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Wed Mar 05, 2025 12:22 pm
Wed Mar 05, 2025 3:33 pm
Blue Skies, sad to hear but in my opinion going out at 100 is a pretty good age to hang up the spurs.
No one can say he didn't live a full life.
And of course the $1mil question, what will happen to the fighters?
P-51D 44-73420 - NL7722C
P-47D 42-29150 - N47DM
P-38L 44-26981 - N7723C
F6F-3 08825 - N4965V
Were there any other aircraft in the collection?
Wed Mar 05, 2025 5:03 pm
Rest in peace and blue skies.
Thu Mar 06, 2025 10:14 am
What a remarkable life well lived! RIP.
Driving a Ferrari in the Mille Miglia is very cool.
I'm not familiar with his aircraft, are they seen often?
At his age, I'd guess they would have been flown by others in recent years.
Thu Mar 06, 2025 1:52 pm
Warbird Kid wrote:Blue Skies, sad to hear but in my opinion going out at 100 is a pretty good age to hang up the spurs.
No one can say he didn't live a full life.
And of course the $1mil question, what will happen to the fighters?
P-51D 44-73420 - NL7722C
P-47D 42-29150 - N47DM
P-38L 44-26981 - N7723C
F6F-3 08825 - N4965V
Were there any other aircraft in the collection?
There's also a second Hellcat that was part of the assembly line restoration up in Idaho.
100 is an awesome run, but I'm still sad he didn't live to see the Hellcat that's about finished fly.
Sun Mar 09, 2025 11:58 pm
Warbird Kid wrote:Blue Skies, sad to hear but in my opinion going out at 100 is a pretty good age to hang up the spurs.
No one can say he didn't live a full life.
And of course the $1mil question, what will happen to the fighters?
[b]P-51D 44-73420 - NL7722C
?
Jack didn't own a P51 anymore . This was sold to Andrew McKenna in Sept, 2013 after the death of Jack's pilot , Jeff Harris earlier that year from heart failure.
https://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/s ... l/44-73420
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JohnH on Tue Mar 11, 2025 12:09 am, edited 1 time in total.
Mon Mar 10, 2025 12:02 am
Jack's Obituary was published today in various newspapers in Southern California.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/da ... d=57806609
Sun Mar 16, 2025 5:59 pm
Thank you for your service and blue skies sir...
Lynn
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