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Constructed as a XP-51.
Originally allocated to RAF as AG348 but not delivered. |
20 May 1941 |
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First flight. |
1941 |
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Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-0038. |
1941 |
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Transferred to Wright Field, OH. |
28 December 1941 |
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Transferred to NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, VA. |
2 November 1942 |
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Transferred to Wright Field, OH. |
14 December 1942 |
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Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Army Air Force. |
11 January 1944 |
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To NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, VA. |
25 July 1945 |
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Ferry flight. Delivered to US Aircraft Section, Air Materiel Command, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN.
Set aside for proposed USAAF aviation museum. |
May 1946 |
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Ferry flight. Delivered to aircraft storage area, 803rd Special Depot, Orchard Place Airport, Park Ridge, IL. |
1949 |
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To Smithsonian, National Air Museum, Washington, DC.
Stored Park Ridge, IL. |
1951 |
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Transported by ground.
To National Air Museum storage at Silver Hill, MD. |
1975 |
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To EAA Aviation Foundation, Oshkosh, WI with new c/r N51NA. |
1975 |
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Transported by ground.
To Ft. Collins, CO for restoration. |
1976 |
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First post-restoration Flight. |
July 1976 |
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Ferry flight.
To Oshkosh, WI. |
July 1978 |
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Photographer: Unknown
Notes: Photographed at Oshkosh. |
July 1978 |
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Photographer: Unknown
Notes: Photographed at Oshkosh. |
6 October 1978 |
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Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: The Experimental Aircraft Association displayed their XP-51 at the Confederate Air Force 1978 Airshow at Harlingen, Texas. |
2 November 1979 |
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Certificate of airworthiness for NX51NA (XP-51, 41-038) issued. |
2 August 1982 |
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Last flight. |
2 August 1982 |
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Permanently withdrawn from use. |
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Based at EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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20 July 1983 |
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To EAA Aviation Foundation Inc, Oshkosh, WI keeping c/r N51NA. |
1 January 2002 |
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Certificate of airworthiness for NX51NA (XP-51, 41-038) issued. |
25 August 2010 |
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Photographer: Glenn Chatfield |
25 August 2010 |
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Photographer: Glenn Chatfield |
21 January 2012 |
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Photographer: John Meneely |
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To EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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