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Post by ZacYates on Aug 24, 2020 15:04:23 GMT 12
Hi all, I've stumbled across (even though I think it's been listed for a few months) another fighter for sale with RNZAF provenance, this time being Mustang NZ2406: www.platinumfighters.com/p-51dn5551d |
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Post by McFly on Aug 24, 2020 15:18:16 GMT 12
Hi all, I've stumbled across (even though I think it's been listed for a few months) another fighter for sale with RNZAF provenance, this time being Mustang NZ2406: www.platinumfighters.com/p-51dn5551dThis one...  
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Post by ZacYates on Aug 24, 2020 15:37:14 GMT 12
Top shot! I just looked and I got that same photo from the AFMNZ site.
I just saw the For Sale listing and started thinking/daydreaming how cool a TAFtang Trio routine would be at a future Kiwi airshow...!
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 24, 2020 17:45:56 GMT 12
Little Rebel has been for sale for ages. I am sure it has been mentioned here too. It looks really nice, as does Sweet And Lovely, his other one also for sale. It'd be a same to break them up. And it looks a lot nicer now than it did in RNZAF service.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Aug 24, 2020 18:04:57 GMT 12
Ooooooh...! Wash your mouth out Dave  |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 24, 2020 18:07:20 GMT 12
Nope. RNZAF Mustangs were rather dull compared with wartime examples imho.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Aug 24, 2020 19:36:38 GMT 12
Not IMHO!
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Post by skyhawkdon on Aug 25, 2020 12:41:11 GMT 12
A sign of the tough economic times with so many warbirds and collections coming on the market.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 25, 2020 13:04:13 GMT 12
Indeed Don, although Little Rebel went on the market well before the world crisis.
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Post by shorty on Aug 25, 2020 18:01:09 GMT 12
Notice that every restored P-51 sports an individual name as opposed to wartime ones where names were far less prevalent
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Post by Brett on Feb 6, 2022 10:19:40 GMT 12
Apparently now sold to a German collection.
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Post by ZacYates on Feb 7, 2022 17:08:55 GMT 12
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Post by McFly on Feb 7, 2022 17:52:24 GMT 12
Via Google Translate..  "The latest issue of the German magazine Klassiker der Luftfahrt, dated February 2022, reports the imminent arrival of the North American P-51D Mustang 45-11495 registered N5551D on behalf of the German collection Tina Fly GmbH based in Bremgarten in Germany.
This Mustang built in 1945 served with the Royal New Zealand Air Force with registration number NZ2406. Withdrawn from service in the late 1950s, it was scrapped but a few parts were retained.
We finally find his trace in the early 2000s with the English Philip Warner who began the beginning of the restoration, the project being acquired some time later by the American collector Bob Baker. The new first flight was performed in 2009.
The colors represent the Mustang aircraft flown by Charles C. "Buck" Pattillo of the Bodney-based 486th Fighter Squadron in 1945.
Sold by the specialist warbird broker Platinum Fighter Sales at the end of 2021, this P-51D will be the eighth model to be based in Germany." |
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Feb 7, 2022 20:37:45 GMT 12
Was NZ2406 Canterbury TAF?
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Post by Antonio on Feb 7, 2022 22:42:29 GMT 12
Was NZ2406 Canterbury TAF? From adf: Delivered from Whenuapai to CFS, Wigram on 21 August 1951 by Flt. Lt. T. Rabone. To No.14 Squadron, Ohakea on 02 July 1952 for drogue towing and specialist weapons courses. With No.2 (Wellington) TAF Squadron 22 June 1953-25 November 1955. |
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