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    Airframe Family: Curtiss 81/P-40 Tomahawk / 87/P-40 Kittyhawk/Warhawk
    Latest Model:P-40N-35-CU Warhawk
    Last Military Serial:44-7619 USAAF
    Construction Number:33359
    Last Civil Registration:N222SU
    Compressed ID:Curtiss P-40N-35-CU sn 44-7619 USAA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-40N-35-CU by Curtiss at Buffalo, NY.

    1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 44-7619.

    From 1944 to 1945

    Transferred to 407th Fighter Squadron, 372nd Fighter Group, Esler and Pollock Fields, LA.
    Replacement Training Unit.

    1945

    To Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

    From 1946 to 1950

    To Chowchilla Union High School, Chowchilla, CA with new c/r N5038V.
    Used as instructional airframe.

    From 1950 to 1952

    To Carroll M. Collier, Chowchilla, CA keeping c/r N5038V.
    Used as car yard display.

    22 August 1952

    Civil registration, N5038V, cancelled.

    1952

    To George Mokski/Avia-Union, Montebello, CA with new c/r N5038V.

    1954

    To Avia-Union, Montebello, CA with new c/r N1251N {1}.
    Adopted id of crashed P-40E N1251N, c/n 18757.

    From 1954 to 1959

    Withdrawn from use.
    Open storage Fullerton CA. Modified as racer with F-80 canopy but not flown.

    From November 1959 to 1972

    To Edward T. Maloney/Air Museum, Ontario, CA with new c/r N1251N {1}.

    1971

    Transported by ground.
    To Addison, TX. Stored dismantled.

    1972

    To Frank Sanders, Long Beach, CA keeping c/r N1251N {1}.

    1973

    To Suzanne Parish, Kalamazoo, MI with new c/r N222SU.

    From 1973 to 1976

    Restored.
    Restored in Long Beach, CA using parts from 44-6519.

    Circa 1974


    Photographer: Dick Phillips Warbird Images Col.

    November 1975


    Photographer: Gary Maisack
    Notes: Frank Sanders hangar, Long Beach Airport, CA

    31 March 1976


    Photographer: James Appleby
    Notes: Film processed April 76. Photographed at Sanders Long Beach facility. Frank and Suzanne preparing for a ride

    30 April 1976

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL222SU (CURTISS P-40N, 44-7619) issued.

    1976

    First post-restoration Flight.

    1976


    Photographer: Unknown

    Markings Applied: USAAC 47619
    Marked as aircraft in the 9th Air Force operating in North Africa.

    18 January 1978

    To Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, Portage, MI keeping c/r N222SU.

    8 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This P-40N Warhawk was on display at the 1978 Confederate Air Force Airshow at Harlingen, Texas.

    Based at Air Zoo, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    31 July 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    3 August 1987


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: At Oshkosh Airventure

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At EAA Oshkosh.

    19 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

    17 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

    24 September 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    24 September 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    24 April 2015

    Civil registration, N222SU, cancelled.

    To Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Hawks Nest
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall

    Individual Contributors
    Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger

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