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44-72989
USAF Museum, Volk Field WI
P-51 Survivor 44-72989
Status: On Display
NAA Type: P-51D-25NA
Serial #: 44-72989
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History: 44-72989

1945: Feb - Delivered USAAF
1945: Mar - Departed the US via Newark NJ, for assignment to Eighth AF
(shipping code "SOXO")
1945: Oct - Returned to the US via Newark NJ
various US units
1956: Aug - Dropped from the USAF inventory after crash, Holman Field MN
1979: USAF Museum Inventory

Credit for this information:
Custodian of the Volk Field Static Display
Currently: TSgt Shawn Browne
Previously: j.Leo V. Clark

The Last of the Wild Horses

P-51 Survivors book featuring images from Dick Phillips and John Dienst, with Mark Phillips. To order, goto The Last of the Wild Horses. You can order online. Price is $100 for pages and pages of P-51 Survivor history and photos. Over 2,500 photos! The late Dick Phillips shared hundreds of his P-51 images with us at MustangsMustangs over the last 25 years. If you can, help support his life-long passion. I recently ordered my copy.

Thank you!
Curtis Fowles, MustangsMustangs

10 Images of   44-72989     on file
Images of   44-72989
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Image Credits:
  Dick Phillips   Warbird Images  
  Brian Collins    
  Joe Evans   Joe Evans  
  SSG Mark Turkiewicz    
  Anthony Buechler    
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