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"Late For Dinner"

Serial #: 44-73849
Construction #:
  122-40389
Civil Registration:
  N6516D
  N335J
  N835J
  N51WH
  N51JL
Model: P-51D
Name: Late For Dinner
Status: Crashed
Last info: 1984
   History:
Delivered to RCAF as 9247.
- BOC: Dec. 6, 1950.
- SOC: Dec. 27, 1957.
James H. Defuria & Fred J. Ritts/Intercontinental Airways, Conastota, NY, Nov. 26, 1956.
- Registered as N6516D.
Aero Enterprises, Elkhart, IN, May 10, 1960.
Ed Weiner, Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 1960-1962.
- Registered as N335J.
Aero Enterprises, Elkhart, IN, June 21, 1962-1963.
- Registered as N835J
Joseph A. Truhill, Addison, TX, Nov. 2, 1964-1965.
Jim Vandeveer, Dallas, TX, Oct. 1, 1965-1971.
Gerald A. Swayze, Mesquite, TX, Jan. 13, 1971.
Robert Walker, Tulsa, OK, Nov. 1971-1973.
William E. Harrison, Tulsa, OK, Apr. 19, 1973-1974.
- Registered as N51WH.
Jack N. Levine, Livonia, MI, Oct. 1974-1984.
- Registered as N51JL.
- Flew as "Jack's Toddie III", circa 1981-1982.
- Later flew as "Late for Dinner", 1983.
- Crashed and destroyed, New Haven, MI, Nov. 17, 1984.
-- Levine killed.


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):
Caz Caswell