STEVE DOKTOR COLLECTION
No. 6752. North American NA-111 P-51C Mustang (NX1202 c/n 111-29080) "Excalibur III"
Photographed at NASM's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, November 2006, by Steve Doktor

North American NA-111 P-51C Mustang

08/31/2007. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Built for the USAAF as a P-51C-10-NT, s/n 44-10947, this aircraft was sold to Paul Mantz on February 19, 1946. Registered as NX1202, and listed as Racer number "46" "Excalibur", and later as "60", "Houstonian", the aircraft was successful in many races. It was sold to Charles Blair on May 27, 1952, and registered as N1202, it set a record time of 7 hr 48 min for piston-engined aircraft in a flight from New York to London, UK, on January 31, 1951. In 1974 it was obtained by the NASM.


Created August 31, 2007