![]() It was an Australian bird A68-175fg, I later heard 201F was in a museum somewhere and the 4 seater was converted to a stock canopy after Frank sold it. I wrote down the build # from one of the Stangs but I can't remember which one. I put on a great show for the fence-sitters as I swerved up and down the runway. I learned to fly a tailwheel in the J bird. This was a stock 51D 201F owned by Sandy Edelman & John Bosco. The Pinto was a fun ride too.Īt the time I was also helping out with another Mustang based at Farmingdale Republic Airport also on Long Island. cockpit design AGARD - CP - 312 p 120 N82-13048 AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT. ![]() At the time Frank had a T-28 and a Temco Super Pinto TT1 Jet. p 51 A82-17283 Air Traffic Control Association, Annual Fall Conference, 25th. Sounds like it is almost ready to fly, let us know when you start flying it. I seem to remember mention of a Avro CF-100 a short lived Canadian jet fighter. Great cockpit Looks like a brand new fresh from the factory P-51. The memory (and the hearing loss) will last a lifetime. I am almost positive this was the Diemert Mustang. The new scheme is authentic to a specific WWII pilot.īack in early to mid 70s four seat mustang was owned by the late Frank Guzman and based at Westhampton Airport on Long Island (now Gabreski Airport). The composite was rebuilt at Shafter, CA, 1975-82, and became Vance's "Million Dollar Baby." Art Vance has since changed the scheme on his Mustang, but I can't remember the new name. Note: The WW text also states that the id from A68-175 was transferred to a composite rebuild using parts from another Mustang recovered from an Illinois junkyard. Perhaps Diemert performed the conversion? If this is A68-175, this airplane is now with Art Vance in Santa Rosa, CA, as N64824. Diemert's name is not in the ownership history. This is A68-175, CF-WWH, modified by a Canadian owner sometime during 1967-71 as a 4-seater using a CF-100 canopy, yet Mr. ![]() As I said, back in the mid-'70s Air Classics showed a photo of a 4-seater Mustang reported as owned by Canadian warbird collector Bob Diemert.Īnother possible explanation comes from the 1996 Warbirds Worldwide Directory. Dienert's modified D seated four under the T-33 canopy, according to a blurb and photo in a 1974-75 Air Classics "Warbird Report." The photo shows the airplane in a civil scheme with a stripe down the side. ![]()
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