07/31/2014. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Produced as a P-51D-25-NT under s/n 44-84753, the aircraft was delivered to the USAAF in June 1945. The aircraft was sold for $ 2,030 to Joe K. Hammer at McClellan AFB, Sacramento, California, on September 3, 1957, and was subsequently painted by Dale Aznoe in the pictured livery: overall red with black stripes outlined in white. The aircraft was registered N5436V and in 1958 it was sold to the next owner.

In 1963 it was sold again, to Robert L. Rodman of Fullerton, California, while in 1966 it was registered to Les Grant of Santa Barbara. On June 24, 1979, the aircraft was registered as N51TC to Ted Contri of Reno, Nevada, who owned it till 1986. In November 1986 the registration N51BE was reserved but not taken up, instead it was registered as N251BP in February 1987, to Robert J. Pond of Planes of Fame East, at Plymouth, Minnisota, wearing its original s/n 44-84753, coded RJ-P and named Mighty Moose.

On March 18, 1999, the aircraft was registered to Bernie F. Jackson of Paulsbo, Washington, and in2001it was labeled RCAF 753 and named The Vorpel Sword. It was involved in a landing mishap at Minden, Nevada in December 2005, suffering damage that took a year to repair. It was re-flown in January 2007, finished in bare metal and a red star at the fuselage, and named Tati."