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Test your P-51 memory, knowledge and research ability!
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unknown date/place
(still flying)
Doug Jackson Jr, Dick Phillips
unknown date/place
(still flying)
Doug Jackson Jr, Dick Phillips
Reader's Responses:
Doug Jackson Jr.
This might be Wally Peterson's -51, taken at Chelan Airport, WA. Don't know much about the reg#. though...
Skip Kubik
04/19/2001 20:29
This Mustang looks like the one I believe was once owned or operated by Oral Roberts in the late '50s, early '60's.
Vlado Lenoch
04/30/2001 20:21
Possibly N5445V, which is now restored as ' Worry Bird '
Dick Phillips
05/03/2001 13:34
It is N6313T #2 44-73436 It became N51TK #1 then N51KD. Wally Fisk had it here in the Polar Air Museum for several years, then sold it to someone in the Pacific Northwest. Can't recall the name. The photo is probably at Abbottsford about 1974.
Rorey Sisson
05/14/2011 21:02
The photo was taken in Chelan Washington at the airport. I lived below the hill in the background where the 51 is pictured. I think the the photo is circa 1965-66. I was about 15 years old then, and watched Wally Peterson fly this old war bird all the time. I even got to sit in it once!
Jerry Isenhart
07/02/2012 09:09
The photo is of Wally Peterson's P-51.
Wally hangered the plane at the Chelan Airport, Chelan, Wa, (98816).
Wally would fly frequently over the lake, giving locals and tourists an acrobatic show that was his practice training for Abbotsford and all the other competitions he participated in across the West.
Wally hangered the plane at the Chelan Airport, Chelan, Wa, (98816).
Wally would fly frequently over the lake, giving locals and tourists an acrobatic show that was his practice training for Abbotsford and all the other competitions he participated in across the West.
Wally was a distinguished pilot. He would fly upside down and about 15 feet off the water for 6 or 7 miles and then pull up (push down) and climb straight up to a hammerhead stall. and come back down and back down the lake at 300-400 mph; again at 10-15 feet off the deck and upside down).
Email me if you want to know more.
Here in our region we have the Annual Wally Peterson Air Show each June.
Here's a LINK to a story about the event recently
http://www.golakechelan.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=10764
Case Closed!
