01/15/2019. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "This scale Mustang was built by Thomas E. Preuss of Creswell, Oregon. Registered N1081L on September 13, 2002, the aircraft was first flown in 2003, it was deregistered on February 9, 2018.

In WW II the name "Lady Nelda" was worn on the P-51D-5-NT Mustang, serial 44-11165, coded C5-J (incorrectly applied to the left side of the aircraft above). "Lady Nelda" was flown by Lieutenant Edward R. “Buddy" Hayden of the 364th Fighter Squadron (code C5), 357th Fighter Group, Eighth Air Force, based at RAF Leiston, Suffolk, UK.
Lt. Hayden and Captain Ernest Fiebelkorn (20th Fighter Group) were credited for the victory over the Messerschmitt Me 262 flown by Luftwaffe ace Major Walter Nowotny over central Germany on November 8, 1944. Lt. Hayden became a POW after a crash near Kaufbeuren, some 55 miles west of Munich on January 20, 1945."