1950: Feb 23, SOC/stored, RAAF No 1 Aircraft Depot, Tocumwal NSW
1950: Aug, ferried, RAAF Fairbairn - Schofields
1950: RAAF 78th Fighter Wing
1952: RAAF No. 2 Operational Training Unit
1953: RAAF No. 23 City of Brisbane Squadron
1956: stored, RAAF No 3 Aircraft Depot
1959: RAAF Training Corps, Queensland Flight
1970: stored, RAAF Museum, Point Cook VIC
1991: restoration, to airworthy
1995: VH-SVU, RAAF Museum, Point Cook VIC
1999: Feb 17, first-flight, "Duffys Delight"
2005: Aug, grounded, RAAF Museum has grounded all heavy tail-dragger operations
2012: Feb, metal in the Merlin oil screens has grounded this bird indefinitely.
2019: Feb 05, engine runs
2023: Jan, Will be flying again soon!
2023: Feb 24, Heritage Flight w/ F-35
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!
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