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P-51 Who?   Case # 339
44-73420     N7722C     Closed
Solved by: Baker, Kyburz, Knutsen
P-51 Who 339
Case#: 339
Date: Jun 25 2005
By: Ron Olson
Photo:
Status: Closed
Serial: 44-73420
Registry: N7722C
P-51 Who? Viewer Responses
Roger Baker
06/28/2005 16:53
I saw this airplane (44-73420) at Ardmore airport near Aukland, NZ sometime around 2000-01.
Martin / Swiss Mustangs
06/29/2005 01:56
44-73420, veteran with 165th FS KY ANG and 190th FS ID ANG - to N7722C; today ZK-PLI
Kevin Ryan
07/11/2005 18:40
Apparently she has spent most of her life in her natural paint... http://www.warbirdregistry.org/p51registry/p51-4473420.html
Here's your girl... Serial Number 4473420
Certificate Issue Date 12/20/1984
Model F-51D Mode S Code 52471426 Year Manufacturer None
Cancel Date 02/03/1994 Reason for Cancellation Exported Exported To NEW ZEALAND
Randy Minnick
12/22/2005 21:29
For whatever it means....I just plugged this N Number into the FAA Registry and came up with this (12-22-05):
FAA Registry N-Number Inquiry Results ------------------------------------------------
N7722C is Assigned
Serial Number 4473420
Certificate Issue Date 12/07/2005
Model F-51D Status Valid
Registered Owner Name AIRCORP/PURSUIT LLC
Street 1901 BAYADERE TER
City CORONA DEL MAR State CALIFORNIA Zip Code 92625-1810 County ORANGE
Dale Knutsen
02/13/2006 20:06
During the period that she wore this paint scheme (probably mid to late 1960s), N7722C was owned by Robert Bixler of San Jose, CA. Bixler flew contract flight test operations for FMC Corporation, with most of the ops at low altitudes over Hunter Liggett Military Reservation (central California coast) and Navy bombing ranges at Fallon, NV. Sometime in the early 1970s the aircraft was sold to an owner in Texas, where it was repainted in military colors. It was subsequently sold and exported to a collector in New Zealand, but has recently come back to the United States.
Fred Cressey
08/08/2008 09:47
I have photo's of this plane taken at an Odessa Texas airshow 1979-1980 with the same paint scheme as the photo shown, except that the cowling is bare metal.
Case Closed!
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