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Serial #: 44-49406
Construction #:
  399-55945
Civil Registration:
  N7159Z
Model: P-47D
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2002
  History:
Delivered to Brazilian AF as F-47/4192.
- BOC: Sept. 10, 1953.
- Instructional airframe, Sao Jose dos Campos AB, Jan. 14, 1960.
- Displayed, Campo Grande AB, 19??.
- Displayed, Natal AB, 1986.
Museu Aeospecial, Campo dos Afonsos, Rio, 19??.
Airplane Sales International, Santa Monica, CA, 1988-1990.
- Arrived dismantled, Chino, CA from Brazil, Sept. 1988.
Victor Haluska/Santa Monica Propeller Inc, Santa Monica, CA, July 1990-1992.
- Registered as N7159Z.
Dick Wixom/Wixair Inc, Janesville, WI, May 1993-1998.
- Restoration to airworthy, Rialto, CA, 1997-2001.
Flying Heritage Collection, Bellevue, WA, Aug. 26, 1998-2001.
Flying Heritage Inc, Bellevue, WA, Mar. 9, 2001-2002.
- Under restoration to airworthy.

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):
None.