Where are they now? #2

Jeff H · **Joined:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:33 pm **Posts:** 140

Excellent response to #1, now lets see what we know about this bird.

Cheers,

Jeff

51fixer · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:46 am

IIRC Crashed near State College PA while flying formation in IMC March 98. A/C remains didn't fill a pickup truck.
A/C was Bill Clark's P-51D-30-NT, N51WB. Bill Clark died in the crash.

Jeff H · **Joined:** Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:33 pm **Posts:** 140

Yep, Bill Clark was the owner/pilot when this aircraft crashed, I have the accident dat as 07 March1988.

Photo was taken in June 1979.

Cheers,

Jeff :spit

P51Mstg · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:36 am **Posts:** 1202

Crashed in 1988 right after takeoff from State College. Was headed to Sun n Fun with Bob Byrne.... They got seperated after take off, Bob lost him and headed to FL, found out when he got there that Bill had run into a mountain. Seems like the data plate got rebuilt into another Mustang.

Mark H

Ztex · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:41 pm

This photo is supposedly of that bird...at the Australian Test Site...

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/009830.html

Speedy · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 4:11 pm

Ztex wrote:

This photo is supposedly of that bird...at the Australian Test Site...

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/009830.html

N51WB...isn't that the Whittington/Levitz/Sanders Mustang that was "Kangaroo" and now flies as "Jeannie Too"?

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:45 pm

P51Mstg wrote:

Crashed in 1988 right after takeoff from State College. Was headed to Sun n Fun with Bob Byrne.... They got seperated after take off, Bob lost him and headed to FL, found out when he got there that Bill had run into a mountain. Seems like the data plate got rebuilt into another Mustang.

Mark H

I think Bill and Bob were on their way to TICO first, then Sun N Fun. We were at the VAC show at Tico when we heard the news.
We lost a good one that day.

Jerry

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:36 pm

From the Col. on Bill Clark's accident:

Hey Jerry,

Yes Bob and Bill were on there way to VAC show I was sitting in the Air Ops when Bob called for his turn for final and he had ask if Bill was there yet. At that time no one knew he had crashed we didn't find out till maybe about an hour later.

Feel free to post this if you want

Cheers
Rob

T J Johansen · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:47 am

Clark's 51 was N51WE, not N51WB.

T J

51fixer · **Posted:** Wed Jan 25, 2012 7:36 am

T J Johansen wrote:

Clark's 51 was N51WE, not N51WB.

T J

Guess I shouldn't just copy and paste from one source.

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