Curtiss P-40N Warhawk, N405CU / -28841, Air Combat Museum
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Registration: N405CU
Construction Number: -28841
Model Curtiss P-40N Warhawk
Operator: Air Combat Museum
Airport: Springfield - Capital (SPI / KSPI), USA - Illinois
Photographer: Dave Campion
Date Taken: 15/07/2025
Date Submitted: 06/08/2025
Text from the information placard: The latest project for the crew at the Air combat Museum is a WW2 veteran P-40N that a victim to Anti Aircraft fire, when the restoration id finished hopefully in 2024 it will join the ACM's aircraft stable that includes two other WW2 veterans the P-51D Mustang and Corsair F4U. Curtiss P-40-5-CU Warhawk, 42-105079 N405CU, was delivered to the Royal Air Force as a Kittyhawk Mk.IV FX509. Whilst serving in the Middle Easter Theatre in Italy with No. 250 (Sudan) Squadron and flown by Flt/Lt A.M.Brand (SAAF) on a ground attack mission it was hit by anti-aircraft fire in the glycol tank and had to carry out a forced landing at Rimini Airfield. Where it was to stay with a broken fuselage until 1947 when Peter Jansen of Louisiana brought it back to the USA. It then passed through a couple of owners, John G. Stuart followed by John S. Fallis who started to restore it before being acquired by the Air Combat Museum in Springfield IL in 2020. The Air Combat Museum are carrying out a full restoration on Curtiss P-40-5-CU Warhawk, 42-105079 to turn it into a TP-40N (two seat) fitted with an Allison V1710-81 (E6) in the scheme of the USAAF ace Col. R L. Scott's aircraft nicknamed "Old Exterminator" and the author of "God is my Co-pilot". Who was one of America's earliest aces against the Japanese shooting down 13 Japanese
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