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 Post subject: F-51H Project
PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 5:35 pm 
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Looks like this one has been sold:

http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/Current ... -64697.htm

Anyone have more info?


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 Post subject: Re: F-51H Project
PostPosted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 9:43 pm 
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I've been wondering whatever happened with that one - much of the components and the s/n were from an Arizona crash site recovery; there was a chapter about it in the book Wreckchasing. It was a rare case of a plane whose components were scattered but untouched since the 1951 crash when the Air Force recovered the remains of the pilot, tagged it and left. The people who recovered it gave one of the rudder pedals to the pilot's family, and eventually sold the rest to a restorer in Texas who had an H-model fuselage. Hope the new owner puts it back in its original markings.

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 Post subject: Re: F-51H Project
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It seems like there have been tow H model projects that have changed hands in recent years. Plus a few pieces of a "G" and the two P-82's being built up.
Looks like we may finally see some of the late model Mustangs in the air in a few years.


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 Post subject: Re: F-51H Project
PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 9:29 am 
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marine air wrote:
It seems like there have been tow H model projects that have changed hands in recent years.

Do you have IDs for those, or have they been combined into this one project?


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