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Hello friends! I just have a quick question pertaining to data plates.

Say if you were building a full-scale P-51 Mustang from the ground up. What sort of data plates would it need? Would you have to put these two plates on the plane (http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/c ... mental.php) (http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cspages/acid.php), or would you be able to use reproduction North American data plates from a place like Pioneer Aero? Thanks!

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Austin Hancock
Pennington P-51 Memorial
www.lp-51.com

The dataplate type depends on what you are doing.

If you are re-building an existing airframe, the original dataplate and paperwork are the provenance of it's authenticity as a P-51.

If you are building a replica, then it is a homebuilt, and would be (for eg) a:

model Hag-kid p-51B
serial No. 001
Manufactured by Hag kid aircraft

It would then only require a dataplate saying as much. If you were to use a repro NAA dataplate, then you would be mis representing the aircraft as being built by NAA.

This would only apply to any example meant to be airworthy. If your intent is to build a replica for display only, then by all means use a repro dataplate, but you would want both the NAA dataplate, and the USAAC dataplate.

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Ok awesome! Thank you very much for the information, that really clears up a lot for me...

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Austin Hancock
Pennington P-51 Memorial
www.lp-51.com