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"Big Beautiful Doll"

Serial #: 44-84634
Construction #:
  124-44490
Civil Registration:
  N6165U
  N51JV
  N51ES
  N351BD
Model: P-51D-20NA
Name: Big Beautiful Doll
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2004
   History:
Delivered to FA d'L GN Nicaragua as GN 96, 19??.
MACO Sales Financial Corp, Chicago, IL, Sept. 2, 1963.
- Registered as N6165U.
Thomas J. Kuckinsky, Menomonee Falls, WI, 1966-1969.
Aviation Business Services, Inc, 1970.
Air Sales Inc, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1972.
Max I. Ramsay, Johnson, KS, 1978.
Firbird Enterprises, OH, 1984-1989.
- Registered as N51JV.
Ohio Associated Enterprises, Painesville, OH, 1990.
Edward H. Shipley, Malvern, PA, Feb. 1992-2002.
- Registered as N51ES.
- Restored to airworthy, Chino, CA.
- Flown as "Big, Beautiful Doll".
Henningsen Air LLC, Atlantic, Iowa, July 7, 2003-2004.
- Registered as N351BD.

Source(s):
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
MustangsMustangs.com, www.p51.mustangsmustangs.com/p51.shtml, 2002.
 Photo Source(s):
Steven M. Dennis via Mike Henniger.
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