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Re: Cavalier Mustangs

Posted by Randy Haskin on Sat Dec 27, 2003 09:31:44 PM

In reply top Re: Cavalier Mustangs posted by Yak11Fan on Sat Dec 27, 2003 09:06:01 PM

The company was disbanded in '71.

The P-51 maintenance business was handed over to Field Services, Inc, which was started by ex-Cavalier employees. Not sure what happened to that company.

The Cavalier engine shop employees formed the basis of what would later become Universal Airmotive.

The airframes and spare parts were sold off through Gordon Plaskett out in California.

David Lindsay's other company, Lindair Inc, still "owns" the identities of a number of P-51s, but chances are that those airframes do not exist anymore because they were parted out to make other Cavalier aircraft.

There are still two Cavaliers out there in existence. N51DL, the Cavalier Mustang II prototype and corporate demonstrator is still flown by David Lindsay's son Ed. As far as I know, it is the only Cavalier Mustang II that has not been re-converted back to "stock" wartime configuration. N201PE, the prototype Cavalier (Piper) PE-1 Enforcer, is still around, although it is in storage and nowhere near flyable.

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