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    Airframe Family: Boeing B100 / F4B / P-12
    Latest Model:100
    Construction Number:1143
    Last Civil Registration:N872H
    Compressed ID:Boeing 100 cn 1143 cr N872H
    Latest Owner or Location:Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington

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    Dates

    Event

    1 July 1929

    Constructed as a 100.

    1929

    To Pratt (and) Whitney, Hartford, CT with new c/r NX872H.
    Aircraft was used as an engine test bed and tested at least four engine models.

    From 1933 to 1941

    To Milo Burcham, Long Beach, CA with new c/r NR872H.
    Stunt and air show pilot. He also used this plane in movies.

    1941

    To unknown owner with c/r NC872H.

    From 1948 to 1965

    To Paul Mantz, Balboa Island, CA with new c/r N872H.
    Well-known motion picture stunt pilot. This plane appeared in many movies. Killed in 1965 while flying for the movie Flight of the Phoenix.

    Circa 1965

    Placed on display with Tallman-Mantz Museum, Orange County Airport, Santa Ana, CA.
    3-F-7
    Marked as Navy F4B-1.

    1968

    To unknown owner with c/r N872H.
    Sold at auction to unknown person.

    1968

    Restoration started.

    1976

    To Lew Wallick, Bellevue, WA and Robert Mucklestone, Seattle, WA keeping c/r N872H.

    1977

    Restoration completed.
    Markings Applied: 3, U.S.Army Boeing P-12 A.C. 29-354
    The aircraft was restored to flyable condition and painted as Air Corps P-12.

    Circa 1977


    Photographer: Charlene Aro
    Notes: Photographed at Watsonville, CA.

    Flew airshow circuits, winning awards at Oshkosh in 1979.

    21 January 1987

    To Museum of Flight Foundation, Seattle, WA keeping c/r N872H.

    21 January 1987

    Placed on display with Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA.
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    November 1987


    Photographer: jm Bryant
    Notes: Museum of Flight, Boeing Field, Seattle, Washington

    13 August 1994


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    Circa 2000


    Photographer: Brandon Kunicki
    Notes: Photographed at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.

    29 June 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 Photo taken in the Great Gallery at Museum of Flight, Seattle
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