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    Airframe Family: Curtiss 75 / P-36 Mohawk
    Latest Model:P-36C Hawk
    Last Military Serial:38-0210 USAAF
    Construction Number:12624
    Last Civil Registration:G-CIXJ
    Compressed ID:Curtiss P-36C sn 38-0210 USAAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Patina Ltd (The Fighter Collection) Source

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    Dates

    Event

    1939

    Constructed as a P-36C.
    Ordered as a P-36A but delivered as a P-36C.

    May 1939

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 38-0210.

    May 1939

    Transferred to Selfridge Field, MI.

    September 1939

    Participated in the Cleveland Air Races with experimental camouflage.

    Circa September 1939

    Participated in the War Games at Maxwell Field following the Air Races.

    1940

    Transferred to Wright Patterson.
    Sent to Dayton for testing.

    Served with several different squadrons on the U.S. East Coast.

    April 1941

    Damaged.
    Category 3.

    April 1942

    Damaged.
    Category 3.

    1942

    Transferred to Chanute Technical Training Command.

    Designated obsolete.

    Ferry flight.
    Flown to Buckley Field, Colorado.

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Army Air Force.

    Sent to a technical school.

    Acquired by a Pratt and Whitney tech instructor from Canada.

    By 1998

    Acquired by a collector in Florida.

    31 July 1998

    Civil registration N80FR {2} reserved.
    Reserved by Fighter Rebuilders Llc C/O Steve Hinton, Chino, CA.

    To The Fighter Collection, Duxford Airport, Duxford, Cambridgeshire/Cambs, England.
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    Original parts capable of overhaul were collected to ensure the aircraft could be completely restored to flying condition.

    From 2011 to 2015

    Restored.
    The work was carried out under the leadership of Matt Nightingale at Chino, CA. Finished in 27th Pursuit Squadron markings.

    2015

    First post-restoration Flight.
    Flown by Steve Hinton.

    3 May 2015


    Photographer: Frank Dieterich
    Notes: Curtis P-36A 38-0210 NX80FR Hawk Planes of Fame - Chino Airport

    3 May 2015


    Photographer: Frank Dieterich
    Notes: Curtis P-36A 38-0210 NX80FR Hawk Planes of Fame - Chino Airport

    10 February 2016

    To Patina Ltd (The Fighter Collection) Source with new c/r G-CIXJ.

    8 July 2017


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Duxford
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