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 Post subject: P-51D N6520S Chino 1971
PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 2:27 pm 
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I've got a PIC of this airplane, and the N number is pretty clear.... Can't seem to find it anywhere on the web? Thoughts?

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 3:32 pm 
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P51Mstg wrote:
I've got a PIC of this airplane, and the N number is pretty clear.... Can't seem to find it anywhere on the web? Thoughts?
Mark H


I started this dossier...
ImageAerial Visuals - Airframe Dossier - North American P-51D Mustang, c/r N6520S
...with the idea I could use the seed data to build up the history, but when I checked my usual sources (including WD5) I came up with nothing as well. So much for showing off! :?

Perhaps marked for movie work of some kind? I am currently in the process of importing NTSB data. I'll let you know if something pops up.

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If I could see the picture I might be able to help.


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 4:44 pm 
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Agree, please post the pic if you can or at least a description of the color scheme.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:39 pm 
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Mark uploaded the photo to the dossier...
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If anyone else has any photos of the machine they would like to share please feel free to upload them via the dossier link provided. You have have any details about the history of this airframe they can be easily shared using the edit tool available via the link above as well.

It is now up to the WIX brain trust to crack the case.

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N 6520 S appears to have been registered to a 1967 Cessna 150 H since it was manufactured. It is within a block of N numbers for 150 H's. It is still actively registered.

There is an NTSB report dated 4/71 listing this same C 150 in an accident.

http://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief ... 9671&key=0

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 7:54 pm 
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Ok how about this.

N 65206 44-74458 now N 351 DM

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Probably when John Marlin was rebuilding it from a wreck. According to Mustangs Mustangs he got it flying in 1973.

Now that I look at the photo again, the guy on the ladder looks like John.


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I think we have a winner! I am looking at Mark's original, or at least the one he sent me. The a link point in the chain link fence falls on what we both thought was an S. It could actually be a 6, especially when compared to the first 6. I'll update the record tomorrow when I have a few minutes and work out the history of the plane.

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If you look really close around the links in the fence its a 6.....

I sent a close up to Mike, I hope he'll post it...... Looks like Russ Blow wins, I'd have to say its a 6, I might need a new braille computer screen...........

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agree sure looks like N65206


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N65206 at Madera in 1986:

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I did not get a chance to upload Mark's zoom in on the c/r before I left for work this morning. I was able to determine it is now Sizzlin Liz...
ImageAerial Visuals - Airframe Dossier - North American TF-51D Mustang, s/n 9226, c/n 122-40998, c/r N351DM

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I just uploaded a few of my own pics which I tool at the Gathering of Legends in 2007.

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I have pictures I took of the airplane in 1974 at Compton and the major components were not assembled. I always recall the airplane coming to Compton on a flatbed as a complete airplane covered in mud from an off airport belly landing. Perhaps the paperwork from the Z and Mike Geren airplane was deemed more useful, or maybe the airplane didn't come with paperwork and other logbooks were bought from Z and Mike?
Interesting, John would know though.
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