Beijing Aeronautical Institute Museum P47

[Shay]

I'm not so sure it's a "N" model. Ithinks it's some variant of the "D"model

look at the wing tip



In this picture you can see that the N's wing tips are squared off. This is just an obvious difference.

For info on the difference between Thunderbolt models:

http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/p47.html



Shay
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[Taylor Stevenson]

Hmmm you're right... I was looking at the tail, but at a second look it isnt an N... good look!

[mennie]

I've found a pic here where it has different colours and a different canopy, maybe there is a clue: http://www.johnweeks.com/p61/p61beijing.html


edit:
It's in the registry but no serial: http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p47regis ... 96808.html
Construction #:
499-6808

Last edited by mennie on Mon May 14, 2007 3:45 am, edited 1 time in total.

[mennie]

Here it is in its previous paint scheme:
[url=http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0565081/L/]
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0565081/L/[/url]
The yellow is still visible on the new pics.

They have a P-51D there too.
And a La-11 and Yak-11.

[Swiss Mustangs]

another pic without checkers on the nose....



Martin