Recently, I've been doing a bit of research into the history of our museum's P-40M, NZ3119. Thanks to both the Air Force Museum of New Zealand and Archives New Zealand I have a number of things to share.
First, after initially discovering a photograph of NZ3119 in a
WIX thread about about Ron Hildreth (the man standing on the wing), the Air Force Museum of New Zealand was able to point me to a better quality version on their online photograph collection:
(Source:
Air Force Museum of New Zealand)
Next, the museum was able to confirm the identities of the owners of a number of photocopies of logbook pages that the museum had as well as provide summaries of a few more that we didn't. As a result, I was able to "reconstruct" a small portion of NZ3119's hypothetical aircraft log. The entries are reproduced below:
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We also paid to have the accident reports for our P-40M, NZ3119, digitized by Archives New Zealand. They have a great policy that, when a record is scanned at the request of a researcher, it is also uploaded and made available for free on their "Archway" online portal. As a result, I can now just link to the accident reports' location:
Although it's not from this recent round of research, for the sake of completeness, I will point out that the record card for the SS Port Alma, the ship that transported NZ3119 to New Zealand, was
posted in a different WIX thread:
Finally, if anyone has an account over on the
Wings Over New Zealand forum, could they post a link to this thread over there. I don't have an account there myself and I feel like they'd be interested in this information.
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