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P-61 BLACK WIDOW/42-39445
P-61 BLACK WIDOW 42-39445
Serial #: 42-39445
Construction #: -
Civil Registration:
  N550NF
   Model: P-61B Black Widow
Name: None
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2006
History:
Delivered to USAAF as 42-39445, 19??.
- Forced landing, 7000 ft up Cyclops mountain,
   Dutch New Guinea, Jan. 10, 1945.
Recovery attempted by MAAM, abandoned, 1985.
Mid Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, PA, May 1988-2006.
- Registered as N550NF.
- Recovery completed, 1991.
- Shipped to Reading, PA.
- Restoration project.
P-61 BLACK WIDOW 42-39445
Resurrecting a Widow:
Chuck Gardner reports from the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Museum.
WARNING: Numerous images.
Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Chuck Gardner/Warbirds Resource Group.
 Photo Source(s):
Chuck Gardner/Warbirds Resource Group.
Timothy Cox Photography
Research Assistance:
None
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