Colour Pics of the Cavalier Turbo Mustang III

[Keith Gaff]

Presently I am putting together the inaugural George Merz Memorial Lecture as part of the Friends of the Royal Australian Air Force Museum activites and the subject will be the history of the North American Mustang. One item I am having great difficulty in tracking down are colour pics of the Cavalier Turbo Mustang III which was produced in the mid-60's and powered by a Roll Royce Dart engine. If anyone has any good shots and is prepared to share I would really appreciate it.

As a footnote George Merz was the first Australian airman to die in combat.

Regards
Keith Gaff
Secretary
Friends of the RAAF Museum

[Swiss Mustangs]

bait taken - will post a few photos tonight

cordially
Martin

[mike furline]

Here's a few,

http://www.mustangsmustangs.us/thehanga ... 5msg_id%25

Regards,
Mike

[Swiss Mustangs]

I was going to post the same photos here - thanks Mike for remembering that thread over on MM - must be getting senile

Martin

[n5151ts]

...15 years ago one of them still existed---as a gate guardian in Calif. somewhere....another murdered airplane on a pole.

[Keith Gaff]

Thanks for that gentlemen

[Randy Haskin]

...15 years ago one of them still existed---as a gate guardian in Calif. somewhere....another murdered airplane on a pole.

There was only ever one Cavalier Turbo Mustang built, and it was remade into the Piper Enforcer.

So, not sure what you saw as a gate guard, but it was not a Turbo Mustang.

[Michel Lemieux]

H'bout a nice pic of the Enforcer in storage at Edwards ? Circa 2006

Courtesy of D Lednioer at airliners.net

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Piper-PA-48-Enforcer/1033933/L/

[Randy Haskin]

H'bout a nice pic of the Enforcer in storage at Edwards ? Circa 2006

Courtesy of D Lednioer at airliners.net

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Piper-PA-48-Enforcer/1033933/L/

FWIW, not the same airplane that the Turbo Mustang was rebuilt into. The aircraft pictured is one of the Piper PA-48s, which were all-new aircraft built from the ground up (vice modified Mustangs).

[Michel Lemieux]

, not the same airplane that the Turbo Mustang was rebuilt into.

I know Randy, but I always liked the Piper Enforcer better in terms of looks

Is this one available for viewing now ? Or is it still stored ?

[n5151ts]

...15 years ago one of them still existed---as a gate guardian in Calif. somewhere....another murdered airplane on a pole.

There was only ever one Cavalier Turbo Mustang built, and it was remade into the Piper Enforcer.

So, not sure what you saw as a gate guard, but it was not a Turbo Mustang.

or 2 or maybe 3....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-48_Enforcer

[mustangdriver]

One of the PA-48's resides in the NMUSAF.

[mike furline]

In 1971, Piper built two Enforcers by heavily modifying two existing Mustang airframes, fitting them with Lycoming YT55-L9A turboprop engines along with numerous other significant modifications. One airframe was a single seat (called the PE-1 and FAA registered as N201PE), the other a dual-control aircraft (the PE-2, registered N202PE). Prior to the Pave COIN evaluation, N202PE was lost in a crash off the Florida Coast due to flutter caused by a Piper-modified elevator trim tab. Although the Enforcer performed well in Pave COIN test flown by USAF pilots, Piper failed to secure an Air Force contract

For another eight years, Piper and Lindsay lobbied Congress to force the USAF to officially re-evaluate the Enforcer. Eventually in the 1979 defense bill $11.9 million was allocated for Piper to build two new prototypes and for the USAF to perform another flight evaluation. Since the Enforcer was never in the Air Force inventory, it was not given an official military designation and did not receive an Air Force serial number. Instead, it carried the Piper designation PA-48 and FAA registration numbers. [1]

By the time the PA-48s were completed, they shared less than 10 percent of their structure with the P-51, and were longer and larger. Essentially, the PA-48 Enforcer was a completely new aircraft.

The two PA-48s were tested during 1983 and 1984 at Eglin AFB, Florida and Edwards AFB, California. As in the Pave COIN tests of 1971, the PA-48s were found to perform well in their intended role, but the USAF again decided not to purchase any.

N481PE - NMUSAF
N482PE - Edwards AFB

[mustangdriver]

...15 years ago one of them still existed---as a gate guardian in Calif. somewhere....another murdered airplane on a pole.

There was only ever one Cavalier Turbo Mustang built, and it was remade into the Piper Enforcer.

So, not sure what you saw as a gate guard, but it was not a Turbo Mustang.

or 2 or maybe 3....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_PA-48_Enforcer

Hey wikipedia must be wrong, it didn't say murdered airplane anywhere.

[Randy Haskin]

I wrote that original wikipedia article on the Enforcer.