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Serial #: 45-49167 Construction #: 399-55706 Civil Registration: N47DB Model: P-47D Name: None Status: Display Last info: 2002 |
History: Delivered to FA Peruana as as 540, later FAP116. - BOC: Mar. 16, 1953. - Open storage, Piura AB, Peru, 1963-1969. Ed Jurist/Vintage Aircraft International Ltd, Nyack, NY, July 24, 1969-1975. - Registered as N47DB. - Arrived onboard SS Rosaldina to Brownville, TX, Sept. 5, 1969. - Assembled by CAF, Harlingen, TX, First flight Dec. 2, 1971. - Flew as 353rd FG/226422/LH-E. - Raced at Reno #13 by M.L. Gardner, Sept. 1974. David Tallichet/Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, Chino, CA, Apr. 30, 1975-1981. - Stored Barstow-Daggett, CA, 1975. - Displayed at Restaurant, St. Petersburg, FL. -- Damaged by storm, rebuilt at Chino. 1979. USAFM Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, May 1981-2002. - Displayed as 432718. |
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):
Tony Andrews.