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"Slender, Tender, & Tall"

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Serial #: 44-74950
Construction #:
  122-41490
Civil Registration:
  N5464V
  N511D
  N20JS
  N7496W
  NL51DT
Model: P-51D
Name:
  Slender, Tender, & Tall
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002
   History:
Registered as N5464V by ???, 19??.
Melvyn Paisley, Great Falls, MT, 1963.
- Registered as N511D
Mustang Pilots Club, Van Nuys, CA, 1963-1972.
- Crashed and destroyed, near Palmdale, CA, August 25, 1971.
-- Suffered structural failure in flight (left wing seperated) during aerobatics.
ID transferred to CA-18/CN: 1500
John P. Silberman, Key West & Tampa, FL, 1976-1984.
- Registered as N20JS
- Flew as Black Cat.
Selby R. Burch, Winter Garden, FL, Nov. 1984-1993.
- Registered as N7496W
Dick Thurman/RDT Aviation Corp, Louisville, KY, 1993-1995.
Dick Thurman/Vintage Warbirds Inc., Louisville, KY, 1995-1999.
- Registered as NL51DT
Tom Blair, Potomac, MD, 1999-2002.
- Flown as 414812/HO-T/"Slender, Tender & Tall".
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.
Federal Aviation Administration, www.faa.gov, Washington D.C., 2005.
 Photo Source(s):
tt Rose - Warbirds Resource Group, www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org, 2002
Nigel Roling - Pentavia Digital Imaging, http://website.lineone.net/~roling46/, 2002
Caz Caswell.