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"Grim Reaper"


Serial #: 44-63701
Construction #:
  122-31427
Civil Registration:
  N51VT
  N26PW
Model: P-51D-20NA
Name: Grim Reaper
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2003
  History:
Delivered to Swedish AF as Fv26015.
- BOC: Apr. 23, 1945.
- SOC: 1952.
Delivered to FA Dominicana as FAD 1904, Oct. 1952-1984.
Brian O'Farrell/Johnson Aviation, Miami, FL, May 19, 1984-1987.
Vincent Tirado, Miami, FL, 1987-1996.
- Rebuilt to airworthy, 1987-1997.
- Registered as N51VT.
Bruce Moorehouse, San Antonio, TX, 1998.
Plane Works Inc, Rockford, IL, Jan. 27, 1999-2000.
- Registered as N26PW.
Sal Rubino/Almanor Aviation, San Jose, CA, March 20, 2000-2003.
- Flown as 463702/Grim Reaper.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2002.
Sal Rubino.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Photo Source(s):
None.