| Status: | On Display | 
        
         | NAA Type: | P-51D-25NA | 
        
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         | Serial #: | 44-72989 | 
        
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History: 44-72989     
 
   
 1945: Feb - Delivered USAAF 
 1945: Mar -  Departed the US via Newark NJ, for assignment to Eighth AF 
 (shipping code "SOXO")
 1945: Oct -  Returned to the US via Newark NJ 
 various US units 
 1956: Aug -  Dropped from the USAF inventory after crash, Holman Field MN 
 1979: USAF Museum Inventory 
 
 Credit for this information: 
 Custodian of the Volk Field Static Display 
 Currently: TSgt Shawn Browne 
 Previously: j.Leo V. Clark 
  
  
				 
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 10 Images of   44-72989       on file
  Images of   44-72989 
 
   
   
      Image Credits: 
     
         Dick Phillips   Warbird Images   
   Brian Collins      
   Joe Evans   
Joe Evans      SSG Mark Turkiewicz      
   Anthony Buechler      
     
 
   
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