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Serial #: 44-2433 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: N57591 Model: P-39Q-15BE Name: Galloping Gertie Status: Display Last info: 2002 |
History: Built in Buffalo, NY. Delivered to USAAF as 44-2433. - BOC: Nov. 14, 1943. - SOC: Dec. 6, 1944. - Allocated to 369th FG, Hamilton Field, CA. - Served at Moses Lake Field, Paine Field, and McChord Feiled, WA. - Transferred to War Assets Administration depot in Ponca City, OK for disposal. P. J. "Sep" Mighton/Earl Ortman, Tulsa, OK, 1946. - Registered as NX57591. - Flown as Cleveland Air Races as #12/Juba by Charles W. Bing. Elizabeth Haas, Scarsdale, NY, Dec. 4, 1946-1954. - Registered as N57591. - Flown as race #12/"Galloping Gertie". - Painted in red & white scheme. - Loaned to National Air Museum, 1950. -- Stored at Orchard Place Airport (now O'Hare International), Chicago, IL. NASM, Washington DC, 1956-2002. - Loaned to EAA Museum, 1970-1984. - Stored at Silver Hill, MD, 1987-1999. - Loaned to Niagara Aerospace Museum, Niagara Falls, NY, 1999-2002. -- Displayed as "Galloping Gertie". |
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Source(s): Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989. Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003. Photo Source(s): Glenn Chatfield Tony Andrews. |
