The worst I’ve personally done is identified a N3N as an N2S. I once witnessed a gentleman point to a T-28C, tail hook and all, and explain that it was a P-51.

That would be the P-47N under restoration to fly again after the fire. You can find some photos of the restoration from an unspecified date last year, here. I seem to recall they had a little bit of luck, having a spare right P-47N wing in storage.

I’m fairly certain the Bearcat is heading across the pond to an owner in Southern California.

To convert a PB4Y to B-24 condtion, besides the obvious tail modifications, you would have to replace the engines and shorten the fuselage.

According to “Double Menace: P/F-82 Twin Mustang” by David R. McLaren the reasons for switching to the Allision were economics and politics. The plants in the US producing the Merlin had closed after the end of the war, so any Merlins would have to be sourced from England. For what its worth, with the exception of the XP-82A all of the P-82s prior to the E model had the Merlin. There were 23 Merlin powered P-82s and 259 Allison powered P-82s.

I would like to see books on the following aircraft:

Vultee BT-13/15
Yak-18
Yak-52
Nanchang CJ-6

My favorite is the Naval Aircraft Factory N3N

I wonder if that lineup of Constellations was all CG, or if they duplicated shots of the one they did use. For the filming of ‘Aviator’ the Airline History Museum’s L-1049 Super G N6937C ‘Star of America’ was used.