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    Airframe Family: Curtiss 81/P-40 Tomahawk / 87/P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk
    Latest Model:Kittyhawk IA
    Last Military Serial:1025 Russian AF
    Construction Number:19760
    Last Civil Registration:N1941P
    Compressed ID:Curtiss Kittyhawk IA sn 1025 Russia...
    Latest Owner or Location:Training Services Inc, Virginia Beach, VA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-40E-1.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-35927.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ET573 as a Kittyhawk IA.

    New serial number assigned: 4181M RAF

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Russia Air Force with s/n 1025.

    Crashed near Murmansk, Russia.

    1992

    Recovered.

    Placed in storage at Switzerland.

    From By 1992 to By 1994

    To Brooks Aviation/Tom Wilson, Douglas, GA.

    By 1996

    To The Curtiss Hawk Factory/Tom Wilson, Griffin, GA.

    From By 1999 to By 2000

    Restoration started.
    Work was resumed on the project using wings recovered from a farm near Calgary, Alberta.

    From By 2000 to By 2002

    To Training Services Inc/Tidewater Technical School/Gerald Yagen, Suffolk, VA.

    November 2000

    Transported by ship.
    Transferred to New Zealand.

    8 March 2001

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX1941P (P-40E, 1025) issued.

    Restoration completed.
    Markings Applied: 108
    Work continued at Auckland-Ardmore.

    4 April 2003

    To Training Services Inc, Virginia Beach, VA with new c/r N1941P.

    4 April 2003

    To The Fighter Factory/Training Services Inc/Gerald Yagen, Virginia Beach, VA keeping c/r N1941P.

    14 April 2003

    First flight.

    May 2003

    Transported by ship.
    Moved from New Zealand to the United States.

    1 August 2003

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX1941P (P-40E, 1025) issued.

    Circa 2004


    Photographer: Dave McDonald
    Notes: Photographed at the Classic Fighters Air Show, NZ.

    Circa 2004


    Photographer: Dave McDonald

    July 2005


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At Oshkosh

    12 July 2008


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    10 January 2011

    Civil registration revised, NX1941P (P-40E, 1025), indicating ownership by Training Services Inc, Virginia Beach, VA.
    Civil registration reserved.

    Based at Military Aviation Museum and Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach Airport, Virginia Beach, VA.
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    19 May 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX1941P (P-40E, 1025) issued.

    10 July 2013

    To Gerald W. Yagen, Virginia Beach, VA keeping c/r N1941P.

    15 December 2018

    To Training Services Inc, Virginia Beach, VA keeping c/r N1941P.

    25 June 2022


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: at Hamilton International Airport (YHM) during CWHM Flyfest 2022
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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