Problems in 2020
moving to June 12th, 2021 is a bad memory today, yet I leave here a reminder of what happened.
moving to June 12th, 2021 is a bad memory today, yet I leave here a reminder of what happened.
TYPE: P40-N-5CU
Registration: F-AZKU
Pervious identities: VH-KTI
Constructor number: 29677
Serial number: 42-105915
As the war entered 1944. it was decided to try improve the Curtiss P-40’s performance. So it was to lighten the airframe by suppressing two of the six machine guns and change the material and design of somme components to reduce the overall empty weight from 6 400 Ib to 6 000 Ib. In doing so the designation of the type change to P-40N, the last operational version of the P-40.The airframe of 42-105915 was discovered, without its engine, recovered by Charles Darby in 1974 and crated to be transported to Auckland. New Zealand.
Murray Griffith, boss of Precision Aerospace undertook the restoration of 42-105915 to flying status. The job took its conclusion in 2002 with the first flight of 42-105915. wearing its colors when it was flown by its pilot It. Robert Warren just before beingabandoned on Tadji’s airfield.
Christian Amara went to Australia in 2007 to buy this particular aircraft and in spring 2008. registered F-AZKU, it was one of the star performers of this year’s Amicale Jean-Baptist Salis airshow.