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    Airframe Family: Curtiss 81/P-40 Tomahawk / 87/P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk
    Latest Model:Kittyhawk I
    Last Military Serial:1052 RCAF
    Construction Number:15376
    Last Civil Registration:N40PE
    Compressed ID:Curtiss Kittyhawk I sn 1052 RCAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Lucillo A. Frasca, Urbana, IL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Kittyhawk I.

    1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n AK905.
    Most likely not taken on strength with RAF, rather a paper acceptance to provide to the RCAF.

    6 November 1941

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 1052.

    6 November 1941

    Transferred to 111 (F) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, ON.
    Operated with markings: LZ-D

    14 December 1941

    Base of operations changed.
    RCAF Sea Island, Vancouver.

    18 February 1942

    Base of operations changed.
    RCAF Patricia Bay, BC.

    From 1942 to 1943

    111 (F) was attached to the 343rd Fighter Group, USAAF as part of RCAF X-Wing operating against Japanese.

    From 1942 to 1943

    This aircraft did not get much used due to undergoing continuing repairs.

    Circa 1944

    Transferred to 133 (F) Squadron, RCAF Patricia Bay, BC.
    Operated with markings: LZ-G

    16 August 1946

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

    To Bob Warden, Vulcan, AB.
    Stored on farm.

    From 1962 to 1968

    To Robert J. Warden, Calgary, AB with new c/r CF-OGZ.

    From 1968 to 1972

    To William D. Ross, Chicago, IL with new c/r N11122.

    From 1972 to 1976

    To Don J. Plumb, Windsor, ON keeping c/r N11122.

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 474850, 40

    26 April 1976

    To Max R. Hoffman, Fort Collins, CO keeping c/r N11122.

    2 December 1976

    To Rudolf A. Frasca DBA, Champaign, IL with new c/r N40PE.

    Markings Applied: 474850, 47

    9 September 1978


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: In Galesburg, IL.

    31 July 1979


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1979 photo at Oshkosh of a Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk

    9 April 1980

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX40PE (P-40E, AK905) issued.

    6 September 1980


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Aurora, IL

    6 September 1980


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    6 July 1985


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Dixon, IL

    Operated by Frasca Air Museum, Frasca Field, Champaign, IL.
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    15 January 1997

    To Rudolf A. Frasca DBA, Champaign, IL keeping c/r N40PE.

    1 January 2009

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX40PE (P-40E, AK905) issued.

    25 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    26 October 2015

    To Rudolf A. Frasca DBA, Urbana, IL keeping c/r N40PE.

    27 July 2018


    Photographer: Mario Richard
    Notes: Oshkosh

    10 April 2021

    To Lucillo A. Frasca, Urbana, IL keeping c/r N40PE.


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    Canadian Warplanes by Harold A. Skaarup
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Hawks Nest
    RCAF No. 111 (F) Squadron RCAF
    Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield

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