07/21/2005. Remarks by Dan Hagedorn, NASM, in response to our inquiries about the origination of "Peter" on the tail:

"We have received the thread of messages that originated with the National Museum of the USAF display relating to the Brewster XA-32A, and which was forwarded to us via our Public Affairs/Communications Office.

We have a very high-quality original of the image in question which, you may be interested to know, was taken August 15, 1944. However, aside from this, a search of our files and photo resources did not reveal any suggestion of why the name Peter had been rather crudely scrawled across the leading edge of the vertical fin of the aircraft.

We examined a number of test reports and engineering documents, and found no officer or engineer associated with the project identified in any of them with that given name.

Although purely speculation, it may be that the name was applied by the photographer for reasons that are now lost to us."

Read the type remarks on page 6758.