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Post by curtiss on Nov 30, 2018 10:19:51 GMT 12
Can anyone help with history or photo of this aircraft? This is what I know:
NZ3235
P40-N20
Coded FE-N
Assembled by No.1 Aircraft Depot, Hobsonville and BoC at Hobsonville on 03 February 1944.
To No.2 OTU, Ohakea.
Sold to J. Larsen from Rukuhia on 02 March 1948.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Nov 30, 2018 10:33:47 GMT 12
NZ3235 or NZ3253...??
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Post by curtiss on Nov 30, 2018 13:19:10 GMT 12
NZ3235- that number problem again.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Nov 30, 2018 15:59:33 GMT 12
I have been looking through logbooks that I have copied, and I have found NZ3234 with No. 21 Squadron at Ardmore, and NZ3236 at No. 2 OTU, but no NZ3235 yet.
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Post by camtech on Nov 30, 2018 17:24:44 GMT 12
Only info I have is 2OTU 11 Nov 44 to 20 Nov 44 and also 14 Apr 45 to 19 Apr 45. Would need to dig in the file to identify pilots concerned.
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Post by Brenton on Nov 30, 2018 18:36:15 GMT 12
Allan Emett flew it when with OTU2.
Log entry is: 12.7.44 .... long range cross country ( 3hrs)
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Post by curtiss on Nov 30, 2018 19:53:52 GMT 12
Thanks for the feedback - I suspect it spent all its time serving a most unglamorous life at Ohakea with 2OTU. Be nice to find a photo though.
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Post by davidd on Dec 1, 2018 9:31:55 GMT 12
Don't think we can rule out possibility that 3235 also served at the "front line" in Pacific, at Bougainville (Torokina strip) in Feb -June 1944 period, but have found no positive hard proof that it made the journey north, but to make up the number of aircraft sent to the theatre it would almost certainly have been required to fly up there by my reckoning. So everyone keep looking! Like so many of the 1944 north-bound ferry flights (as well as the south-bound ones) the squadrons did not note down the aircraft serial numbers in their records. and the SU's only occasionally.
David D
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flymac
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Post by flymac on Dec 1, 2018 15:14:45 GMT 12
Sorry no photos. But my father flew 3235 twice in March 1945 at N02 (F) OTU Ohakea.
His log book entries are as follows;
March 8th 1945 - Battle climb 15,000 ft, 1.00
March 10th 1945 - Fours formation. Turns, weaving, scissoring. .50
I trust that helps.
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Post by curtiss on Dec 3, 2018 13:07:15 GMT 12
Thanks to everyone for their comments- most appreciated.
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