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    Airframe Family: Curtiss 81/P-40 Tomahawk / 87/P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk
    Latest Model:P-40F Warhawk
    Last Military Serial:41-19841 USAAC
    Construction Number:19503
    Last Civil Registration:G-CGZP
    Compressed ID:Curtiss P-40F sn 41-19841 USAAC cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Patina Ltd, Jersey

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-40F by Curtiss at Buffalo, NY.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Corps with s/n 41-19841.

    From Circa 1941 to Circa 1945

    Abandoned on Espiritu Santo Island.

    Recovered.
    Retrieved by The Fighter Collection, but stored in Australia.

    19 October 2010

    To Murray Griffiths, Glenrowan, VIC with new c/r VH-PIV.

    Civil registration revised.
    Registration holder deceased.

    Based at The Fighter Collection, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    By 2011

    Markings Applied: Lees Hope, X-17
    Scheme of Lees Hope from the 85th Fighter Squadron, 79th Fighter Group, which was flown by Lt Robert J Duffield from Capodichino airfield, southern Italy in early 1944.

    10 July 2011


    Photographer: Arjun Sarup
    Notes: On display at the Flying Legends 2011 Airshow.

    27 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Being worked on at Imperial War Museum, Duxford

    27 September 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Being worked on at Imperial War Museum, Duxford

    3 November 2011

    Civil registration, VH-PIV, cancelled.

    24 November 2011

    To Patina Ltd, Jersey with new c/r G-CGZP.

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Joop de Groot
    Notes: 2014 photo at Duxford Flying Legends

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Duxford Autumn Airshow

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    13 September 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    7 September 2019


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: at Melun Villaroche.
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     AMCAR
    Australian Government, Civil Aviation Safety Authority
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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