| The aircraft is TG-REI, a Guatemalan registered P-51D operated during the late 1960s and early 70s by the Ibarguen Family in Guatemala. This airplane was destroyed in a crash in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, during a ferry flight to the USA. Registered during January 1968 in Guatemala's Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil, as TG-REI (44-74430) to Roberto and Enrique Ibarguen; Registration cancelled 1978 upon sale as N-2265P; Registered N52HA, crashed in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico, during flight to the USA June 05, 1978. N.A.A. # 122-40970 P-51D 44-74430 Went to the RCAF as 9588, B.O.C. Nov081950 S.O.C. May141959 Sold to James DeFuria/Intercontinental Airways as N-8673E To AeroEnterprises, Elkhart IN June181960 To John Hibbard, Corcoran CA Mar031961 To Gerald T. Smith, Bakersfield CA Apr131962 To Ronald A. Hevle, Bakersfield CA Jan231963 To Glenn Johnson Realty, Sacramento CA Sept161964 To Leland F. Spalding, Sacramento CA Feb131965 To Robert J. Love, San Jose CA May111965 To Robert J. Love, San Salvador, El Salvador as YS-149P 1965. To Roberto and Enrique Ibarguen, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala as TG-REI 1967/78 To William Harrison and Terry Randall / HArRan Aircraft Sales, Muskogee OK May 1978. as N2265P June 5, 1978 registered as N52HA to Lynn Florey, Eden Prairie, MN. Crashed on this date in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico during ferry flight to the USA the pilot was Burn Bryam, killed in the accident.
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