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Serial #: 44-2433 Construction #: ? Civil Registration: N57591 |
Model(s): P-39Q-15BE Airacobra Name: Galloping Gertie Status: Display Last info: 2002 |
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. |
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