Frequent contributor Albert Dyer sent in this photos, noting: “This P-51 is new in every way. Jerry Calkins, a regular visitor to the American Aero Services facility has watched its progress since the first skin was made at American Aero Services.”
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This reminds me of Bill Frnof , from Houma La. 1967 as he would buzz the rented cessna 150 as I sat at the end of runway 17 doing preflight run up and 150 would literally Jump Off The Runway just a quick up and down as Bill would do a high speed inverted pass and pull out to a vertical climb
This is one airplane I will love to fly.
Is this a case of having a dataplate pulled off of some scrap pile that was once an aircraft and then making an airframe from scratch to attach it to. It is referred to as a “New” aircraft so it is either an EAB or a case of jack-up the dataplate and replace everything under it.
Nice this is good to see. Is there a website that we can go to to follow the construction along?
Dave,
Here you go: http://americanaeroservices.com/
It is a great place about 8 minutes from my house located at the New Smyrna Beach airport and owned by Gary Norville. I go there many times a year just to look around, and I took a flight on a B-24 out of there last year. I’ve got many pictures of this same P-51 and also the P-40, F4U, B-17, B-24, B-25, TBM, etc. Oh, and also a working Scud missile truck, the only one in N. American 🙂
Ken
I checked their website, and it’s not featured as a project. Perhaps the owner wants its progress kept private, as a local P-38 owner does.