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  Marc Koelich, Tulio Soto, Mario Overall


 
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  Mario Overall December 16, 2002 at 09:22:55  
That Mustang is TG-REI, once owned by Rick Ibarguen of Guatemala. The plane was sold to someone at the US, but on the flight back there were some troubles with the instrument panel, and hot-water at high pressure
entered inside the cockpit, burning the pilot, who in the end wrapped himself in his parachute and managed to crash-land the plane in Mexico.

I'm sure that the photo was sent by Rodrigo Ibarguen, Rick's son, who is also an accomplished pilot. They now have a Stearman if I'm not wrong, and rumours says that they still keep a zero-hours Packard Merlin stored
here in Guatemala's Intl. Airport.

By the way, this Stang is ex 44-74430A.
Cheers !

Mario Overall
LAAHS Guatemala




  Marc Koelich December 16, 2002 at 09:24:55  
Case#226 : this Mustang is 44-74430, former RCAF9588, N6873E, YS-149P (another Salvadoran Mustang?). It then went to a private owner in Guatemala and was registered TG-REI. It reportedly crashed in Mexico in 1978 during the ferry flight back to the USA, with the registration N22765P or N52HA, killing the pilot Dr Byram.

If not mistaken, there is another picture of this Mustang in silver finish, or NMF, with wing tanks, maybe in preparation of the ferry flight. The wreck might have been recovered and restored, as this plane is given by some sources as NL51N, "Tangerine".




  Tulio Soto December 16, 2002 at 09:28:18  
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.




  Martin (Swiss Mustangs) December 20, 2002 at 01:09:12  
...so it seems that cases #226 and #224 are one and the same aircraft.

Best regards
Martin (Swiss Mustangs)



Case Closed!



44-74430

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