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"Crusader"

Serial #: 44-74582
Construction #:
  122-41122
Civil Registration:
  N6524D
  N6329T
  N51JT
Model: P-51D-30NA
Name: Crusader
Status: Airworthy
Last Info: 2002
   History:
Delivered to RCAF as 9253.
- BOC: Dec. 6, 1950.
- SOC: Aug. 19, 1959.
James H. Defuria/Intercontinental Airways, Canastota, NY, Nov. July 21. 1958.
- Registered as N6524D.
Aero Enterprises, Elkhart, IN, Nov. 1960-1961.
- Registered as N6329T.
A.G. Ainsworth/A-Mack Co, Luling, TX, Oct. 1961-1963.
Landon Cullum, Wichita Falls, TX, Mar. 13, 1963-1984.
John C. Hooper, Harvey, LA, 1984-1987.
Robert Byrne/Byrne Aviation Inc, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1988-1990.
Joseph Thibodeau, Denver, CO, Jan. 8 1991-2001.
- Registered as N6329T.
- Registration N51JT reserved but not taken up, Feb. 1991.
- Flew as race #21/474582/FF-582/"Sump'n Else".
- Flown as "Crusader".

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.
Scott Rose - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2002