Don’t know what happened to their LA-9? Might be in storage somewhere? And one of their engineers itimated to me that they have another Hurricane somewhere, but it could’ve been a wind-up
My records show that this P-40F is 41-19841 / VH-PIV. But I site here ready to be corrected.
You’re right, Foxwell!- It’s in the colours of a 78th Fighter Group aircraft based near Naples during February of 1944. (And I knew all that without looking at the current issue of Aeroplane at all!)
The first person on the mainland from Europe was an Italian with the Englicised name of John Cabot, who went over from Bristol, I believe-but there is some debate anout whether the Vikings got there first PS , would LOVE to get to Chino one day