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Re: P-40E N940AK

Posted by Sammy on Mon Oct 28, 2002 03:58:26 PM

In reply top P-40E N940AK posted by Scott WRG Editor on Mon Oct 28, 2002 12:42:20 PM


5/11/95 crashed Phelps, NY - Bill Anderson: owner/pilot

wreckage sold to John Giljam / Hilltop Welding circa 1995

lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court for the County of Livingstone: Case 187-1996 (Anderson tried unsuccessfully to get P-40 back from Giljam)

Nov 27, 1995: Giljam sold P-40 to Dick Thurman/Vintage Warbird Museum Inc. - plane into storage in Florida.

June 2000: P-40 wings moved to Pioneer Avspecs, New Zealand to start rebuild.

March 2001: P-40 AK940 sold to Tony Banta, Banta Aviation Corporation.

March 2001: fueslage, tail, etc... sent to New Zealand for rebuild.

March 24, 2002: first flight (in New Zealand)

May 2002: P-40 returned to California; now based Livermore, CA (KLVK)

Next months Air Classics will have a full article on the restoration.









: Does anybody know the history of this aircraft from 1991-2
: 001? I know it was involved in an accident. I need owner s
: hip information for this time period.
:
: Scott WRG Editor

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