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    Airframe Family: North American A-36 / P-51/F-51 Mustang / P-48 Enforcer
    Latest Model:XP-51 Mustang
    Last Military Serial:41-0038 USAAF
    Construction Number:73-3101
    Last Civil Registration:N51NA
    Compressed ID:NA XP-51 sn 41-0038 USAAF cn 73-310...
    Latest Owner or Location:EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a XP-51.

    Assigned s/n AG348 with the Royal Air Force for administrative purposes. It did not serve with this service.

    Circa 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-0038.

    20 May 1941

    First flight.

    28 December 1941

    Transferred to NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, VA.

    2 November 1942

    Transferred to Wright Field, OH.

    14 December 1942

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

    Assigned to NASM, Park Ridge, IL for storage.

    11 January 1944

    To NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, VA.

    25 July 1945

    Ferry flight. Delivered 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.

    1949

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Smithsonian, National Air Museum, Washington, DC.
    Stored Park Ridge, IL.

    From Circa 1949 to Circa 1975

    To Smithsonian, National Air Museum, Silver Hill, MD.

    1975

    To EAA Aviation Foundation, Oshkosh, WI with new c/r N51NA.

    In the inventory of EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
    View the Location Dossier

    1975

    Transported by ground.
    To Ft. Collins, CO, for restoration.

    1976

    First post-restoration Flight.

    Circa July 1976

    Ferry flight.
    Delivered to Oshkosh.

    July 1978


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Oshkosh.

    July 1978


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Oshkosh.

    6 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: The Experimental Aircraft Association displayed their XP-51 at the Confederate Air Force 1978 Airshow at Harlingen, Texas.

    2 November 1979

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX51NA (XP-51, 41-038) issued.

    2 August 1982

    Last flight.

    2 August 1982

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    Circa 2 August 1982

    Withdrawn from use.
    After last flight at Oshkosh.

    From Circa 1982 to Circa 2022

    To EAA Airventure Museum, Oshkosh, WI.

    20 July 1983

    To EAA Aviation Foundation Inc, Oshkosh, WI with new c/r N51NA.

    1 January 2002

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX51NA (XP-51, 41-038) issued.

    In the inventory of EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
    View the Location Dossier

    25 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    25 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    21 January 2012


    Photographer: John Meneely
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    John Meneely
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