Dates

Event

Constructed as a P-39N-5-BE.

Circa 1942

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-19027.

1944

Abandoned.
Left at Tadji, Papua New Guinea, a Japanese airfield that was liberated by the US Army on April 26, 1944. Tadji became A major Allied air depot.

28 May 1944

Photographer: Charles M. Daniels Collection
Notes: Little Sir Echo - heads a line of P-39 Aircobras abandoned at Tadji, Papua New Guinea, a Japanese airfield that was liberated by the US Army, a few weeks prior to this photo

1974

Recovered.
Retrieved for Yesterdays Air Force by E. C. Darby and N. M. Armstrong for YAF from Tadji, West Sepik, Papua Nui Guinea.

In the inventory of Yesterdays Air Force/David C. Tallichet, Long Beach, CA.
View the Location Dossier

1986

Photographer: Nate Wilburn

1987

Transported by ground.
Moved from Chino, CA, to Tacoma, WA.

1987

To Museum Aeronautica/Frederick A. Johnson, Tacoma, WA.

Markings Applied: Little SIR ECHO

From 1987 to 2003

Restored.
Returned to flight condition. The work was carried out by Clover Park Tech College of Tacoma, WA.

This airframe is often mistaken for another airframe recovered by Tallichet in the past and is in the Planes of Fame collection, USAAF s/n 42-4949.
For more information about this other airframe see this Airframe Dossier