pretty gloomy place.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK