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After March 22, 2002 accident.
2004 RESTORATION IMAGES
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Serial #: 45-53436 Construction #: N/A Civil Registration: N478C N47TB Model: P-47N Name: Meat Chopper Status: Restoration Last info: 2004 |
History: Delivered to Guatamalan AF as ???, 1953-1954. - Used in CIA operations. Delivered to GN Nicaraguana as GN71. - BOC: June 16, 1954. - SOC: 1962. Dick Disney/Confederate Air Force, TX, 1962. Lloyd P. Nolan/Thunderbolt & Co, Mercedes, TX, Feb. 7, 1963-1970. - Delivered from Managua. - Registered as N478C. CAF/Commemorative Air Force, Harlingen, TX, 1970-2002 - Registered as N47TB. - Crashed (struck a tree) during emergency landing caused by fuel starvation, Vero Beach, FL, Apr. 29, 1971. - Rebuilt, 1976. - Flew as USAAF/UN-S. - Loaned to Cavanaugh Flight Museum, Addison, TX, 1994-2001. -- Nosed over on landing, Dallas, TX, Oct. 16, 2000. -- Repaired, 1976. -- Flew as "Meat Chopper". - Heavily damaged in accident, Albuquerque, NM, March 21, 2002. -- Under Restoration to airworthy. USCR quotes ID as 453436 (later 44-89136), CAF IDs airframe as 44-53436, other sources ID airframe as 44-88436 or 45-53456 or 44-89436. |
Stored at Cavanaugh Flight Museum, October 2002.
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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): Unknown Nicolai Musante, http://www.musante.dk/tour0202/, 2002 Doug Jeanes/Cavanaugh Flight Museum via Alan Brooks. |
