Cleveland Air Race Mustang Under Restoration at NEAM

[VintageAviationNews]

Anson Johnson’s P-51D Mustang, #44-72400 Under Restoration at New England Air Museum.

A big thank you to Gina for the update and the many pictures she sent us!

Enjoy.

http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbird-res ... -neam.html

[Pat Carry]

It looks like its going to be a very nice restoration there. Thanks for the update.

[Warbird Kid]

I'm very glad they decided to restore this one-of-a-kind P-51 back to it's racing heyday. I believe there was some talk about converting her back to original stock WWII condition but Im glad common sense won out in the end.

[DH82EH]

Thanks for the link.
Really cool to see the shout out from Tiger Destefani in the comments section. Classy!

Best of luck with this interesting and historical Mustang.

Andy Scott

[Jerry O'Neill]

here's a few pics from about a year ago.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=49389&hilit=N13Y
Jerry

[Snake45]

Very cool! Some years ago, I started a model of this airplane based on the ancient (first generation) Airfix P-51D kit, because the radiator scoop on that kit was so inaccurately shaped it seemed best to razor-saw it off completely. Lots of good pics of this airplane in the Racing Thoroughbred book (might have even been a whole chapter on it). I'll have to see about rescuing that project from the Shelf of Doom...will be interesting to see if they can get the real one restored before I can finish my little toy model....

[Mike]

I bet they'll paint it as a Red Tail!

[Snake45]

I bet they'll paint it as a Red Tail!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Snake45]

There's a nice feature article on this airplane in the brand-new issue of Warbirds International Mustangs (Summer 2014). Lots of great vintage photos, and a few of current resto progress.