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WARHAWK/41-25158



Serial #: 41-25158
Construction #:
  19177
Civil Registration:
  ZK-RMH
  Model(s):
  P-40E Warhawk
  Mk. Ia
Name: None
Status: Airworthy
Last info: 2002

History:
Delivered to RAF as ET482.
Transferred to RNZAF as NZ3009, April 1942.
- Allocated to USAAC 68th PG, Tonga after Pearl Harbor Attack.
- Transferred to 14th Squadron RNZAF, served till wars end.
- Sold as scrap.
Asplin's Supplies, Rukuhia, NZ, 1959.
- Scrapyard.
d'E.C. Darby & R.H. McGarry, Auckland, NZ, 1959-1994.
- Recovered from Rukuhia, NZ scrapyard, 1959.
- Loaned to Museum of Transport & Technology, Auckland, NZ, 1964-1994.
-- Displayed as NZ3009.
-- Static restoration using wings of NZ3203.
Old Flying Machine Company, Duxford, UK, 1994-1997.
- Restored to airworthy.
Pacific Aircraft Ltd, Auckland, NZ, December 9, 1997-1998 - Registered as ZK-RMH.
- Final assembly, Whenuapai AB.
- First flight December 1997.
Old Flying Machine Co (NZ) Ltd, Auckland, NZ, May 5, 1998-2002.
- Flew as RNZAF/NZ3009.
- Shipped to UK, Feb, 1999.
- Arrived dismantled, Duxford, March 19, 1999.
- Operated by Old Flying Machine Co, Duxford, 2000-2002.
- Operated by Breitling Fighters Team, 2002.
-- Flown as USAAC/AVG/663/88.



Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Photo Source(s):
Dave McDonald via Mike R. Henniger

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