Warbird Information Exchange

From the Dakota Territory Air Museum:

We have a P-40 static display project that we are looking to take offers on. If you are interested and would like further details or more photos of the airplane, please message the museum on Facebook, email the museum at airmuseum@minot.com, or give us a call at 701-852-8500 and please leave a message if no one is there to answer.


https://www.facebook.com/DTAMMinotND

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Is this the old Granger Taylor airframe?

If so, interesting but sad tale involving this aircraft and its previous owner.

T J

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I don't think it's the Granger Taylor plane, unless it was incorporated into this one - The Taylor plane had a real P-40 lower cowl and this one's cowl looks like it's from an Avro York or Lancaster? More about the Taylor plane here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110723093 ... taylor.htm

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Whatever the price of scrap aluminum should determine the selling price!

Whatever the price of scrap aluminum should determine the selling price!

Photos of Diemerts P-40 on this Flickr page at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@N02/6181310019
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@N02/3457406492
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@N02/3456589029

https://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@N02/3457406078





Aslo a Bob Diemert / Friendship Field Facebook Group Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1586507791506826

Its changed a bit over the years. It started out built by Granger Taylor, and later acquired by Bob Diemert. Much of the good and true P-40 parts, such as the wings, were incorporated into Ron Fagen's P-40E AK753 Shirley II, which was later re-restored, far more authentically, and now painted in a North African theatre desert scheme at Fagen Fighters WWII Museum.

Based on the above information it sounds like it should go back to Bob's at Friendship Field. Be interesting where it ends up.

How about "Pawn Stars"!! LOL

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Come on guys, it's a non-flying replica, cut it some slack.
Some organizations that would like a WWII fighter for display can't afford the real thing.

So for them, it's better than nothing.

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Also, when "Shirley II" was restored as the "Checkertail" it received new wings. They are no longer the junk wings that came from the Taylor/Diemert plane.

Brandon

I didn't realise that, I've always assumed he restored it to fly.

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Not with the center section visible in the photo above.

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That's a later addition, when initially rebuilt it stood on its own legs:
P-40F @ Friendship Field, Carman, Manitoba by Blake Smith, on Flickr
P-40 F, Bob Diemert, Carman, Manitoba by Blake Smith, on Flickr
Bob Diemert in P-40F by Blake Smith, on Flickr

It's amazing how well the paint has lasted!

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"It's his plane, he spent the money to restore it, he can do with it what he wants. I will never understand what's hard to comprehend about this." - kalamazookid, 20/08/2013
"The more time you spend around warbirds the sooner you learn nothing, is simple." - JohnB, 24/02/22

I think it got pranged on either it's test flight or it's delivery flight to the US.

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