P | 5 1 M U S T A N G S F O R D M U S T A N G S P | 5 1 M U S T A N G S	MustangsMustangs   >   P-51 Mustang   >   Survivors   >   44-73656         P-51 Home       Forums       P-51 News       Specifications       Production       Accidents       P-51 Variants       P-51 PastPaint       P-51 Who?       Links       P-51 Gear       Search       Contact     P-51 Images       Military       Survivors       Air 2 Air       Black & White       P-51 Shows       Mustangs x2       Wallpapers       Warbirds       Use Guidelines     Survivors       The P-51 List       A-36       P-51A       P-51B/C       P-51D Home         44-13253         44-72000         44-73000         44-74000         44-75000         Misc.       P-51K       P-51H       Cavalier       Commonwealth     P-51 Aces       WWII Aces       Top Aces       Ace In A Day     P-51 Who?       Unsolved       Recent           44-73656, 44-12473a       N2151D     " Moonbeam McSwine "     Type: P-51D-25NA Serial #: 44-73656 44-12473a Registry: N2151D Owner: Vlado Lenoch Base: La Grange IL Status: Flying    << Prev. Survivor     Next Survivor >>        History / Previous Identities:       1944: Oct - Manufactured at Inglewood, Ca 1945: Mar 29 - Accepted by USAAF, via Newark NJ shipping dock to USAAF depot in Great Britain. Not assigned 1945: July - returned to USAAF depot, Newark NJ 1947: Mar 31 - to TX ANG, 182nd FS, Brooks AFB, San Antonio 1950: Nov 16 - to 136th FG, CONAC, Langley AFB, VA 1950: Dec 26 - reassigned to TAC 1951: May 03 - to CO ANG, 120th FS, Buckley Field, Denver CO 1953: Mar 31 - to MN ANG, 109th FS, St. Paul MN 1956: Dec 10 - storage at McClellan AFB, Sacramento CA 1958: Aug 17 - N5073K, sold surplus at McClellan to Delta A&E Parts Inc of N. Carolina for $1,307.50 1958: Nov - N5073K (Mike Coutches) Hayward CA 1958: Dec - sold (David Lindsay Jr. - TransFlorida Aviation) Sarasota FL 1963: sold, North Carolina 1963: sold (Howard Olsen) Midland TX, racer #1 1963: reworked by Cavalier Aircraft in Florida 1968: sold (Lefty Gardner) Galveston TX 1968: Salvadorena FAS 406 (El Salvador Air Force) 1974: Oct - N32FF (Jack Flaherty) Monterey CA, adopted 44-12473 1975: sold (Gordon Plaskett) King City CA. Restored as "Moonbeam McSwine" 1975: N2151D, won Grand Champion Warbird in Fresno CA 1976: Mar - sold, Phoenix AZ 1981: Mar - (Chris Williams) Ellensburg WA 1988: Apr - (Vlado Lenoch) LaGrange IL 1997: Reno - finished 5th in Bronze at 362 mph 1999: Reno - finished 1st in Bronze at 369 mph 2000: Reno - qualified 27th at 298 mph Seen regularly at shows around the USA Flies in the USAF Heritage Flights Thanks to Vlado Lenoch for providing aircraft history         Images of     44-73656, 44-12473a     N2151D     " Moonbeam McSwine " 29 pics on file       Image Credits:   Curtis Fowles - MustangsMustangs     James P. Church     Mark Kallio     Norm Shea     USAF     via Vlado Lenoch     Need to use any of over 6000 images at MustangsMustangs? Please read our Image Use Guidelines.   F O R D M U S T A N G S P | 5 1 M U S T A N G S | MustangsMustangs | P-51 Home | Survivors | Pictures | Forum | Aces | contact | THANK YOU! to everyone who helps keep the P-51 (and this website) flying. Copyright © 2009     MustangsMustangs       Thu Mar 19 21:12:33 PDT 2009	F O R D M U S T A N G S P | 5 1 M U S T A N G S F O R D M U S T A N G S