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    Airframe Family: Curtiss 81/P-40 Tomahawk / 87/P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk
    Latest Model:Kittyhawk IA
    Last Military Serial:1038 RCAF
    Construction Number:15208
    Last Civil Registration:N40245
    Compressed ID:Curtiss Kittyhawk IA sn 1038 RCAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Kittyhawk IA.

    22 October 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1038.

    Transferred to No. 118 (F) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS.

    13 September 1947

    To Fred Dyson, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA with new c/r NC1223N.

    1949

    To Bob Sturges, Troutdale, OR with new c/r N1223N.

    1954

    To Rogue River Water Association, Medford, OR, keeping c/r N1223N.

    1954

    To Weather Modification Co, Redlands, CA keeping c/r N1223N.


    Photographer: William T Larkins

    1959

    To David B. Robinson, Miami, FL, keeping c/r N1223N.

    Used as advertising display at drive-in theater.

    From 1960 to 1964

    Derelict at Pompano Beach Airport.

    1969

    To William Ross, Chicago, IL.

    1970

    To Robert L. Goodman, Little Rock, AR.

    1975

    To Charles F. Nichols, Covina, CA.

    1975

    Placed on display with Yanks Air Museum, Chino Airport, Chino, CA.
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    1988

    Rebuilt by Yankee Air Corps, Chino CA.

    6 June 1988

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX40245 (P-40E, 1038) issued.

    January 1991


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA

    20 August 1996

    To Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA with new c/r N40245.

    Markings Applied: 136483

    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX40245 (P-40E, 1038) issued.

    23 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited in Hall 1 of the Yanks Air Museum at Chino, California.

    17 January 2018

    To Charles F. Nichols Trustee, Baldwin Park, CA keeping c/r N40245.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    Canadian Military Aircraft Serial Numbers by Brian Walker
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Warbird Registry by Scott Rose
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
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