<p>c/n 122-40196.
Actual US military serial ‘44-73656’.
El Salvador Air Force serial ‘FAS-406’.
Operated by Mistral Warbirds and based in France.
2015 Flying Legends Airshow.
Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK.
12-7-2015
</p><p>The following info is from the Flying Legends website:-
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“Built in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, with the serial No. 44-73656 in October 1944 she was accepted by the USAAF and shipped to Great Britain. She was not assigned and returned to the U.S.A to be flown by the Air National Guard. She was retired from service in 1958 and sold for surplus. The El Salvador Air Force acquired her and she was flown during the Soccer War conflict against Honduras from 1968 to 1974. Sold back as surplus in the USA she was acquired and restored in the colours she wears now, “Moonbeam McSwine” flown by Captain W. Whisner during WWII. In 1975 she won Grand Champion Warbird in Fresno CA. Fred Akary – Mistral Warbirds acquired her in 2012 where she now resides in Avignon in the South of France.”
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/65001151@N03">Alan Wilson</a> from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK
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