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"Little Horse"

Serial #: 45-11586
Construction #:
  124-48339
Civil Registration:
  N5423V
  N51HA
  N13LF
  N51HT
  N51PE
Model: P-51D
Name: Little Horse
Status: Airworthy
Last Info: 2005
   History:
Put up for dispossal at McClellan AFB, CA, Jan. 1957.
Walter D. Oakes, Chicago, IL, 1963-1969.
- Registered as N5423V.
Albert Shirkey, Tulsa, OK, 1978.
Registered as N51HA by ??, 19??.
Lynn L. Florey, FL, 1983-1984.
- Registered as N13LF.
Harry E. Tope, Mt. Pleasant, MI, Nov. 1986-1990.
- Registered as N51HT, Feb. 1987.
- Flew as Death Rattler.
- Crashed, A/C destroyed, Ottawa, Ontario, July 1, 1990.
-- Tope killed in accident.
Gerald Beck, Wahpeton, ND, Feb. 20, 1997.
- Acquired wreckage.
Paul Ehlen, Bloomington, MN, 2002-2005.
- Registered as N51PE.
- Restored to airworthy.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
 Photo Source(s):
Caz Caswell.