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    Airframe Family: Curtiss 81/P-40 Tomahawk / 87/P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk
    Latest Model:Kittyhawk I
    Last Military Serial:1084 RCAF
    Construction Number:28370
    Last Civil Registration:N62435
    Compressed ID:Curtiss Kittyhawk I sn 1084 RCAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Kittyhawk I.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n AL171.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1084.

    16 April 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX62435 (P-40E, 28370) issued.

    To Miami International Airport, Miami, FL.
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    Markings Applied: 1084

    19 February 1982

    To Weeks Air Museum Inc, Polk City, FL with new c/r N62435.

    19 February 1982

    To Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N62435.

    9 March 1985


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: At Titusville, Florida

    4 March 1990


    Photographer: Nigel Roling
    Notes: N62453 42-8370 (ex RCAF 1084 AL171) Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk 1A at Tamiami 4-3-90

    Contracted to Cal Pacific Airmotive Inc, Salinas Municipal Airport (SNS), Salinas, CA for work on the airframe.
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    Based at Fantasy of Flight/Kermit A. Weeks, Polk City, FL.
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    26 September 2011

    To Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N62435.

    1 January 2016

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX62435 (P-40E, 28370) issued.

    Circa 1 January 2016

    To Weeks Air Museum Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N62435.

    6 May 2016

    To Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection Inc, Polk City, FL keeping c/r N62435.

    Circa 17 March 2024


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed in storage at Cal Pacific Airmotive in Salinas, CA.

    Circa 17 March 2024


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed in storage at Cal Pacific Airmotive in Salinas, CA.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
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