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    Airframe Family: Curtiss 81/P-40 Tomahawk / 87/P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk
    Latest Model:TP-40N Warhawk
    Last Military Serial:44-7084 USAAF
    Construction Number:32824
    Last Civil Registration:N999CD
    Compressed ID:Curtiss TP-40N sn 44-7084 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pond Warbirds Llc, Reno, NV

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-40N-30-CU by Curtiss at Buffalo, NY.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-7084.

    Circa 1944

    Converted to a TP-40N.

    Circa 1945

    Transferred to US Aircraft Section, Air Materiel Command, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN.
    Set aside for proposed USAAF aviation museum.

    May 1946

    Ferry flight. Delivered to 803rd Special Depot, Orchard Place Airport, Park Ridge, IL.
    Parked in aircraft storage area.

    To Smithsonian-National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.
    Aircraft remained stored at Park Ridge, IL.
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    From 1961 to 1965

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    From 1965 to 1978

    To Charles P. Doyle, Rosemount, MN.

    1978

    Assigned civil registration: N999CD

    From 1980 to 1997

    To Planes of Fame East/Robert J. Pond, Eden Prairie, MN.
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    Circa 1980


    Photographer: Dick Phillips Warbird Images Col.

    June 1980


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Lewis University Airport, Romeoville, IL

    June 1980


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Lewis University Airport, Romeoville, IL

    14 March 1982


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In TIX.

    From 1 January 1997 to 2003

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Palm Springs, CA keeping c/r N999CD.

    Based at Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, CA.
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    Markings Applied: Miss Josephine, 47084

    17 February 2000

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX999CD (P-40N, 44-7084) issued.

    March 2000

    Transported by ship.
    Temporarily moved to Hawaii.

    January 2001


    Photographer: Ross Henniger

    3 July 2001

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Saint Cloud, MN keeping c/r N999CD.

    Markings Applied: 306
    Painted in a USAAC colour scheme.

    Used for the filming of the movie Pearl Harbor.

    Transported by ship.
    Returned to California.

    22 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Palm Springs Air Museum, CA, USA.

    17 May 2018

    To Pond Warbirds Llc, Reno, NV keeping c/r N999CD.


    Photographer: Dick Phillips Warbird Images Col.
    Notes: Photographed at the Space Coast Regional Airport (TIX), FL.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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