P-40 Restoration 42-10510

[PinecastleAAF]

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

Enjoy fellow P-40 fans.

[Dan K]

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

Enjoy fellow P-40 fans.

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.

[PinecastleAAF]

Maybe 42-105710.

[Dan K]

Maybe 42-105710.

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

[Buz]

Just a typo serial number should be 42-105120 a P-40N of 11FS/343FG, so an Allison would be correct.

[BenG]

C&G Air website: http://www.warbirdsocala.com/p40n-underwing.html

[Dan K]

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?

[Django]

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

[hang the expense]

[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.

[Nathan]

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.

[ChrisDNT]

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

Perhaps too many shark-mouthed ones