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PostPosted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 4:43 pm 
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First post-restoration flight of Mustang OO-PSI on 17 March:

https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/m ... rst-flight


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PostPosted: Sun Mar 19, 2023 7:11 pm 
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Hopefully, the registration doesn't portend anything awry. :?

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As most should know, the aircraft's actual multi-year, ground-up restoration, to a very high state of authenticity, was performed in the US when owned by Bob Baker. Since arriving in Belgium, some refurbishment was done, updates were made to the cockpit (addition of some more original WWII-era components that hadn't been fitted previously when restored), and its engine was overhauled by Vintage V-12s. Its registration of course is the closest possible to having it read/look like "P51". It will be fantastic seeing this example flying in Europe. The owner has expressed the desire/goal of bringing it to the Pardubice Airshow in May.


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kalamazookid wrote:
Hopefully, the registration doesn't portend anything awry. :?

:D Fingers crossed!


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Is it a two seater or will it get the armor plate behind the pilot?


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Hooligan2 wrote:
kalamazookid wrote:
Hopefully, the registration doesn't portend anything awry. :?

:D Fingers crossed!

Oostwold, The Netherlands, based 'darn Yankee' (44-74425) has the Dutch equivalent of that registration: PH-PSI, and has flown without incident like this for some time. No guarantee of course (and the Dutch version doesn't read the same obviously...)

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