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P-51 MUSTANG/44-73973
P-51 Mustang 44-73973
Serial #: 44-73973
Construction #: 122-40513
Civil Registration:
  N6325T
  N35DD
  N37FF
  N51WH
  N51JC
  C-GJCJ
  N151DP
Model(s):
  P-51D-25NA Mustang
Name: Cottonmouth
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002
History:
Delivered to Royal Canadian Air Force as 9281.
- BOC: January 23, 1951.
- SOC: April 29, 1958.
James Defuria/Fred Ritts/Intercontinental Airways, Conastota, NY, February 25, 1957-1960.
- Registered as N6325T.
Aero Enterprises, Elkhart, IN, May 10, 1960-1962.
Peter Rosi, Notre Dame, IN, October 1962-1963.
Aero Enterprises, Elkhart, IN, April 3, 1963-1964.
Farnum Brown, Michigan City, IN, March 4, 1964.
Joseph D. Wade, Houston, TX, March 6, 1964-1965.
A.E. Lee, Atlanta, GA, October 1965-1966.
James W. Gentle, Birmingham, AL, June 16, 1966-1967.
Wendell K. Trogden, Fort Lauderdale, FL, August 10, 1967-1969.
Delivered to FA Salvadorena as FAS ???, July 1969.
Jack W. Flaherty/Flaherty Factors Inc, Monterey, CA, November 1, 1974-1975.
- Registration N35DD reserved but not taken up.
- Registered as N37FF, March 6, 1975.
Adopted id 44-10755 on return to USA
Jerry C. Janes, Vancouver, BC, August 14, 1975.
- Registered as N51JC.
- Composite parts of various ex-FAS aircraft.
- Rebuilt Chelan, WA, 1976-1977.
- Delivered at Vancouver January 1978.
Jerry C. Janes/Grabber Screw Products, Vancouver, BC, November 1979.
- Registered as C-GJCJ.
- Flew as RAAF/J-CJ.
David C. Price, Los Angeles, CA, November 1983.
- Registered as N51JC.
David G. Price, Santa Monica, CA, January 1984-2002.
- Registered as N151DP.
- Flew as race #49.
- Crashed at Reno, NV, September 17, 1988.
- Rebuilt to Airworthy.
- Flown as Cottonmouth.

P-51 Mustang 44-73973
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):
Mike Henniger.
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