File:Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk (38444135660).jpg

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History: Delivered to RAF as ET482. Transferred to RNZAF as NZ3009, April 1942. - Allocated to USAAC 68th PG, Tonga after Pearl Harbor Attack. - Transferred to 14th Squadron RNZAF, served till wars end. - Sold as scrap. Asplin's Supplies, Rukuhia, NZ, 1959. - Scrapyard. d'E.C. Darby & R.H. McGarry, Auckland, NZ, 1959-1994. - Recovered from Rukuhia, NZ scrapyard, 1959. - Loaned to Museum of Transport & Technology, Auckland, NZ, 1964-1994. -- Displayed as NZ3009. -- Static restoration using wings of NZ3203. Old Flying Machine Company, Duxford, UK, 1994-1997. - Restored to airworthy. Pacific Aircraft Ltd, Auckland, NZ, December 9, 1997-1998 - Registered as ZK-RMH. - Final assembly, Whenuapai AB. - First flight December 1997. Old Flying Machine Co (NZ) Ltd, Auckland, NZ, May 5, 1998-2002. - Flew as RNZAF/NZ3009. - Shipped to UK, Feb, 1999. - Arrived dismantled, Duxford, March 19, 1999. - Operated by Old Flying Machine Co, Duxford, 2000-2002. - Operated by Breitling Fighters Team, 2002.

-- Flown as USAAC/AVG/663/88
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Source Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk
Author Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand
Camera location44° 43′ 18.9″ S, 169° 14′ 49.98″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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