| Status: | Restoration |
| NAA Type: | P-51D-20NA |
| Serial #: | 44-72028 |
| Registry: | N514L |
| .. past: | N22B (#2) G-LYNE N51JY |
1944: Dec 27, accepted USAAF
1944: Dec 29, delivered, Long Beach CA
1945: Jan 19, deployed, PTO, 5th AF, 35th FG, 40th FS
1946: Apr 30, 49th FG 7th FS Chitose AFB Japan
1946: Jun 12, midair collision with 44-73821, landed safely
1948: May 28, Air Material Command, Sacramento CA, for disposal
1948: N22B (#2)
1948: Aug, shipped to Israel in crates marked as farm equipment (also rep as 1954)
1948: Israel, rep as IDFAF 2341/41
1963: Mar 17, IDFAF, SOC
1975: derelict stored outside in Israel
1976: recovered by Robs Lamplough, Duxford UK
1980: E. Noel Robinson / Murray C Anderson - restoration project
1995: Dec 05, G-LYNE, Robinson / Anderson, UK - restoration project
2002: N51JY, Jeremy Porter - project moved to USA
2006: project sold
2010: Jan 13, N514L, Centerline Holdings
2011: fuselage done
2013: wings, flaps and ailerons at Odegaard Wings
2018: rep. restoration in Shafter CA, Lance Ricotta
1944: Dec 29, delivered, Long Beach CA
1945: Jan 19, deployed, PTO, 5th AF, 35th FG, 40th FS
1946: Apr 30, 49th FG 7th FS Chitose AFB Japan
1946: Jun 12, midair collision with 44-73821, landed safely
1948: May 28, Air Material Command, Sacramento CA, for disposal
1948: N22B (#2)
1948: Aug, shipped to Israel in crates marked as farm equipment (also rep as 1954)
1948: Israel, rep as IDFAF 2341/41
1963: Mar 17, IDFAF, SOC
1975: derelict stored outside in Israel
1976: recovered by Robs Lamplough, Duxford UK
1980: E. Noel Robinson / Murray C Anderson - restoration project
1995: Dec 05, G-LYNE, Robinson / Anderson, UK - restoration project
2002: N51JY, Jeremy Porter - project moved to USA
2006: project sold
2010: Jan 13, N514L, Centerline Holdings
2011: fuselage done
2013: wings, flaps and ailerons at Odegaard Wings
2018: rep. restoration in Shafter CA, Lance Ricotta
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