It went to New Zealand along witih a P-40 and Corsair.

Are you sure that wasn’t the Old Flying Machine Company’s LA-11?

Oxcart
Miss Velma is not a mystery and Marinell is not a TF-51

G-ANPK

I know!- you asked “what about a TF-51? I was just pointing out that there is already one on site and that I would rather like ‘Marinell’ to be the mystery Mustang!:)

There are 3 builds rebuilds going on in NZ that I know of, Glyns & Avspecs [both of which I saw last December when in NZ] and another in Christchurch, heres a forum link with pics.

http://rnzaf.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Airshows&action=display&thread=11415

In one of the threads it mentions a 4th but haven’t read the posts in depth so don’t know where the 4th is.

Thanks for this, DP! – I had no idea about this one! There are some incredible things going on in that part of the world. Such a shame it’s on the other side of it from here!

That’s such a shame, was hoping to see it at ‘Legends again. Could’ve been so much worse though

Here’s what Eric Brown (who flew it and all of it’s contemporaries) had to say about it “It was, in my view, the foremost warplane of it’s day; a hard hitter which outperformed anything that we had immediately available”