Photographed at NASM's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, November 2006, by Steve Doktor
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.