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Re: Soplata List Updated

Posted by Jacques on Tue Dec 09, 2003 03:37:40 PM

In reply top Re: Soplata List Updated posted by Steve T on Tue Dec 09, 2003 02:31:10 PM

: Hi Jacques--
:
: : IIRC there was also a P-51K Mustang, that I don't see on
: y
: : our list. Would you know what happened to her?
:
: That would be N69X, which I have seen referred to various
: ly as a P-51K and a P-51D (of course the propeller was the
: main difference anyway). Walt got it from a scrapyard aft
: er it had met with some sort of accident; I believe the ou
: ter wings were missing by that time. The WW Directory says
: N69X passed to Brian O'Farrell at Hialeah FL (he's the gu
: y who recovered most of the Dominican AF F-51Ds circa 1984
: ). I did not see any sign of a P-51 when I visited Walt's,
: and think N69X was already gone by then (1982). He seems
: to have had the Mustang only a few years. I don't remember
: the serial off the top of my head but it's in the WW Dire
: ctory and probably also on the Registry...
:
: S.

Thanks for your input Steve.

The ship was listed as a P-51K in a book entitled 'Museum and Display Aircraft of the United States' published in 1976. See link below that you certainly already know.

Thanks again,

Jacques

Walter Soplata's Junkyard

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