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    Airframe Family: Curtiss 81/P-40 Tomahawk / 87/P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk
    Latest Model:Kittyhawk I
    Last Military Serial:1034 RCAF
    Construction Number:AK803
    Last Civil Registration:C-GHTM
    Compressed ID:Curtiss Kittyhawk I sn 1034 RCAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:West Coast Museum of Flying Society, Victoria Airport (formerly Patricia Bay Airport), Victoria, British Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    1941

    Constructed as a Kittyhawk I.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n AK803.

    From 16 October 1941 to 23 August 1946

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1034.

    To George Maude of Sidney, BC.
    Purchased at Auction for 50 dollars.

    Transported by ship.
    Delivered by barge to Salt Spring Island, BC.

    From 1946 to 1974

    Stored in the open at Salt Spring Island, BC.

    From 1974 to 2007

    To George (and) David Maude, Patricia Bay Airport, Vancouver Island with new c/r C-GHTM.

    1974

    Restored.

    From 1989 to 1993

    Loaned to Commonwealth Military Aviation Museum, Sidney, BC.

    From 1995 to 1997

    Loaned to West Coast Museum of Flying Society, Victoria Airport (formerly Patricia Bay Airport), Victoria, BC.
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    Markings Applied: PN

    15 September 2012


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Victoria Airport on Vancouver Island

    2018

    Placed up for sale for $1,895,000 USD.
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