Warbird Information Exchange

"some people" decided we had recovered 44-13954 after only relatives of "954" had been found, and that plane had a nicer scheme, but from the start it was known that it was 44-13663, the two planes at crashlanded at quite a distance from each other, and the locals had revered to this plane as the silver one. "Da Quake was put back on its gear on a recovery attempt in October 1944, and "sanked" on the beach with the gear down. The recovered wreck had the gear up. There are other details, I have the original recovery files in my collection. 44-13663, without a doubt.

Laurent

There was a thread on the P-51 SIG forum, some years ago, which also outlined, without a doubt, how the recovered airframe was actually that of 44-13663 as well, and is not "Da' Quake"/44-13954 (for instance, the bent prop blades match the same as can be seen in wartime photos of the crashed/beached 44-13663, and do not match the bent prop blades that can be seen in wartime photos of the crashed/beached "Da' Quake"/44-13954).

BT-13, where is this?

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One of the Soplatas, but likely gone now.