Who Case: 198
In the late 70’s, being an AMT, who graduated from an Aeronautical High school and working for a major Airline, a friend and myself got involved with this P-51D, owned by , we believe, Frank Guzman.
He had bought it with the extended canopy and wanted it brought back to its former P-51D status.
We removed the extended canopy and installed an upper canopy assembly from another P-51D Carcass, putting the aircraft back into its former configuration.
During this time, we also did repairs on the Pinto Jet that Guzman owned, after a pilot friend of his bounced it off of a Landing light Assembly, on approach, at Suffolk County Airport, when he experienced a sharp downdraft, just before touchdown.
All this work was accomplished at the previous Suffolk County Air Force Base, then renamed to Suffolk County Airport.