Originally posted by Slash27
I thought that was a C model that crashed? The one the guy put down in a back yard?
OK lets clarify the B/C model stuff. There is a P51C flying at Duxford in England, painted as a 352nd FG bird "Princess Elizabeth"
Kermit Weeks owns a P51C that is a flyer down in Florida at Fantasy of Flight. His is painted as a Tuskeegee airmen P51. It used to be better known as Paul Mantz's racing Mustang from the late 1940s.
The Southern Minnesota Wing of the CAF had a P51C that crashed with the pilot being killed not too long ago. It is being rebuilt to fly.
There is a guy in Idaho with a P51B/C that is being restored to flight and will be painted as 4th FG Ace Duane Beeson's "Boise Bee"
Jack Roush of Nascar fame, owns 3 P51s. 2 are P51Ds painted as Yeager's "Glamorous Glennis", and Anderson's "Old Crow"
He is restoring a P51B to flight that will be painted as John England's "U've Had it" It will have a Malcom hood.
All three are in 357th FG markings
http://www.cebudanderson.com/jackroushp51b.htmThere was a new build 2 seat P51B that flies done in 4th FG Markings.
http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51/survivors/pages/42-103293.shtmlThere is at least one other P51B that was recovered from a lake near one of the Florida training bases that may be restored to flight as well.