What airplane is this?

[Neal Nurmi]

Seen in Chino in the summer of 1986...

[hang the expense]

Planes of fame back lot IIRC. I wonder if that is the one that is in Charlie Nichols hangar these days.Looks to be an E model.

[Chris Brame]

Maybe this one?
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p40regis ... ak827.html
Old photos of AK827 when it was with Weather Modification Co. as N1223N show those solid (or painted over?) panels behind the canopy.

[bdk]

Jerry Miles owned it at the time, and I think your photo predates 1986. It was the one out of the Harrah's collection and Johnny Maloney started doing some work on it at Chino. It was then sold on to Bill Destefani before much work was completed. I remember Johnny stripping the paint off the fuselage and starting modifications for the rear passenger seat.

http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p40regis ... 35795.html

I think the dates in the registry are wacked out though, so don't go by them.

http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... hp?t=27855

Flying at the Madera Airshow in 1982? I don't think that is correct either!

http://www.p40warhawk.com/P-40sToday/Di ... N123ZN.htm

[Neal Nurmi]

Are you pretty sure of all that, BDK? The slide is marked May 1986, so would probably have been at the time of the 1986 Chino show. It would be nice to be able to label the slide with some certainty.

Seems like the timeline could fit the Nichols airplane better if my shot really is 1986.. Was any work done on his stuff over in Steve's shop? Was the Yanks restoration facility operating in 1986?

[T J Johansen]

Flying at the Madera Airshow in 1982? I don't think that is correct either!

http://www.p40warhawk.com/P-40sToday/Di ... N123ZN.htm

That website has several wrong entries in regard to the P-40 family. If you read the heading on that particular airframe it calls it out as N1232N with (N1009N) in parenthesis. They are two different aircraft and the photos depict as much. N1009N was Tom Camp's P-40 and is reported to have flown around 1982. It went To The Fighter Collection. The first two photos show that Warhawk. The rest of the set shows N1232N.

Photos of N1009N here (scroll down 2/3 of the page): http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthre ... 2013/page9

T J

[Badman]

[quote="bdk"]Jerry Miles owned it at the time, and I think your photo predates 1986. It was the one out of the Harrah's collection and Johnny Maloney started doing some work on it at Chino. It was then sold on to Bill Destefani before much work was completed. I remember Johnny stripping the paint off the fuselage and starting modifications for the rear passenger seat.

I have no idea what P-40 is in Neal's photo, but I'm pretty sure that Destefani's P-40M was still in the process of restoration and hadn't flown yet at the 1985 Bakersfield air races as he had it parked in front of his hanger minus the engine and other important parts for flying. If Neal's date of 1986 is correct, his photo is definitely NOT Destefani's P-40M.

[cwmc]

Frank Taylor's?