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Re: P-61C 43-8363 N4905V
Posted by don on Wed Feb 19, 2003 02:14:19 PM
In reply top P-61C 43-8363 N4905V posted by Joe Scheil on Wed Feb 19, 2003 01:29:23 PM
Northrop Aeronautical Institute (an aviation educational institution, a part of Northrop Aircraft Co.) purchased a surplus P-61C-1-NO (serial number 43-8349) in late 1947. It was operated in the airframe and engine maintenance training program of the school. In 1963, Northrop sold the school, and many of its planes were offered for sale. The Bob Bean Aircraft company thought that they could make the P-61C airworthy, and obtained the civilian registration number N4905V for the craft. However, upon closer examination they found that the Black Widow was so full of corrosion that it was not worth fixing. N4905V was scrapped in 1955. J Baugher site.
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p61_10.html
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: Stumbled on this registration for a P-61C issued in the 19
: 50's at Hawthorne, but have no record of it...does anyone
: know of any more Phantom P-61's of any type? I did not kn
: ow a "C" had ever been registered.