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Howdy all

Comanche Fighters new P-40M
Rebuilt by Precision Airmotive , assembled and repainted by Ezell Aviation

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry ... ertxt=40DF

Lightning

Not Precision Airmortive but PAP and the late Murray Griffiths from Wangaratta, AUS.
The P-40 was painted there and finishing touches done by Ezell in USA.

Howdy Ben G
They are not called PAP any more !
New Owner and new name Precision Airmotive

Lightning

Lightning, I stand corrected but most of the work was done by PAP initially.

What a looker...

Perfect paint job>>>

Scheme is RAAF No 450 Sqn [Desert Harassers] markings who flew in the western Desert campaign and Italy...

I had the pleasure of spending Saturday at the Heritage Flight training event at Davis Monthan AFB. The P-40M was the highlight of the show for me and I will apologize to Dan Freidkin right here in front of God and everybody for all the slobber that I got on his airplane! Hope to see it at Chino in a couple of months too.

Not a well known fact - Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Flying Officer (FO) Herold Fesler "Bud" Marting, MC, from Danville, Indiana, flew with No. 450 Squadron shooting down three enemy aircraft and damaging one. From my forthcoming book "American RCAF Warriors."

Cheers,

Tom Walsh.

Marting's victory list:

September 15, 1942 - Destroyed a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter and damaged another at El Alamein while flying Kittyhawk Mk Ia EV160.

October 20, 1942 - Destroyed an Italian Macchi C.202 fighter at Fuka while flying Kittyhawk Mk III FR251.

October 23, 1942 - Destroyed a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter at EI Alamein while flying Kittyhawk Mk III FR309.

Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) No. 450 Squadron flew Curtiss-Wright Kittyhawk Mk Ia's (P-40E's), Mk III's (P-40K/M's) and Mk IV's (P-40N's) in the fighter-bomber role during the North African campaign. When Marting arrived, the squadron was operating from Landing Ground (LG) 91 Amriya south and called themselves "The Desert Harassers".

Cheers,

Tom Walsh.

Nice to see some air under those wings...

This flew to Chino yesterday along with 'Fragile but Agile' and *should* be flying at the airshow there in a couple of weeks.

More pics showing the Artwork

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1648742 ... 635263197/

Lightning

I guess us not Facebook types are out of luck on the pics

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Zero Surprise!!...

Thanks Mark, that looks amazing! Kudos to the owner for choosing this colour scheme.

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Zac in NZ
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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

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