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Post by Brett on Jan 21, 2019 9:36:48 GMT 12
Pioneer Aero Ltd have announced that this P-40, which they have had in storage for some time, has joined the restoration queue.
It has been acquired by an "Auckland based businessman", which hopefully means it will stay in NZ.
Work will start later this year, presumably once the P-39 has moved out and everything shuffles up one place in the restoration process.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Jan 21, 2019 9:55:57 GMT 12
Brilliant news!!
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Post by joey05 on Jan 21, 2019 10:33:29 GMT 12
Made my day
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 21, 2019 10:34:44 GMT 12
Better still, I have it on good authority that this P-40 will be restored to stock RNZAF condition as it was, complete with RNZAF markings.
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Post by Gavin Conroy on Jan 21, 2019 11:22:59 GMT 12
Yip complete with RNZAF markings and yes it will be based at Ardmore.
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Post by planecrazy on Jan 21, 2019 11:47:15 GMT 12
Great news now all we need to do is get that Corsair in RNZAF markings?
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Jan 21, 2019 11:53:25 GMT 12
...and NZ3009
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Post by ErrolC on Jan 21, 2019 12:05:42 GMT 12
How about to focus our hopes on getting those two actually active as a first step, then worry about what they look like?
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Jan 21, 2019 12:17:37 GMT 12
Not serious remarks Errol. Would be more than happy to see them at least active again. This project is great news!
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Post by baz62 on Jan 21, 2019 15:34:43 GMT 12
Great news to see another RNZAF P40 to return to the skies and with an interesting history although shooting(accidently) at your CO is probably not good for ones career but certainly adds to the aircraft's history! Pioneer are certainly putting a lot of high class P40s out there and I understand they have restored about a third of the currently flying P40s in the world with more to come.
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Post by ZacYates on Jan 21, 2019 16:49:28 GMT 12
Wonderful, just wonderful news! Made up for some pretty negative news I received earlier so this is just brilliant!
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Post by FlyingKiwi on Jan 21, 2019 18:53:34 GMT 12
Fantastic news, and when I read the Facebook post I was hoping it would be restored as it was in the RNZAF so that's great to hear too.
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Post by kiwi285 on Jan 30, 2019 16:00:10 GMT 12
Yes we seem to be slowly growing the Warbirds group. Pity that some of those already here are under a cloud and ground bound.
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Post by Peter Lewis on May 5, 2019 21:37:21 GMT 12
This P-40 was last logged as "Sold to J. Larsen from Rukuhia on 02 March 1948."
Any idea where it has spent the intervening years?
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