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    Airframe Family: North American A-36 / P-51/F-51 Mustang / P-48 Enforcer
    Latest Model:TF-51D Mustang
    Last Military Serial:FAB 521 FABo
    Last Civil Registration:N20TF
    Latest Owner or Location:Comanche Fighters / Tom and Dan Friedkin, Comanche Ranch, Houston, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    December 1967

    Constructed as a TF-51D by Cavalier.

    December 1967

    Assigned s/n 67-14866 with the United States Air Force for administrative purposes. It did not serve with this service.
    USAF procured for export to Bolivia under Peace Condor Program.

    From 19 January 1968 to 1977

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea Boliviana with s/n FAB 521.

    19 January 1968

    Transferred to Grupo Aereo de Combate 31, El Alto Air Base.

    Transferred to Air Group, de Caza.

    December 1977

    To Arny Carnegie, Edmonton, AB with new c/r C-GXUR.

    22 May 1978


    Photographer: Malcolm Gougan Collection
    Notes: Photographed at Loveland, CO.

    22 May 1978


    Photographer: Malcolm Gougan Collection
    Notes: Photographed at Loveland, CO.

    From 16 November 1978 to 1991

    To Neil J. McClain/McClain Flight Service, Strathmore, AB keeping c/r C-GXUR.

    31 July 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    October 1991

    To Tom Friedkin/Cinema Air, Houston, TX with new c/r N20TF.

    8 November 1991

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL20TF (TF-51D, AF67-14866) issued.

    19 September 2000

    Damaged.
    Forced landing gear-up, near Sugarland TX.

    From 2001 to 2003

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: USAAF, DF-X
    Rebuilt at Chino.

    17 December 2001

    To Tom Friedkin/Chino Warbirds Inc/Comanche Warbirds Inc, Chino, CA keeping c/r N20TF.

    17 December 2001

    To Comanche Warbirds Inc, Houston, TX keeping c/r N20TF.

    6 May 2003

    First post-restoration Flight.

    From 8 May 2003 to October 2003

    Aircraft was dismantled at Chino and shipped to the U.K. to fly in the British 2003 air show season. Was dismantled at Duxford for return shipment.

    19 May 2006


    Photographer: Kenneth M. Hare Collection
    Notes: TF-51D NL20TF at Chino Ap., Ca. May 19, 2006

    28 September 2007


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: GML, Columbus, OH. Coded DF*X

    1 January 2008

    Certificate of airworthiness for N20TF (TF-51D, AF67-14866) issued.

    2010

    Markings Applied: WZ-Y, 463187, Bum Steer

    23 April 2012

    To Comanche Warbirds Inc, Houston, TX keeping c/r N20TF.

    In the inventory of Comanche Fighters/Tom and Dan Friedkin, Comanche Ranch, Houston, TX.
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    6 April 2018


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Space Coast Warbird Show (formerly TICO Airshow) Titusville, FL.

    3 November 2018


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Blue Angels Homecoming Airshow, NAS Pensacola, Fl

    24 June 2023


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    Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Aero Flight
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    MustangsMustangs.com by Curtis Fowles
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall

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