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Enregistrement		 Aircraft Name
Nom de l’avion		 Canadian Designation(s)
Désignation(s) canadien(s)		 American Designation
Désignation américaine
Role
9261 Mustang P-51D-20-NA   
Canadian Military Serial Numbers -- Numéros de série militaires canadiens
Post Unification - Après l’unification Pre Unification - Pré unification Unification
RCAFRoyal Canadian Air Force
/
CFCanadian Forces
/
CAFCanadian Armed Forces

ARCAviation royale canadienne
/
FCForces canadiennes
/
FACForces armées canadiennes
RCAFRoyal Canadian Air Force

ARCAviation royale canadienne
RCNRoyal Canadian Navy

MRCMarine royale canadienne
 Army
Armée		 1968 February 1
9557  
 
Aircraft Characteristics
Caractéristiques de l’avion		 Operational History
Historique opérationnel
Disposition		 AC silhouette
View on external web site
Afficher sur un site Web externe		 View Below
Voir ci-dessous		 Sold
 
Company
Compagnie		 Model
Modèle		 Variant
Variante		 Company #
Compagnie #
North American Aviation NA-122 TF Mk. IV  122-31569
 
Manufactured By
Fabriqué par		 Aircraft Owned By
Aéronef appartenant à		 Taken On Strength
Pris en force		 Struck Off Strength
Effectif rayé
1947 June 7 1960 September 20 
 
Aircraft Coded As
Aéronef codé comme		 Aircraft Named As
Aéronef nommé comme		 Pennant#
Fanion #		 Instructional
AFAirframe
 #
Cellule d’instruction #
Lauro Jo    
 
Engine(s)
Moteur(s)
TSNTime Since New
(Hours:Minutes)
TSNTemps écoulé depuis la nouvelle
(Heures:Minutes)
TSOTime Since Overhaul
(Hours:Minutes)
TSNTemps écoulé depuis la révision
(Heures:Minutes)		 History Card
Carte historique
  View - Voir
 
Other Forces Military/Police Serial Numbers, Civil Registrations - Numéros de série militaires/de police des autres forces, registres d’état civil
RAFRoyal Air Force
RFCRoyal Flying Corps
USAAFUnited States Army Air Force
USAFUnited States Air Force
USNUnited States Navy
44-63843  
Other Forces Military/Police - Autres forces militaires/police Civil Registrations - Enregistrements civils
N6342T 
 
Aircraft On Display - Aéronefs exposés
Museum/On Display At - Musée/Sur l’affichage à
GPSGlobal Positioning System
(
WGSWorld Geodetic System
-84)		 Map-Carte
 
 
Aircraft Incidents - Incidents d’aéronefs

Date		 Category
Catégorie
Unit		 Location
Emplacement
1961 August 24 Carberry, Manitoba, Canada 
On Board
À bord		 Uninjured
Survivants		 Injured
Blessé		 Fatalities
Décès		  
GPSGlobal Positioning System
(
WGSWorld Geodetic System
-84)		 Map
Carte
 
 
Aircraft Incident Safety Reports - Rapports sur la sécurité des incidents d’aviation
 
RCAFRoyal Canadian Air Force
Directorate of Flight Safety
Direction de la sécurité des vols de l’
ARCAviation royale canadienne
RCAFRoyal Canadian Air Force
Other Reports
Autres rapports -
ARCAviation royale canadienne
  English - Anglais French - Français English - Anglais
Date
FSIRFlight Safety Investigation Report
 Epiloque
RESVRapport d’enquête de Sécurité des vols
 Epilogue
RCAFRoyal Canadian Air Force
L20Accident Record Card
RCAFRoyal Canadian Air Force
AIFAccident Investigation File
1961 August 24 
 
Other Reports - Autres rapports
Date Report By/Report - Rapport par/Rapport Report - Rapport
1961 August 24
 
Operational History - Historique opérationnel
1953 November 10: To SR 25 AMB long term storage, Authority QTO 1627.[RCAF Aircraft Record Card Transfers]
1956 April 20: To RR Lincoln Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Authority QTO 467.[RCAF Aircraft Record Card Transfers]
1956 July 19: To APDAL (Aircraft Pending Disposal At Location) Storage Lincoln Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Authority QTO 753.[RCAF Aircraft Record Card Transfers]
1957-1961: Stored, uncoverted, at RCAF Station Carberry, Manitoba
1960 September 20: CADC (Crown Assets Disposal Corporation) Sold to James H. Defuria and Fred J. Ritts, 3441 Burnet Ave, Syracuse, New York United States, Issue Voucher M545, Sales Order 97880, RCAF ME 2100, Authority QTO 238.[RCAF Aircraft Record Card Transfers]
1961: To Aero Enterprises, Elkhart, IN, . 1961 August 24: Crashed during test-flight at Carberry. When the Aero Enterprises crew first attempted to move these Aircraft in 1961, Ed Fleming, a Canadian pilot and AME crashed and cartwheeled RCAF 9557(N6342T) on 24 Aug 1961 in a farmer’s field near Carberry when the engine failed during a test flight. Luckily, he was tightly belted in. When the engine was salvaged for parts the next year, it was found that RCAF mechanics had taken the heads off all engines and placed bags of silica gel desiccant inside the heads, as part of the long term storage arrangement. As this was unknown to the salvage crews another one or two Merlin engined Mustangs had been destroyed at Carberry but fortunately during ground run-up tests. A lesson learned!!

