P-40N @ Schellville flies - inc updates

[Roger Cain]

Individual

[hang the expense]

And a dang fine job at that.

[Tom Moungovan]

Was this bird rebuilt by a shop or an individual ?

That's a good question. If I'm not speaking out of turn, I'd say that it was rebuilt by a two man shop. Chris Prevost and Denny Jones did the vast majority of the work and Chris has acquired enough metal-working machinery to fabricate most anything aeronautical. That aircraft is essentially new, not just rebuilt.

[Myles]

This article was in the Sonoma County, Ca area newspaper, The Press Democrat, about Chris Prevost's P-40 restoration. The video is pretty neat.
Jim Long
Santa Rosa, Ca


http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20 ... kes_flight

[Ethan]

Was this bird rebuilt by a shop or an individual ?

That's a good question. If I'm not speaking out of turn, I'd say that it was rebuilt by a two man shop. Chris Prevost and Denny Jones did the vast majority of the work and Chris has acquired enough metal-working machinery to fabricate most anything aeronautical. That aircraft is essentially new, not just rebuilt.

well they certainly did a very nice job.

[muddyboots]

what a wonderful addition to the warbird kingdom! It's great to see you went with a nice clean paint scheme on it - we've enough teeth and eyeballs out there.

[whiteside]

Bravo Chris! You done it right.
Will Whiteside

[Tom Moungovan]

The Curtiss flew again today around 10AM, the 4th flight in the last 8 days. It spent the remainder of the day sitting alongside the red Stearman and SNJ, visible to passing traffic and attracted a number of walk-ins.

[Roger Cain]

Bravo Chris! You done it right.
Will Whiteside

Nice pass today Will, if I could have got out to the run way quicker, might have got a decent shot, instead of an exit. Sorry about the quality, you were a blip at this point.

The Curtiss flew again today around 10AM, the 4th flight in the last 8 days. It spent the remainder of the day sitting alongside the red Stearman and SNJ, visible to passing traffic and attracted a number of walk-ins.

You sure about that Tom, as I took this picture at 3:40 p.m. this afternoon.

[Lightning]

Howdy All

The fuselage of this aircraft was originally found by Ron Lee and Ian Whitney back in the late 70s at a place called Iron Range, North Queensland. By the late 90s the fuselage had been structurally restored in New Zealand before it was put up for tender.
No evidence has been found yet that suggests Ray Melikian had flown this P-40N with the 7th FS
Upon contacting Chris Prevost , Chris could not confirm that this aircraft had been flown by Ray.

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[hang the expense]

Howdy All

The fuselage of this aircraft was originally found by Ron Lee and Ian Whitney back in the late 70s at a place called Iron Range, North Queensland. By the late 90s the fuselage had been structurally restored in New Zealand before it was put up for tender.
No evidence has been found yet that suggests Ray Melikian had flown this P-40N with the 7th FS
Upon contacting Chris Prevost , Chris could not confirm that this aircraft had been flown by Ray.

It has now been confirmed by Rays log books and by Rays wing man that this is indeed the bird.Lets enjoy another Kittyhawk in the air and leave it at that shall we?

[Lightning]

Howdy Hang The Expense

Thanks for clearing this up !

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Howdy All

Thought this may be of similar interest
Ray Melikian had 3 total confirmed kills painted on his P-40K

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/P ... ikian.html

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/p ... 45981.html

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Get Em Flying !

[Lightning]

Howdy

Sorry for the bad link

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/p ... ikian.html

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Get Em flying !

[Roger Cain]

For the good stuff: http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... hp?t=28260