Old/Bad Photos - Ain't Misbehavin'

[CWBuff]

Here's a shot of Bob Ferguson's Stang that my Dad took at Geneseo back in the mid 80s. It's a bad scan of a scrap print... I'll have to maybe drag out the negative and have a go with that someday. But until then, this'll do just fine me thinks...

Anyhoo, does anyone have recent information concerning this ship? The registry stops at 2002, so I'm curious as to this P-51's history over the last few years.




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[Jerry O'Neill]

I'm not so sure that that isn't Jack Shaver flying the Mustang. I thought Bob Ferguson's was a similar paint scheme only the red on the nose was blue.
Anybody help out there?
Jerry

[CWBuff]

D'oH... looking at the codes, you might be right...

Now, the registry says that it changed hands from Shaver to Ferguson in the late 70s. This photo was definitely taken in the early-mid 80s. I was only a kid then, so any info about this would be appreciated. Was it maybe a case of a long-delayed repaint?

Anyhoo, I remember seeing this bird and really liking the paint scheme (even if it was somewhat fanciful) and being disappointed when it showed up one year in blue.


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[Jerry O'Neill]

Jack & Bob used to fly a lot together in the Northeast. I have photos in about 1981 of both aircraft together. I think the red nosed one, at that time, was called "Miss Kit Kat", but I'm not 100% sure. Jack did fly other peoples Mustangs on occassion. I can't seem to get on-line into MustangsMustangs.com to start a search at te moment.
Jerry

[wls3]

Here is a photo I took at Mustangs and Legends in Kissimmee back in 1999 of Ain't Misbehavin.
The name under the canopy reads CDR Bob Ferguson USN.
Paint is black. I'd bet his middle initail to be L?


Bill

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[Glenn Wegman]

It went from Shaver to Ferguson and then Ferguson sold it to Bill McGrath who moved it from Cape Cod to Nantucket and kept it about 5 years. Bill McGrath sold it about six weeks ago and I went and picked it up and flew it from Nantucket to Florida for the new owner. It will eventually be based in Alabama.

I have lunch with Jack Shaver nearly every Friday.......what a great guy and a great pilot!

Glenn

[AIRIC]

Man, that photo brings back some great memories. This P-51 was a regular at the old CWH shows at Hamilton. Lots of good flying and fun. Here are a few more, all from the CWH Hamilton days. Steve T will remember these well.

Miss Kat Brat back in the late 70s.




Aint Misbehavin




Happy Landings,

Eric

[T J Johansen]

It looks as though several 51s wore this scheme with owners on the east coast. N988C was both red and blue over the years, while the black one is N12066 which went to Charles Church (in those colors). John Watson had N51WT in the same scheme, but yellow (I think).

T J

[AIRIC]

Miss Suzanne

Eric

[Jerry O'Neill]

I Think Bob Byrne's "Rascel" had a similar paaint scheme too!
Jerry

[Swiss Mustangs]

[C170BDan]

This machine has worn quite a few paint schemes! Makes me wonder which Mustang has worn the most unique/different paint schemes?

[AIRIC]

I Think Bob Byrne's "Rascel" had a similar paaint scheme too!
Jerry

I forgot about Byrne's Rascal



Eric

[Glenn Wegman]

And here's the current paint scheme on N688C (now N51KB)...........



I've got another one in the hangar that is painted in the identical scheme as "Aint Misbehavin" when it was blue. Shaver walked in and said " hey, they stole my paint scheme". I'll get the cowling back on it tomorrow and post an imge of it.

[N3Njeff]

Eric, that pic of "rascal" getting airborne. Is that the Avro that went off the runway at Hamilton????? I was there that weekend and I remember it sitting there. We flew up in a company charter of a AirNorth Short 330.