03/31/2008. Remarks by Bill Ewing: "This aircraft was produced for the USAAF as a P-51D-25-NA s/n 44-73027 in 1945. It was transferred to the RCAF as a Mustang TF.Mk.IV, s/n 9250, on December 6, 1950. It served with No. 416 (F) Squadron at RCAF Station Uplands, Ontario, and, as indicated by the code letters "PF", No. 443 (Auxiliary) Squadron "City of New Westminster" at RCAF Station Sea Island, Vancouver.
The aircraft was sold on May 20, 1959, and came on the civil register of the USA as N9146R, but it was struck off charge and transferred to the new owner on October 15, 1959, after payment had been received. It changed hands five times before it was sold to Roger Wolfe of Fallon, Nevada, in November 1970, first he listed it as Racer number "12", the following year it was modified for crop spraying. On September 7, 1972 it was sold to Robert E. Guildford, registered as N5747. It was severely damaged on October 9, 1977, in a wheels-up landing at Bakersfield Air Park, Bakersfield, California, following an in-flight engine fire.
It was rebuild at Chino using parts of a former Philippine AF aircraft, sold to Mustang Pilots Club, Los Angeles, California in January 1979, registered as N51MP, and flown again in 1980, only to crash again at Lancaster, California, on October 4, 1980, and being destroyed by the following fire. Over ten years later the wreckage was sold to William A. Speer, La Mesa, California, and rebuild, using a former Indonesian AF airframe, flown again, it was listed as Racer number "56".
The aircraft was sold to Christophe Jacquart and registered in France as F-AZJM in 1993, named "Temptation". In April 1998 it was sold to Fritz Muller of Altenrhein, Switzerland, and on July 2, 1988, it was registered as HB-RCW to Oldy Air Service AF, Altenrhein. The following September 3, while being transferred to Ambri for an air show, the aircraft crashed near Erstfeld, in the Gotthard Pass. The pilot, Christian Schweizer, an experienced professional and Swiss champion aerobatics pilot, and the passenger, his son Daniel, lost their lives."
