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    Airframe Family: Curtiss 81/P-40 Tomahawk / 87/P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk
    Latest Model:Kittyhawk I
    Last Military Serial:A29-53 RAAF
    Construction Number:16738
    Compressed ID:Curtiss Kittyhawk I sn A29-53 RAAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Moorabbin Air Museum, Moorabbin, Melbourne, Victoria

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-40E.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-13522.

    March 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A29-53 as a Kittyhawk I.

    June 1944

    Relegated to ground instructional airframe.

    November 1946

    Written off.

    February 1949

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Australian Air Force.

    1949

    Sold to farmer at Colac, Victoria.

    November 1972


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: The fuselage of RAAF Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk A29-53 was found on a farm near Colac Vic in 1966. It was displayed at the museum for many years mounted on a spare CAC Mustang mainplane as seen here

    From 1996 to 2002

    To Australian National Aviation Museum, Moorabbin, Melbourne, Victoria.
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    To Moorabbin Air Museum, Moorabbin, Melbourne, Victoria.
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