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Status:	Flying
NAA Type:	F-6K-15NT
Conversion:	rest.P51D
Serial #:	44-12840



Registry:	N51EW
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History: 44-12840 N51EW

1946: Donated to Civil Air Patrol unit, Chicago IL
196?: Earl Reinert, disassembled
1968: Victory Air Museum, IL
1982: Bill Conner, CA
1987: Joe Kasparoff, Montebello CA, restoration
1997: N51EW, Eddie Wachs, Lake Bluff IL
1997: N51EW, restoration completed by Art Teeters at Cal Pacific Airmotive.
1998: N51EW, Won Best P-51 at Oshkosh
2001: N51EW, Vallhalla Aviation Inc, Los Angeles CA, Tom Cruise
2006: N51EW, Tom Cruise P-51 training and solo
2006: N51EW, paint changed to "Kiss Me Kate"
2012: Feb 29, N51EW, reg, Valhalla Aviation Inc, Los Angeles CA
2021: N51EW, Cruise flew his P-51 for new Top Gun movie released in May 2022

The Last of the Wild Horses

P-51 Survivors book featuring images from Dick Phillips and John Dienst, with Mark Phillips. To order, goto The Last of the Wild Horses. You can order online. Price is $100 for pages and pages of P-51 Survivor history and photos. Over 2,500 photos! The late Dick Phillips shared hundreds of his P-51 images with us at MustangsMustangs over the last 25 years. If you can, help support his life-long passion. I recently ordered my copy.

Thank you!
Curtis Fowles, MustangsMustangs

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