At this time, the wings of RCAF 9568 and 9575 were separated from their respective fuselages. It is not known if 9568 ever got its own wing back but 9575 never did. Vernon?s research indicate that 9575 was stored in Aero Enterprise’s storage barn at LaPorte, IN, along with several other Mustangs. Since 9575 ended up as just a fuselage hulk in the storage barn, and was eventually scrapped, the original Wing could have gone on to any other Mustang at Elkhart. When he was rebuilding 9575, Richard Ransopher had three damaged wings from other identified Mustangs. Later in the year 9575 was sold as scrap to Leonard Tanner of North Cranby, CT. 9575 was placed in Aero Enterprise’s storage barn at LaPorte, Indiana, along with several other non-airworthy Mustang hulks.

1967: To Robert Diemert, Carmen, Manitoba, , as wreckage.
Date unknown: To W. Erickson, Minneapolis, MN, date uncertain, fuselage only.
Date unknown: To David Zeuschel, Van Nuys, CA, date unkown, still just a fuselage only.

Used by No. 424 Squadron (Auxiliary) at Hamilton, Ontario. Also used at RCAF Station Sea Island, BC.
Sold to James H. Defuria (dba Intercontinental Airways of Canastota, NY).
To US registery as N6342T.

9575 was placed in Aero Enterprise’s storage barn at LaPorte, Indiana, along with several other non-airworthy Mustang hulks.
In 1964, when Aero Enterprises fell onto hard times and went out of business, they advised the FAA that they had scrapped severalof these Aircraft hulks that had previously been assigned registrations, and it is presumed that the same thing happened to 9575. However, 9575 and at least one or two others have turned up over the years. Vernon was told that the wing package with 9575 was later sold to a John Marlin, who used it to build a Martin Baker M.B.5 replica in California, using many Mustang parts. This leaves the question of where Bob Baker, a later owner of the 9575 fuselage found a wing for this Aircraft that would become the restored Mustang, Miss Oklahoma. When Richard Ransopher owned RCAF 9575 in the mid-70s, he told Vernon that late warbird collector Len Tanner had found 9575 in a Decatur, IL scrap yard late in 1962. This coincides with information in the Aircraft record files when acquired by Vintage Wings.
Note: There are many mysterious date discrepancies between the various documents associated with many of the Mustangs purchased by De Furia. For example: between the RCAF SOS date, the date on the FAA Bill of Sale and the date of the CADC signature. This is partly because some of the documents were not produced until years in arrears, when the FAA needed them for registration. This was not a problem with RCAF 9575, as the owners did not initially register the Aircraft with the FAA. It is not known what Bob Baker, a later owner of 9575, had to do to in order to produce a documented "chain of ownership" for the FAA after he had restored the Aircraft. By this time, several of the people involved with the Aircraft were long-since dead and the Aircraft had changed ownership several times not as an Aircraft but as scrap metal! In the 1960’s the FAA demanded paperwork documenting the Aircraft back to when the RCAF had sold them. The next owners of 9575 were the Whittington Bros., who were air racers followed by aerobatic pilot Budd Davisson, a former columnist for FLYING magazine.
Following Davisson?s ownership, 9575 passed into the hands of a Fred Webster, then a Dr. Steve Schulke and finally the late Duane Egli of Fabens, TX. Egli was another warbird restorer, who was involved with Mustangs and Hawker Hurricanes. Eventually, in 1977, Richard Ransopher, who appears to have been the first person to make an attempt at restoring this Aircraft, bought this very dismantled and picked-over partial Mustang fuselage for $3,000 including an assorted package of damaged wings from N1335 (ex-RCAF 9597), N6175C and N5478V. Nothing forward of the firewall remained of 9575 nor was there a rear fuselage or tail section. The Ransopher restoration project was initially located in Grapevine, TX, but in the early to mid 1980s it was moved to Kernersville, NC.

Perhaps tiring of such a daunting restoration effort, Richard Ransopher sold the Aircraft in 1998 to Robert S. Baker of Alva, OK and restoration (fuselage and wing restoration) work continued at Warbirds Inc. of Oklahoma City. In 1999 the project was moved to Alva, OK for detailing and completion work by Bob Baker. Finally registered as N351D and named "Miss Oklahoma", Skip Holm, the famous warbird pilot made the first post- restoration test flight on 17 June 2000. In the same year it
was unveiled at the EAA convention at Oshkosh, WI and in 2001 it won the "Best P-51" award at Oshkosh.
Michael Potter of Ottawa, Ontario acquired the Aircraft 29 April, 2005 which was registered as CF-VPM. A new paint scheme was applied in 2006 to show the Aircraft in the wartime RCAF P-51D colours of 442 Squadron as Mustang Y2-C. The ex-RCAF Mustang 9575 had finally come home to Canada 

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