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    Airframe Family: Curtiss 81/P-40 Tomahawk / 87/P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk
    Latest Model:P-40N Warhawk
    Last Military Serial:43-24362 USAAF
    Construction Number:32301
    Compressed ID:Curtiss P-40N sn 43-24362 USAAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation, Sioux Gateway Airport, Sioux City, Iowa

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    Dates

    Event

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

    Circa 1943

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 43-24362.

    24 March 1945

    Destroyed in a crash.
    Mid Air collision with P40, 44-7305 SW of Old Town, Florida.

    1986

    Recovered.
    Recoveries of both aircraft from the Florida Everglades - and took nearly two years to excavate and remove from a very remote part of the Everglades. Both aircraft had to be disassembled and moved out by small boat, component by component.

    10 April 1991


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: Recovered wreckage displayed at Lakeland, Florida

    16 March 1993


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: I took these at the Flying Tigers Warbird Museum at Kissimmee Airport, Kissimmee Florida

    16 March 1993


    Photographer: Robert Abbott
    Notes: I took these at the Flying Tigers Warbird Museum at Kissimmee Airport, Kissimmee Florida

    To Florida Air Museum, Lakeland Municipal Airport, Lakeland, FL.
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    Based at Glenn H. Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, NY.
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    Restoration started.
    To become static display.

    To Mid America Museum of Aviation and Transportation, Sioux Gateway Airport, Sioux City, IA.
    Survives here as a wreck.
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    11 July 2018


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Currently being restored for static display at the Glenn Curtis Museum of Aviation, Hammondsport, NY.
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