F-AZJJ has been up for sale since late 2003, ditto for the F8F – and the crashed example = F-AZFI (went down 1998) was the one in French AF colors – a sad loss and within weeks of the loss of another former French P-51D, “Temptation”, F-AZJM, which crashed in the Swiss mountains shortly after being imported and registered HB-RCW.

F-AZSB is owned by Jean-Claude Beaudet and is the original yellow ship of late Bob Hoover, N2251D.

Martin

It’s a BMW-801 engined ship – therefore I’d say a late A-model (A-8 or A-9)

Martin

It is a drab painted machine, as is the turreted machine in the distance. So is this at a point in the war when a machine that had been forced down in Europe could actually be repatriated?

Good thought

We had one aircraft (B-17G) of this unit that landed in Switzerland on 20 July 1944 – it was ferried back to BAD-1 Burtonwood after repairs on 25 September 1945… I will have to check my photos, maybe……..

Martin

Toooooo slow. Ya snooze, ya lose! :p 😀

one can’t always win – :p

Strathdon

Stored in the area is N15750 Beech D18S cockpit

Martin

Hi Dave,

I’m away from my references at the moment, can you enlighten me on what happened to this one. Is it a survivor?

IIRC it was with PoF and then sold to a private for rebuild to original condition.

Martin

okay – another one in the same serial range –

Martin