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WARHAWK/AK979
P-40 Warhawk AK979 WRG# 0020923
Serial #: AK979
Construction #: 18723
Civil Registration:
  N5672N
  N151U
  N9DA
  N41JR
  N41JA
  N40FT
   Model(s):
  P-40E Warhawk
  Kittyhawk Mk. 1a
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2012
History:
Delivered to Royal Canadian Air Force as 1064.
- BOC: April 23, 1942.
- SOC: August 23, 1946.
- Up for disposal from Patricia Bay AB, Vancouver Island.
Fred Dyson, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA, September 13, 1947.
- Barged to Boeing Field, Seattle, WA, 1947.
Duane W. Myler, Fostoria, OH, 1947.
Joseph L. Ulman, Fostoria, OH, February 1948.
- Registered as N5672N.
Van's Air Service, St. Cloud, MN, 1949-1950.
B.H. Roberts/Continental Steel Buildings, Burbank, CA, November 1950-1956.
- Rebuilt as two-seater.
- First flight July 1951.
Shelby H. Curlee, St. Louis, 1956-1963.
Bruce Goessling, Monterey, CA, 1963.
- Crashed while landing, Hollister, CA, 1963.
Gilbert N. Macy, Monterey, CA 1963-1970.
- Registered as N151U, November 1972.
- Shipped to Hawaii on carrier "Yorktown" for movie Tora! Tora! Tora!, 1969.
-- Damaged during filming.
- Loaned to EAA Museum, Hales Corner, WI, 1969-1973.
Thomas L. Camp, Livermore, CA, November 1972-1978.
- Trucked to Livermore, CA.
- Rebuilt to airworthy.
- First flight, December 13, 1973.
- Flew as USAAC/11496/7.
Registered as N9DA by ??, 19??.
Aircraft Sales Inc, Mooresville, NC, April 1980.
Rourke Aircraft Sales, Bartlesville, NC, May 1980.
- Registered as N41JR.
Tiger International Inc, Los Angeles, CA, 1980.
- Registered as N41JA, September 1980.
Flying Tiger Line/Tiger International Inc, Los Angeles, CA, December 1983-1989.
- Registered as N40FT.
- Flew in camoflage as "67".
- Loaned to San Diego, Aerospace Museum, CA, 1987-1989.
-- Displayed as USAAC/P18723.
Federal Express Corp, Memphis, TN, October 1989-2012.
- Loaned to San Diego, Aerospace Museum, CA, 1989-2002.
- Loaned to Pearl Harbor Air Museum, Ford Island, Hawaii, July 2010-2012.


P-40E Warhawk/AK979 at Hamilton, 1975.
P-40 Warhawk AK979 WRG# 0021165
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):
William B. Marshall
Linda Carry.
Eric Dumigan Photography
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