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There is no connection between any airframe that was a Cavalier-built warplane and any previous USAAF or North American Aviation identity. This is not because it was not a priority or because nobody did the legwork to compile the data. It is because there is no connection at all between "heritage" identities and the new identities.
Cavalier bought surplus Mustang airframes, took them to Sarasota, then completely broke the airframes down into parts stock. They stripped the parts, cleaned them, then primed them and put them into a warehouse to be used for new airframe build-up. When Cavalier (and when I say "Cavalier", I mean it as a blanket term covering the three companies that built "Cavalier Mustangs" -- Trans-Florida Aviation, Cavalier Aircraft Corporation, and Field Services, Inc. ) built up F-51Ds, Mustang IIs, and TF-51Ds they built them up from parts stock without regard to keeping parts together from the same airframe. They took out the best parts they had, supplemented them with new-build or new-old stock NAA parts, and constructed a new airplane. That means the tail cone, doghouse, cockpit, left wing, and right wing might all have originated on different aircraft. They might have even come off an Aussie-built CAC Mustang. Nobody knows, though, since the paint stripping process destroyed the phenolic plastic ID tags that NAA used on components. The USAAF and NAA ID tags that were up in the cockpit were many times stripped from the airframes before they were even sold at disposal. Ones that weren't were taken off when Cavalier put the parts into storage.
The new 67-XXXXX, 68-XXXXX, and 72-XXXX USAF serial numbers were assigned because the USAF considered them all new aircraft (NOT because the previous USAAF serial numbers had been struck from the record, as is popularly published). Also, there was no such thing as a "Cavalier Construction Number." Aircraft built for USAF Military Assistance Program programs (Peace Condor, Peace Hawk, etc) were identified by their USAF serial numbers only. Other airframes that did not have new USAF numbers (like the El Salvador birds) were identified by their air-force's assigned identities.
Again, there is no tie between any USAAF or NAA identity and the new USAF serial number identities of Cavalier F-51Ds, Mustang IIs, or TF-51Ds. If you read somewhere that there IS a connection between a new SN and an old SN, this is the product of someone's imagination or fudged paperwork somewhere along the line. There are exceptions, of course, like N851D#1 and Ed Lindsay's NL51DL, which was the corporate demonstrator, but nothing with a 67, 68, or 72 ID number has a tie-in to a 44- or 45- number.
When talking about civil Mustangs that Cavalier built...well, that's a different story. These airplanes retained USAAF IDs because the FAA required them to.
Is there a complete list? Not exactly. There are relatively complete lists that have been published in books, magazines, and the 'net. Iinformation that has been published by Coggan and is available on the internet is mostly correct (80% maybe), but incomplete. Even what I have compiled personally for my book on Cavalier Mustangs isn't necessarily complete or totally correct, but every time I run across a piece of evidence that fits a new piece of the puzzle I update it. I'm hoping to publish a definitive list in my book within the next year or two.
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